SAN FRANCISCO - In a ruling that casts doubt over the validity of dozens of prenuptial agreements, a state appeal court Monda...

SACRAMENTO - As Gov. Gray Davis huddled with advisers last week on whether to defend Proposition 187 in court, one question l...

Attorneys and support staff who claim they are being paid less and receiving fewer benefits because the Los Angeles County co...

By Chris Ford While the number of patents issued annually in the United States has doubled since 1988, a recent spate of cour...

In 1977, Mattel had a very big problem. It was embroiled in a patent dispute over the technology for one of its top-selling pr...

The recent dissolutions of Jackson Tufts Cole & Black and Bronson Bronson & McKinnon - two San Francisco firms known ...

By Leslie A. Gordon On a Wednesday night in March, at San Francisco's trendy Museum of Modern Art, Tower Snow, chairman of Br...

Acknowledging they charged the wrong person, Los Angeles County prosecutors have dismissed an armed robbery case against form...

A company hired nearly six years ago to do construction at the Hyperion Wastewater Treatment Plant has filed a lawsuit agains...

SACRAMENTO - Six years ago, the California Supreme Court handed the plaintiffs' bar a major defeat by limiting liability expo...

SACRAMENTO - On-again, off-again plans to link child support enforcement programs in all 58 counties through a single statewi...

A judge's ruling that Los Angeles prosecutors should have been more diligent in gathering, and disclosing, information about ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Dec. 24, 1969, was a slow news day, so a federal court hearing in San Francisco drew intense press attention ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In what would be the largest federal criminal penalty paid for health-care fraud in Northern California, biot...

A 55-year-old man from Egypt who worked for the MTA for 23 years has been awarded more than $5.6 million in damages in his la...

SAN JOSE - Arguing that Santa Clara County prosecutors may be hiding due process violations behind a veil of secrecy, defense...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court held Thursday that a kidnapping can be charged even if the victim is moved only ...

A former associate at Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has sued the firm for wrongful termination, claiming she was fired fo...

OAKLAND - Feeling snubbed by Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown, a group of parents and their lawyers who are suing the city's school ...

The ACLU Foundation of Southern California honored 10 Los Angeles-area lawyers Thursday for their efforts in protecting civil...

Responding to a "mind-boggling," ever-growing wave of cybercrime , Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti this wee...

SUNNYVALE - C. Randall Schneider remembers a time when he abhorred listening to defendants. When hearing criminal matters, th...

SACRAMENTO - As investigators try to piece together what caused the February explosion that killed four workers and injured a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a case that could affect competition among many large and small businesses, the California Supreme ...

RIVERSIDE - Riverside County Superior Court Judge William H. Sullivan has asked to be reassigned from his position as probate...

An appellate court has denied a European insurance company's appeal of a ruling that California has jurisdiction over bad-fai...

A judge Wednesday dismissed a whistle-blower lawsuit against former Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark over crime-scene ph...

SAN JOSE - Over several years on the bench in Santa Clara County's juvenile court, Superior Court Judge Read Ambler saw many ...

A Los Angeles law firm is accused of not paying a headhunter service that claims it is owed about $48,000 for placing two att...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local municipalities signing to dubious development projects and well-heeled municipal bond underwriters that...