LOS ANGELES - Respected career prosecutor Stephen Kay, who has successfully prosecuted several high-profile murder cases, will...

SAN FRANCISCO - The ax has finally fallen in the Silicon Valley. After months of rumors about bad times at the Valley's bigge...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has thrown out the murder conviction in a grisly Salinas triple slaying because police detecti...

LOS ANGELES - Foley & Lardner has opened a second office in the San Diego area to better serve the needs of its clients, t...

Requests for time off from work under the Family and Medical Leave Act (29 U.S.C. Section 2601 et seq.) raise several vexing i...

SAN DIEGO - After a decadelong battle over a mountaintop cross, a federal appellate court has upheld the legitimacy of a sale ...

The court also suggested that in certain circumstances, a promotion could constitute a reasonable accommodation under the stat...

The old adage about the relationship between lawyers and their secretaries being like a marriage is true. Unfortunately, stati...

The air, thankfully, is going out of the tires on the plaintiffs' bar's quest for legislation to eliminate legitimate confiden...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge's refusal to grant a new trial for Hera, one of the attack dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a Pac...

In Catling v. Bowling , King's Bench, Easter Term, 26 George II, 96 E.R. 810; 1 Sayer 80 (1753), Chief Justice Sir Will...

LOS ANGELES - Further challenging the safety of an obstetrical vacuum used during childbirth, an Orange County couple has sued...

SAN BERNARDINO - A Victorville public defender has alleged that the district attorney's office failed to disclose to defense a...

SAN FRANCISCO - The bitter battle over who will get five of the late Jerry Garcia's famed guitars apparently will continue aft...

LOS ANGELES - A woman who claims a California Highway Patrol officer told her that she had nice legs and offered to be her "ol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pelican Bay inmate Paul "Cornfed" Schneider claims the former Pelican Bay guard who is due to go on trial next...

LOS ANGELES - Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, Glaser, Weil & Shapiro may ask the California Supreme Court to reinstate ...

LOS ANGELES - A prominent plaintiffs' lawyer on Wednesday accused U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of displaying extreme bia...

PALO ALTO - It was, according to attorneys who know him well, a classic Tom Nolan moment: passionate, confrontational and, per...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court will be keeping a closer eye on attorneys who miss filing deadlines in death pena...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether a Sylmar woman acquitted at trial should also ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco criminal defense attorney who was secretly tape-recorded by Contra Costa County Sheriff's depu...

LOS ANGELES - Six years ago, a man raped a 14-year-old girl in a busy area near Crenshaw Boulevard and Imperial Highway in Ing...

Mark Weidmann found himself in the unexpected position of resurrecting his case from the dead after a judge granted the defend...

A disturbing lawsuit treating a scientific disagreement as an actionable tort will meet a quick, justified end if a recent Sou...

LOS ANGELES - A Santa Monica lawyer is facing charges that he helped a client accused by federal regulators of deceptive trade...

This is my first technology obituary. On Friday, Aug. 3, 2001, Metricom Corp. announced it was shutting down the Ricochet comm...

LOS ANGELES - The discovery of a suspicious package outside the Los Angeles County Courthouse led authorities to evacuate seve...

REDWOOD CITY - San Mateo County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a new five-year contract with the county bar ...

LOS ANGELES - Norman Haskell Sokolow, a retired deputy attorney general who worked on some of the most high-profile appellate ...