LOS ANGELES - Terree Bowers, a widely respected former U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and war-crimes prosecutor, will be the chi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Russian programmer has been arrested, accused of distributing a program that defeats copyright protection on...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co. has sued the state, seeking millions of dollars in exchange for the bundle of ene...

LOS ANGELES - As the international convention of Hotel Employees and Restaurant Employees Union got under way Tuesday in Santa...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new state law requiring legal counsel for children in dependency proceedings will tax already overworked fam...

Construction defect cases involving residential real estate are the result of broken homes. It is a product placed into the st...

A lawyer is just wasting time if deposition questions do not elicit useful information. Attorneys need deposition flight plans...

'Bartnicki' addresses the situation in which a newsroom receives something from unknown sources that editors recognize as auth...

Senior attorneys in the job market must be prepared for questions about their client base. ...

LOS ANGELES - The family of criminal-defense attorney Barry L. Levin, a former Los Angeles police officer, has established a m...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the corner of Pasteur Avenue and a dirt road, in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the green and red "Un...

Immunity often is considered the most desirable of defenses because it is 'an entitlement not to stand trial or face the other...

Any day now, a U.S. appeals court in Texas could decide in U.S. v. Emerson whether to invalidate a federal statute on S...

LOS ANGELES - Stung by a $295,000 settlement to a man who claimed he was falsely imprisoned by deputies on a botched drug stak...

SAN FRANCISCO - Has California become too SLAPP-happy? Division Two of the San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal se...

SAN FRANCISCO - A month after Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's last labor and employment practice head died suddenly in the fi...

The ampersand is elegant and difficult to write, which lends an exalted quality to a firm name. ...

SAN JOSE - In a legal victory for the notorious motorcycle club, a federal judge has ruled authorities lacked probable cause t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The chairman of the state's Independent System Operator, one of Gov. Gray Davis' top advisers on the energy cr...

LOS ANGELES - I'm apparently not supposed to know this, but late last week Rafael Perez, the cocaine-stealing LAPD officer who...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington st...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Internal Revenue Service program that helps international companies abide by agency rules will set up its ...

BIG SKY, Mont. - Boosting federal judicial pay and a potential increase in hourly rates paid to appointed criminal lawyers dre...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Susan Creigton, one of the country's most outspoken critics of Mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the behest of Attorney General Bill Lockyer, lawmakers have undertaken the first significant changes to Pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a male Washing...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday dismissed eavesdropping and conspiracy to commit eavesdropping charges against Glend...

Harriet Welch, managing partner for the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, isn't sure where the rumors abou...

Edison International's independent power producer, Edison Mission Energy, through its holding company Mission Energy Holding, ...