SAN FRANCISCO - Large oil companies can be sued for the release of the controversial fuel additive MTBE into underground water...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense lawyer Maureen Kallins was contumacious, unprofessional and disrespectful to U.S. District Court Judge...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles police union attorneys on Friday expressed cautious optimism about District Attorney Steve Cooley's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For the first time within the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a panel has ruled that a new Supreme Court ru...

SAN FRANCISCO - An isolated, 14-acre plot of ground just over a large brown hill from the stressed-out bustle of the capital o...

LOS ANGELES - Just after Gov. Gray Davis took office in 1999, a diverse group of lawyers confronted his judicial appointments ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C. Parks reversed his long-standing position Friday that he should b...

LOS ANGELES - With a federal investigation of the treatment of kids in juvenile detention facilities beginning in Los Angeles ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal appeals panel that has been pondering Napster Inc.'s future for nearly five months announced Frida...

As the economy has cooled, law firms once again are beefing up their bankruptcy departments for the anticipated onslaught of ...

The Solid Waste case has limited the jurisdiction of the Army Corps of Engineers in the area of wetlands protection.

The link between animal abuse and harm to humans was tragically illustrated by the Jan. 29 death of a 33-year-old woman in San...

LOS ANGELES - More Boalt Hall graduates passed the latest California Bar Exam the first time around than any other American Ba...

The 'Yahoo!' case shall have wide-ranging implications for the exercise of national jurisdiction internationally in the contex...

"Age matters." Paul Haas, a senior vice president at talent agency International Creative Management, made this comment in an ...

Steven Rothschild laughs when he thinks how much money it took to drive Furniture.com into the ground. "After $100 million, th...

Engineer Vincent Malgapo was shocked to arrive at work earlier this week and find that his former employer, Qualcomm, wants to...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael A. Kahn is becoming a very busy man. Already a name partner at his firm and a member of Gov. Gray Davi...

I've not seen much written about the fear of courtroom appearances. I'm thinking of the Hemingway version of fear - fear of no...

Rambus Inc.'s microprocessors have achieved worldwide popularity. From Japan to the United States, its devices appear in video...

LOS ANGELES - The federal judge presiding over the consent decree between the LAPD and the U.S. Justice Department questioned...

Although it seems that every other day another company shelves its initial public offering, one man is feeling positive about ...

Call it a belated holiday present. The U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Gitlitz v. Commissioner, 2001 Daily Journal D.A.R. 259...

The Court of Appeal in Kawasaki struggles to determine which standard for review to use. ...

The personal computer has been the growth engine for technology stocks for more than a decade. The earning season now unfoldin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Thursday allowed state officials to rope 18 school districts into an ambitious lawsui...

SACRAMENTO - Judge Darrel Lewis recently combined two of his favorite activities - skiing and performing weddings. Lewis offic...

In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, "ending welfare as...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar and a group of critics announced an agreement Wednesday to reform how the bar conducts its elect...

LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday delayed a decision on whether to allow sections of the schoo...