SACRAMENTO - Some of the $13.5 million the state got in the settlement of its pretexting suit against Hewlett-Packard will be ...

The legal landscape in Texas could be in for yet another big change, should merger talks between Kirkpatrick & Lockhart Pr...

A federal judge's decision Thursday striking down a local anti-immigrant law in Pennsylvania likely will have a ripple effect ...

The office of independent counsel - made famous a decade ago by President Clinton prosecutor-in-chief Kenneth Starr - could be...

Longtime death-row prisoner James Hardy might not be a killer, but he still deserves to spend the rest of his life in prison, ...

LOS ANGELES - A Pomona jury ordered a residential care facility to pay $12.5 million to three men who said they were sexually ...

A pair of new laws requiring hospitals to report errors by physicians and administrators could cause a spike in medical-malpra...

SANTA MONICA - WWCOT and Booker Gery Architects merged and as a result, Booker Gery's Modesto office will operate under the WW...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former Department of Labor employee who investigated claims of workplace discrimination says she has found a...

Forum Column - Stacey D. Pacelli - For retaining associates, quality of life may prove to be more important than quantity of p...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge in Los Angeles dismissed all claims against KPMG in a derivative-shareholder lawsuit against Vit...

LOS ANGELES - More than 3,000 Southern California attorneys are expected to pack the former site of the Warner Bros. Studios i...

Focus Column - Health Care Law - As health care professionals know all too well, health care is provided in the context of a c...

Focus Column - Stephen P. Robinson - Two recent auto-insurance cases demonstrate deeply flawed jurisprudence. ...

The Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area, one of the country's most influential civil rights advo...

RIVERSIDE - An Alameda County judge who presided over one of that county's most notorious capital murder cases and a Santa Bar...

Forum Column - Paul Kiesel - Apple's newest gadget is heavy on enticing features but light on the necessities for busy lawyers...

LOS ANGELES - A civil-court judge will not sign off on a settlement calling for a doctor who was found by a jury to be 55 perc...

Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has thrown several curve balls since Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito...

SAN JOSE - Six years ago, the general counsel of a San Jose semiconductor company warned his boss that backdating stock-option...

Among the more pressing issues confronting health care practitioners today is the emergence of off-label promotion by pharmace...

Web Exclusive - GOP lawmakers are squabbling with Attorney General Jerry Brown over his efforts to regulate climate change. ...

Bucking retirement, Richard Neiter, 68, became a bankruptcy judge in 2006 - after almost five decades as a practitioner in t...

Competing interpretations of a May jury verdict have muddied novelist Clive Cussler's case against the production company that...

Peter J. Rose spent 10 years in prison for a crime he didn't commit - the rape of a 13-year-old Lodi girl. After his exonerati...

LOS ANGELES - Steven Roseman, a noted workers' compensation attorney who co-founded and headed a statewide group for attorneys...

Forum Column - Madeleine Albright - The former secretary of state examines the importance of law for human rights, domesticall...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four years ago, Stockton officials embarked on a plan to supply water and sewer services to the city's residen...

A senior Republican senator says a special counsel can resolve the showdown between Congress and the White House over the firi...

LOS ANGELES - A former Catholic priest assigned to a Pacoima parish was arrested Tuesday and charged with six counts of sexual...