RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A San Bernardino County judge Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction barring the Upland Police Departme...

SAN DIEGO - Fulfilling an unusual plea-bargain condition, an avowed white supremacist privately apologized Wednesday to the co...

LOS ANGELES - Three religious groups and a former parole board chairman filed an amicus brief Wednesday supporting convicted m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman will be the next Bay Area law firm to unveil a big-ticket national branding campaign. And while ...

WASHINGTON - Jailhouse lawyers have no special First Amendment right to communicate with fellow inmates about their cases, a u...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require private arbitrators to comply with the same disclosure, disqualification requirements a...

SACRAMENTO - Following a suspenseful hearing, the judge in a dispute over $88.5 million in legal fees on Wednesday gave lawyer...

SACRAMENTO - Several Republican state lawmakers announced Wednesday they have introduced a bill to give tax credits to attorne...

LOS ANGELES - The mighty U.S. Supreme Court, which last year decided the outcome of the presidential election, may be preparin...

WASHINGTON - White challengers to heavily minority voting districts can prevail only if they can show legislators drew the dis...

SAN BERNARDINO - Fifteen-year-old Steven Allen Edgar was killed when he was ejected from the back seat of a Ford Explorer that...

LOS ANGELES - During a special session today, Los Angeles' Ethics Commission may press for legislation requiring political gro...

Although some think that bad publicity about the Ford Explorer's exploding tires could make defending Ford product liability c...

President George W. Bush touted his recent White House meeting with a hand-picked group of African-American ministers, farmers...

It was business unusual among last year's Top 10 defense cases. While corporate contract matters dominated the list, only one ...

With the plunk of an oil drill on the floor of the ocean, a controversy erupted on the land up above. It started with Lloyd's ...

In a nutshell, a final summation of the Top 10 defense cases of 2000. ...

In Silicon Valley, big tech breakthroughs can spell big damage demands in litigation. And that's how defense counsel sees a re...

Litigation over issues related to inadequate child support payments is widespread in California. The surprise is that technolo...

It started with a dripping waterspout that turned into a puddle big enough to drown a toy retailer's chance of hitting the big...

LOS ANGELES - Geoffrey Gaidos, an attorney in the Los Angeles office of Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker, died Sund...

On a raw night in San Francisco, the screams of three firefighters trapped in a burning building could not be heard. Melanie S...

When National Semiconductor gobbled up Cyrix Corp., it gave shareholders $240 million worth of heartburn. But they got no reli...

SANTA ANA - The sole holdout in a vote to settle a book-banning lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union against ...

Aaron Epstein owns a piece of real estate in the Hollywood area of Los Angeles. When the city in 1998 expanded the Hollywood E...

Vantive Corp. looked like a sure bet. The customer-service software developer went public in August 1995 at $6 a share. Rapid ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frederick D. Smith, the first black attorney to be hired as a San Francisco public defender and to serve as th...

RIVERSIDE - A judge has dismissed a lawsuit filed by former Riverside County Public Defender Margaret Spencer, who alleged she...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chanler, a controversial plaintiffs lawyer who helped pioneer the aggressive pursuit of Proposition 6...

LOS ANGELES - After 13 months, Zhang Hongbao, founder of Zhong Gong, a highly popular meditative discipline that China has bra...