SAN DIEGO - The federal magistrate judge considering sanctioning Qualcomm's former counsel for their roles in concealing a mas...

SAN FRANCISCO - In early November, San Francisco County Superior Court Judge John J. Conway will give himself a birthday presi...

Focus Column - By David B. Ritchie and Suvashis Bhattacharya - Nov. 1 marks the beginning of a spate of new patent rules. Navi...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to consider the city of Modesto's challenge to the California Voting Rig...

LOS ANGELES - Senate Majority Leader Gloria Romero faced off with Los Angeles Superior Court administrators and judges in a co...

SACRAMENTO - The Hopland Band of Pomo Indians is about to become the first tribe in California with an independent, full-fledg...

Forum Column - By Stan Goldman - President Bush's decision to oppose recognition of a resolution condemning the Armenian genoc...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a bid by Microsoft and Best Buy to stop a California man's class action...

Members of a state commission took Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to task on Monday after he rejected three bills the panel design...

SAN JOSE - In the largest settlement of a backdating securities fraud class action to date, Hewlett-Packard agreed Monday to p...

Has Microsoft sent in the "patent trolls" to do its dirty work? The software giant denies it, but some open-source software ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

The nature of modern ecological problems demands some solutions that are as big as the planet itself, according to a man being...

Mark Petersen is keenly aware of judicial temperament and places great weight on civility in the courtroom. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Corporate law firms have a tendency to follow three things wherever they go: clients, wealth and one another. ...

Web Exclusive - After 21 years on the San Francisco bench, Judge John Conway is calling it quits. ...

Industry Watch - By Devan McClaine - One look at the eclectic office of Richard Idell, and it is instantly apparent where his ...

Industry Watch - By Don J. DeBenedictis - Joseph G. Cavallo, the Irvine criminal defense attorney who rocketed to fame defendi...

Focus Column - By Robert D. Brownstone, Todd R. Gregorian and Michael A. Sands - Recently, both business and government have l...

Industry Watch - By Maya Meinert - Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has lured environmental litigator Peter Modlin away from San Fr...

Forum Column - By Michael Willemsen - California courts that have tried to skirt the question of whether registration for sex ...

Industry Watch - By Alexa Hyland - Attorney Eric Grodan is keenly aware of statistics showing that half of all adult Americans...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Dreier Stein & Kahan hired franchise law litigator David Laufer last week as partner ...

LOS ANGELES - A year after the surprise termination of Los Angeles County's litigation cost manager, a report shows the county...

LOS ANGELES - Both the American Civil Liberties Union and advocates for the homeless oppose the law enforcement crackdown on L...

Orphaned at 10, a runaway and a ward of the court in his teens, William J. Cox had just the right pedigree to champion the rig...

Not only did Broade Communications Systems Inc. lose a key battle Friday to defeat a class action over stock-options backdatin...

On the Move

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Victoria S. Kaufman finds fulfillment in helping people and companies cure their financial ills and get ...

In his role as public-policy director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, a privately funded civil liberties group, Ja...