One of the region's most prominent and popular criminal defense attorneys was sentenced Wednesday to eight months in a commun...

Barry Diller, the former potentate of Paramount Studios, the founder of Fox network and the man who transformed the Home Shop...

A former U.S. postal worker who claims the sheriff's department violated her privacy by telling her boss that she had been ar...

Civil rights attorney Hugh R. Manes filed a malicious prosecution lawsuit against a former client and the client's attorney, ...

SAN JOSE - Congress is stepping into the year-2000 computer litigation threat with a bill designed to limit liability from Y2...

A woman convicted nearly a year ago of the grisly 1995 Mother's Day slayings of two women in a Universal Studios CityWalk par...

RIVERSIDE - "Ludicrous." "Blackmail." That's how representatives of Inland Empire gun manufacturers characterize the barrage ...

WASHINGTON - Hearing a high-stakes case from California, the Supreme Court next week will consider a major issue affecting th...

SACRAMENTO - California's prison system is bulging with repeat sex offenders because the state makes little effort to rehabil...

What are the odds someone who scores in the 99th percentile the first time he takes the Law School Admissions Test will drop ...

The number of excessive force lawsuits filed against the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department steadily declined in the 1990s unde...

Two white-collar criminal defense lawyers have left Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton for Chicago-based Mc...

SAN FRANCISCO - Barry Munitz, former chancellor of the California State University system who headed Gov. Gray Davis' transit...

In response to a request from the Board of Police Commissioners, Inspector General Deirdre Hill issued a preliminary report T...

SAN FRANCISCO - When professor Pamela Samuelson of Boalt Hall School of Law lunched recently with high-tech venture capitalis...

SACRAMENTO - Too many of the mentally ill are incarcerated in jails and prisons throughout California, according to their adv...

Former Black Panther Geronimo Pratt, freed after serving 27 years in prison for a murder he says he did not commit, won anoth...

The painful legal odyssey of a Gardena mother of four, whose two youngest boys were taken from her and placed in foster care ...

Attorneys in the public defender's office will be able to video-conference with their clients at jails throughout the county ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Franciscans - rather than, for example, residents of Charlotte, N.C. - will have a chance at deciding whe...

Accountability is what makes leaders and heroes, former U.S. Sen. Robert Dole told a gathering of civil defense attorneys in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like champagne too long uncorked, Napa County's sparkling image as a leafy sanctuary from urban woes is turni...

Beverly Hills attorney Allan Browne, with his bright blue eyes and dimpled smile, seems to be cut out for television. In fact...

SACRAMENTO - In a policy shift, the California District Attorneys Association will add its voice to the push for a new law ma...

A product liability complaint was filed recently to prevent dismissal of any unknown defendants that might be linked to a med...

SEATTLE - A litigation boutique and perhaps some midsized firms may rise from the ashes of Bogle & Gates, which is schedu...

SAN JOSE - Patent counsel are applauding an announcement by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office that by next summer it will ...

WASHINGTON - A controversial new law requiring federal prosecutors to abide by state bar ethics rules is facing a legislative...

SAN FRANCISCO - Her father tried to warn Linda Mabry not to accept a job offer from Stanford Law School and to steer her inst...

WASHINGTON - U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., announced Thursday that she would vote against conviction and removal of P...