By Chris Ford When Q. Todd Dickinson took over as acting commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in January, he ...

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By Garry Abrams After a couple of years of relative quiet, the legal saga of Beverly Hills-based Death Row Records may be ent...

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^^International Law^^ Trading Places New regulations governing where encryption technology may be exported make it more impor...

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SAN FRANCISCO - A little-used police tactic that became key evidence in last week's conviction of two murder suspects will be...

By Gerald G. Knapton When I was a new associate I came in early, left late and often worked weekends to stay afloat. But no m...

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By Jennifer Byrd California tax lawyers will no longer have to suffer taxation without representation - at least for a year. ...

A former legal assistant at Lynberg & Watkins claims in a sexual harassment lawsuit that she was forced to quit because o...

SAN JOSE - A San Mateo County judge has ruled that the identity of a key witness in a Billionaire Boys Club murder case shoul...

SAN FRANCISCO - Revisiting a dispute left over from Gov. Pete Wilson's administration, a panel of the State Bar Board of Gove...

Prosecutors have responded to a defense motion to dismiss a $119,000 embezzlement case involving two former Los Angeles Munic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Comparing San Francisco's lawsuit against the gun industry to the legal excesses of the Third Reich, lawyers ...

Working alongside his father as a teen-ager, helping to build such things as missile silos and the Century Plaza Hotel, it is...

SACRAMENTO - Two inmates plan to allege in a lawsuit to be filed today that state corrections officials violated their civil ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Increasing potential liability for bad job references, a federal appeals court has ruled that a sheriff who p...

Last-minute efforts to help a frightened 15-year-old girl - who wants to remain in the United States but was ordered returned...

Aesthetic Appeal Ornamentation Can Make Obvious Inventions Nonobvious By Charles R. Sutton One patent battleground is the req...

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Lawyers representing the British maker of electronic identification chips and attorneys for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer squar...

SAN DIEGO - Nobody who encounters Lance L. Holgate would leave with the impression that he has trouble expressing himself. Ho...

Lt. Col. Cyril C. Stanfield, a medical malpractice defense litigator and decorated Air Force Reserve pilot, died Sunday at Ri...

SAN BERNARDINO - A convicted murderer and rapist who told his attorney that he was taking legal advice from the spirit of a d...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the state's leading defenders of accused judges strongly criticized the Commission on Judicial Perform...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation creating a streamlined State Bar of California to replace the entity brought to the brink of destruc...

A federal appeals court revived a class-action suit Thursday by a former Oregon prison inmate who was subjected to government...

As the winner in a year-long battle with state disciplinary authorities, appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline says that if he c...