A legal malpractice lawsuit between attorneys who are active in the Orthodox Jewish community has pitted religious law agains...

If Roman M. Silberfeld were to list his victories during 25 years of practicing law, his resume of mass tort and personal inj...

SAN FRANCISCO - With hundreds of millions of dollars on the line, the long-delayed Genentech patent infringement trial opened...

A day after being tagged with a $45 million verdict for allegedly trying to destroy the reputation of a high-profile law and ...

A law firm has been sued for allegedly failing to tell its client, a jewelry company, that the neutral arbitrator presiding o...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino County Sheriff's officials said Monday they are seeking further information about a vehicle a...

SAN FRANCISCO - Landlord attorneys who thought they'd scored a landmark victory when a jury ruled against the tenants in an E...

A little fish that could be the subject of a big legal dispute has won a round with a federal judge's ruling that authorities...

A man who suffers from bipolar disorder was awarded $6.7 million Monday by a jury who found his landlords responsible for the...

Attorney Steven L. Mazza, who recently avoided a trial on criminal charges, has been sued in an unrelated matter for allegedl...

Twenty years ago, Los Angeles County prosecutors saw a murder case against a young man named Harry Rowley dismissed for lack ...

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 ...