A former executive of a San Diego-based biotechnology firm admitted to manipulating the data for a new prenatal Down syndrome ...

San Bernardino County's district attorney's and public defender's offices are considering laying off 20 employees and eliminat...

A coalition of environmentalists and water suppliers launched a legal challenge to a deal signed by state water regulators and...

Under a proposal unveiled Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, companies and inventors would be able to get a muc...

A federal judge here has approved a settlement that helps the homeless with disabilities by maintaining for at least two years...

Mark Litvack, an entertainment lawyer who led a crackdown on piracy while serving as a director of legal affairs at the Motion...

Edwin Reeser debuts his series of driving guides to popular road racing courses. ...

Ten years into litigation over the Boy Scouts' deal with San Diego granting them land use rights in Mission Bay Park and Balbo...

Mark Neubauer of Steptoe & Johnson says the latest political fad here in California threatens democracy as we know it. ...

If mediation is an arthroscopic procedure and trial is major surgery, Judge Patricia Collins is a doctor who's operated in bot...

Entertainment executive Ben Silverman, who as a young television agent helped sell the U.S. rights for the hit game show "Who...

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, often categorized as too liberal and out of sync with the more cons...

Danny Davis made his name as an indefatigable criminal defense lawyer who beat back heinous charges against an accused child m...

After years as a fierce advocate as an attorney for the poor, Santa Clara Judge Diane Ritchie is learning to step back and obs...

Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health announced a first-of-its-kind settlement Wednesday with 40 major retailers over ...

The massive antitrust multidistrict class action against makers of Static Random Access Memory computer devices is set for a s...

Two more attorneys have been placed on inactive status as the result of a State Bar dragnet focused on loan modification fraud...

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday tore into District Attorney Kamala Harris over her recent efforts to ma...

Law enforcers took a $1.75 million bite out of PETCO Animal Supplies Inc. to settle penalties and costs from a civil case alle...

The American Bar Association will honor Kenneth Babcock, who heads the Orange County-based Public Law Center, at its upcoming ...

James A. Ardaiz, the administrative presiding justice of the 5th District Court of Appeal whose artistic vision led to the lim...

Departing U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen Hewitt has signed on as a partner in the San Diego offic...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that companies being held liable for groundwater contamination in the San Gabriel ...

Lawyers representing Toyota Motor Corp. have employed a tough-as-nails discovery strategy in the past that has drawn fines, sa...

Scores of lawsuits against British Petroleum and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have already been fi...

A terminated employee proceeds to trial on claims that her employer interfered and retaliated against her right to take medica...

Damon Rubin says a recent California Supreme Court case will guide attorneys and courts in applying the commercial speech exem...

Tim Tosta of Luce Forward reflects on the world of a lawyer, which is at times, shockingly brutal. ...

In "The War on Terror and the Laws of War," six legal scholars with experience as military officers apply their unique experti...