Five years ago, federal judges figured out a way to create a level playing field in the competition to hire the best and brigh...

SACRAMENTO - Christopher Bray woke up one morning to find a $45 parking ticket stuffed under the windshield wiper of his 2001 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Jerry Brown and a major refiner Tuesday announced what Brown called the first-ever agreement ...

Focus Column - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - Should water providers be held just as liable as polluters when it comes to impuritie...

As both a lawyer and a real estate agent, Jeffrey Berns was more than qualified to answer his father’s questions about a loan ...

LOS ANGELES — County officials and child advocates are scrambling to ensure that hundreds of adoptions performed this year are...

Kathleen M. Sullivan, the constitutional scholar and former dean of Stanford Law School, is being dispatched to New York to bo...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lured corporate and securities attorney Karen Dreyfus to the firm's Palo Alto office from...

The pesticide used by Dole Food on banana plantations in Nicaragua contains one of the most toxic chemicals known to science, ...

Forum Column - By David T. Bristow - Short-term Band-Aids are inadequate to combat the real long-term challenges posed to the ...

PALO ALTO - California's top air pollution regulator has taken a swipe at the state's chief law enforcement officer, suggestin...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday in San Diego for Senior U.S. District Judge John S. Rhoades. The federal judg...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County jury Monday convicted a reputed Crips gang member of being the getaway driver in a jewelry stor...

Forum Column - By William H. Neukom - What does the president of the American Bar Association want states to trade in exchange...

Focus Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A lawsuit by a fair housing organization against an online roommate finder raises the qu...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Any deal involving a Peruvian company is bound to be complicated. But throw in a Korean seller,...

A divided federal appeals court on Monday turned away explosive claims of juror misconduct and upheld a 1979 death sentence fo...

Breaking up can be hard to do, especially if your significant other has a good patent attorney. ...

SACRAMENO — Bowing to pressure from Assembly Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to make public the names of comm...

A wide-ranging patent reform bill may be half way through Congress, but lawmakers have so far failed to resolve the most contr...

SAN DIEGO - Jury selection begins today in the prosecution of an environmental activist facing significant prison if convicte...

Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Former longtime Latham & Watkins corporate partner David Hernand has joined Los Angel...

Here's a reason to pay judges better: so they don't need to own stock to boost their incomes. The problem with judges investin...

Industry Watch - By Tim Hay - SAN FRANCISCO - While Lawlink.com, the brainchild of Oakland civil lawyer Steven Choi, is not th...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - For decades, the California Supreme Court has consistently ruled against the media in informa...

Focus Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - A San Francisco ruling gives the city — and potentially other municipalities across the ...

Forum Column - By Daniel Macallair and Christina Stahlkopf - After years of pronounced failure, new legislation that devolves ...

SAN JOSE - The surprise decision by Los Altos-based technology company Rambus Inc. to pay $18 million to settle a backdating c...

When the dust settled at the end of the U.S. Supreme Court's term in June, the court was more divided than it had been in more...

Faced with a looming showdown in federal court, the Roman Catholic Diocese of San Diego said Friday it had agreed to pay $198....