Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Alan I. Cyrlin - From banner ads to fair use, courts in 2004 tackled several hot tra...

Forum Column - By Margaret Crosby and David Robertson - On Saturday, Californians who support women's reproductive rights will...

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Coleman Dinkelspiel, whose wide-ranging legal interests were deeply rooted in an old San Francisco fir...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Thursday reinstated a proposed class action against SBC Communications Inc. for alleged...

SAN FRANCISCO - The trustee overseeing the bankrupt Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is suing more than 200 partners of the de...

INDUSTRIAL CHINO - P&O Nedlloyd signed a 10-year, $23 million lease for a 549,195-square-foot industrial building in the C...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn has created a legal defense fund that paid out $18,500 to law firm Manatt, Phelps &...

SACRAMENTO - A state appeal panel Thursday upheld a trial judge's landmark ruling that the city of San Francisco could act as...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco judge on Thursday effectively wiped out a lawsuit against Oakland civil rights lawyer John Bu...

SAN DIEGO - A judge has set a date in the fall for Sempra Energy to stand trial in a $24 billion class action that accuses the...

LOS ANGELES - Bolstering the efforts of American heirs to reclaim artwork looted by the Nazis, a Santa Barbara Superior Court ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Three months ago, San Bernardino County's district attorney fired one of his prosecutors for allegedly leakin...

LOS ANGELES - With the rising popularity of programs like "CSI," jurors expect to see the same intricate forensic science that...

SAN FRANCISCO - The plaintiffs firms that forced Microsoft to settle a huge antitrust case are now fighting among themselves ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A veteran San Jose public defender fired for dishonesty has gotten himself in new trouble, allegedly for helpi...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Thursday sidestepped a decision on whether a voter initiative sharply curtailing state u...

LOS ANGELES - After one year on the bench, Judge Drew E. Edwards has moved into what is considered by some to be the underappr...

SAN FRANCISCO - "If we cannot execute a mentally retarded person, what about a person who had severe brain damage in a car ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson, Sonsini, Goodrich & Rosati will pay generous bonuses to its associates for work done in 2004 - the...

Forum Column - By Michael J. Proctor and Michael V. Schafler - The day after the U.S. Supreme Court announced its decision in ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Michael M. Rosen - Can you imagine living without your BlackBerry? You may have to, ...

LOS ANGELES - A memorial service for Anthony J. Sousa, a veteran Los Angeles County prosecutor, will take place Feb. 5 in Sant...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court Wednesday upheld a $306,000 award for a man who claimed he missed out on millions coming...

SAN FRANCISCO - One day after news broke that Pillsbury Winthrop and Shaw Pittman were in advanced negotiations to merge, Sha...

INDUSTRIAL SAN DIEGO - Jamco International signed a five-year, $648,972 lease for 22,051 square feet of industrial space in Pa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Judge Martin E. Rothenberg, a longtime lawyer, jurist and public servant in Contra Costa County, died...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer who failed to tell his client that he faced possible disbarment on a laundry list of disciplinary charges...

SAN FRANCISCO - The securities fraud trial of McKesson Corp. former Chief Financial Officer Richard Hawkins got under way Wed...

SAN FRANCISCO - An aspiring hair model will get an audience with the state's highest court to argue she's entitled to $15,000...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The powers that be in Los Angeles are all tangled up like a bundle of warring snakes in a scandal o...