LOS ANGELES - A lawyer repeatedly sent threatening e-mail messages to opposing counsel after losing a price-fixing class actio...

SAN FRANCISCO - A settlement of an important Central Valley agriculture case that could come soon will help clear the way for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's three-year-old legal dispute over its business-tax framework will reach a critical point today when...

LOS ANGELES - In the wake of San Francisco-based utility Pacific Gas and Electric's bankruptcy filing, the state's bankruptcy ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The rare reversal of a murder conviction last week by a sharply divided 1st District Court of Appeal panel rev...

SAN FRANCISCO - The stunning decision by Pacific Gas & Electric Co. to seek bankruptcy protection rather than a political ...

The food and the decor at the hundreds of eateries owned by restaurant chain Buffets Inc. haven't changed in the last year - a...

Despite the common perception that the federal government seeks only the acquisition of big-ticket items, such as rocket engin...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles' Munger Tolles & Olson has added renowned legal scholar Lawrence Lessig to its 150-attorney rost...

In these days when biotechnology and high-tech companies live and die based on the breadth of their intellectual property port...

Affirmative action has been back in the news and the subject of talk shows and student demonstrations since University of Cali...

Members of the criminal-defense profession have long recognized the extraordinary achievements of Clara Shortridge Foltz, the ...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Harold "Hal" Rosenberg, Van Nuys criminal defense attorney and former president of...

Pharmaceutical giant Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has dropped its appeal of a case it brought against an Irvine-based manufacturer...

Every weekday, with the exception of election-snafu litigation, which seems to flourish on the weekends, many of us litigators...

Merely possessing a registered trademark no longer will secure a domain name incorporating the mark. ...

The motion to strike, a small but powerful cross-examination tool, too often is ignored by trial counsel. ...

LOS ANGELES - The state's energy crisis has not yet translated to higher bills or crippling blackouts for the county's legal t...

LOS ANGELES - Two former assistant U.S. attorneys have joined the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners' civilian watchdog...

LOS ANGELES - Two teen-agers indicted as adults in the May killing of a Glendale High School athlete will return to Juvenile C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Injured motorists who are uninsured cannot collect pain-and-suffering damages from cities and counties for ne...

LOS ANGELES - In a lawsuit filed Thursday against the entertainment channel, the girls, represented by attorney Gloria Allred,...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Thursday awarded $64.5 million to an Anaheim defense contractor that claimed its business partner...

Internet media titan Yahoo! Inc. of Santa Clara announced Thursday that it is getting into the often-murky world of online dig...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to review the patentability of seeds and other living things.

Throughout the nation, drug testing has become increasingly prevalent in recent years as employers seek additional protection ...

At one time dot-com executives were shelling out company shares like it was Monopoly money, and lawyers were gobbling them up....

WASHINGTON - Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg's "No. 1 love" is not the law - it's opera. The justice proclaimed her passion in a r...

Marco is a thief. Marco is a doper. Amazing how that combination seems to run together. With a habit to feed that runs to a $1...

Imagine that your client contemplates entering into an industrial or commercial lease for which the leased premises constitute...