LOS ANGELES - The $3.2 million verdict handed down this month in favor of Alan Ladd and Jay Kanter against Warner Bros. marks ...

Forum Column - By Sid Leach - An Arizona court has taken the long-overdue step of punishing individuals who try to live off of...

The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is almost 10 years old, and the rules of the information superhighway are more confusing ...

Focus Column - By Elisa Paster and Niyati Vyas - The state Supreme Court gives cities the green light to dole out business adv...

Paul L. Krentzman attended law school because he wasn't interested in science and "wasn't good at fixing things." It turns ou...

SAN FRANCISCO - During the last 25 years, earthquakes, fires and winter storms have caused the city of Oakland to be declared ...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - California employers who want to stay on the right side of the law need to brush u...

A little more than a year ago, three women brought a race class action against financial services giant Morgan Stanley. On Au...

SAN FRANCISCO - Once upon a time, only the biggest law firms in the western world dared to set up shop in communist China. To...

Los Angeles-based attorney George Stephan is on a crusade to see that California's strict mediation confidentiality laws stay ...

LOS ANGELES - After helping secure a $36 million settlement for 300,000 people from the nation's leading bar review provider i...

SAN JOSE - The San Jose Unified School District announced at the end of July that it would take on the task of retrofitting th...

Victor Arellano died after officials in a San Pedro detention center refused to give him his AIDS medicine, fellow detainees s...

Two Mayan Indian brothers ages 9 and 7 fled with their parents in 1982 after Guatemalan army soldiers entered their rural vill...

Web Exclusive - Surprise, Surprise. San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris has an opponent in her re-election bid: the ...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar is launching a pilot program that will allow 1,500 of its attorneys to bypass lengthy courthouse s...

Forum Column - By James J. Brosnahan - A former member of the Kennedy Justice Department looks back on a career that puts the ...

RIVERSIDE - Two days after losing a bid to bar a judge from presiding over a murder trial, Riverside District Attorney Rod Pac...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court ruling this week restricting the U.S. Navy's use of sonar during training exercises off Southe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bingham McCutchen's public policy consulting outfit is setting up shop in Sacramento in order to service clien...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a first of its kind lawsuit brought under Chinese law, a San Francisco lawyer filed a local class action We...

Focus Column - By Steven B. Katz and Andrew Miller - A case out of the California Supreme Court is breaking new ground in def...

He's still just a temp, but interim San Francisco U.S. Attorney Scott N. Schools is moving ahead with the permanent appointmen...

When San Francisco last hosted the ABA conference four years ago, the biggest debate in intellectual property law was the curi...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors in Santa Ana on Wednesday filed a criminal complaint against an attorney to former Broadcom ...

A lawsuit filed by a prosecutor who claims his career was sidetracked by District Attorney Steve Cooley as part of a political...

Cordiality rules Orange County Judge Mary Fingal Schulte's courtroom, but the unprepared lawyer can run the risk of falling i...

LOS ANGELES - Dole Food Company continued to use a pesticide on its Nicaraguan banana plantations even after reports surfaced ...

SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento Legal Secretaries Association is offering three $1,000 scholarships for students pursuing careers ...

Ed Jew's career as a San Francisco politician may not be long for this world. But the rookie official still has a fighting cha...