SAN FRANCISCO - The arraignment of lawyers Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel in the dog-mauling death of a San Francisco woman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cities must comply with the state's basic environmental law - a requirement that may require the preparation o...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has selected five new magistrate judges. Four of ...

By Amy Bentley Special to the Nevada Journal There is a way to have fun with - and capitalize on - stupidity, and Wendy North...

* Commentary * By Ward Harris With the recent upheaval in the investment markets and many workers feeling a little less wealt...

Technology companies Proxim Inc. and Netopia Inc. have called off their merger agreement, but their lawyers say the two plan t...

LOS ANGELES - While Oscar De La Hoya bloodied his opponent in a Las Vegas boxing ring last Saturday night, his attorneys were ...

During the last decade, several widely publicized employment-discrimination lawsuits have alerted employers to the cold, hard ...

Gilman Louie is on a mission to bring the world's top intelligence agency out of the shadows and into the digital age. There i...

The state of Florida's continued reliance on obsolete election technology and equipment was like the belief that an iceberg co...

Companies that are the targets of anonymous criticism on the Internet are fighting back - in court. One message board particip...

BARSTOW - The pit bull that mauled and killed a Newberry Springs boy last year was so vicious that its caretaker often had to ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has ruled a talent agent waited too long to sue a record company for allegedly conspirin...

LOS ANGELES - The Internet is like an orange grove in Hemet. After the trees finally bear fruit, freeloaders come along and st...

NEWPORT BEACH - Orange County prosecutors want a newspaper reporter to testify about his interview with an Anaheim woman charg...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly indicated it will rule that organizations providing marijuana to seriousl...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Quentin Kopp thinks federal judges should play by the same rules binding...

SAN FRANCISCO - By the narrowest of margins, the California Supreme Court voted Wednesday not to review controversial state re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying the Constitution protects even extreme rhetoric, a federal appeals court Wednesday threw out a $107 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Tracy attorney has sued the San Francisco Business Times for libel, alleging an article printed by the publi...

The deposition is one of the most basic tasks a litigator performs. You show up, ask some questions, the witness answers, ever...

SAN JOSE - The hot potato that is the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case was tossed Wednesday to Santa Clara County Super...

Arguments against effective anti-poverty programs are often thinly disguised as supposed policy statements. For instance, in "...

Everyone has their own dreams of role reversal - of turning the tables, of calling the shots instead of being shot at. The inm...

LOS ANGELES - An escrow company that paid the wrong lien holder in a title transaction is not liable to the holding company th...

WESTMINSTER - The mayor of Huntington Beach admitted Wednesday that the city unlawfully polluted its Old Town and downtown are...

SAN DIEGO - The former assistant general manager of a San Diego County water district must stand trial on charges arising from...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop is banking on the recovery of Japan's slumping markets. The firm has added ...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors in the attempted-murder case against former Symbionese Liberation Army member Sara Jane Olson on Wed...

President George W. Bush's announcement that he no longer will have the American Bar Association evaluate judicial nominees is...