SAN DIEGO - A class action challenging Starbucks' practice of allowing supervisors to share employees' tips won't go to trial ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Nearly 100 percent of the partners at Reed Smith and London-based Richards Butler have approved a union betwee...

SAN FRANCISCO - After a murder witness under her protection was gunned down by masked men last month, San Francisco District A...

SAN FRANCISCO - While the overall cost of being a public company decreased in 2005, audit fees and other compliance expenses a...

WASHINGTON - In a significant victory for police and prosecutors, a deeply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that judg...

SAN DIEGO - A San Diego judge this week signed off on $161 million in legal fees to plaintiffs' lawyers who won the record $3....

WASHINGTON - When landlords and tenants fall out, they go to a judge. But what happens when the disgruntled tenant is the jud...

Forum Column - By Kirsten Schlenger - While the country focuses attention and anxiety on Congress' immigration reform bills, P...

LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo sued a large real estate management company Wednesday for allegedly driving low-i...

LOS ANGELES - Glenn D. Gritzner is not a lawyer or a lobbyist. Nonetheless, he is managing director of a new public law and ...

Judge Robert A. O'Farrell appreciates his days on the Monterey County Superior Court bench because virtually everything out o...

LOS ANGELES - Former FBI agent Denise Woo's guilty plea last week to a single count of disclosing confidential information to ...

LOS ANGELES - Merck & Co. has said that it strives for "transparency" when it comes to informing the public about the pain...

Private engineers and architects won a victory Wednesday when a state appellate court ruled that outsourcing of government con...

The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether doctors may, based on their own religious beliefs, refuse to treat ...

LOS ANGELES - The 400-attorney San Francisco firm Thelen Reid & Priest is in talks to merge with New York's Brown Raysman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former local prosecutor who accepted drugs from defendants was sentenced Wednesday to six months in federal ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The exodus of high-level Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman partners continues as the chairman of the firm's inte...

Focus Column - By Laura W. Brill, Alana B. Hoffman, Ted M. Sichelman, Jonathan P. Steinsapir - Federal circuit courts in April...

Forum Column - By Diane J. Klein and Steven Messner - If I were famous, you could already have read this article, had it been ...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - 'Deeply troubling." "Profoundly disturbing." "A huge disappointment." So intoned various med...

Letters to the Editor - My response to those in the legal community paralyzed with angst over Ms. Lynn Diane Olson ousting Jud...

LOS ANGELES - Hundreds of urban gardeners and their supporters were evicted from their South Los Angeles plots Tuesday as heli...

LOS ANGELES - When law firms venture into higher-education philanthropy, it is supposed to take the form of legal-writing comp...

LOS ANGELES - Charles E. Michaels had two ambitions in life: to be a lawyer and to be a Marine. He did both. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera pledged Tuesday to appeal a trial judge's decision overturning a vo...

MARTINEZ - Murder defendant Susan Polk has many of the characteristics of a great defense lawyer: She is fiery, articulate and...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco Superior Court jury, in what could be an unprecedented verdict, Tuesday said two chemical comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has publicly rebuked Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Joseph E. Di...

SAN DIEGO - A class action that could end a widely used practice in the state of allowing supervisors to share employees' tips...