SAN FRANCISCO - Frank Cox, a Marin County public defender who represented one of the accused in the notorious "San Quentin Six...

LOS ANGELES - Herbert Semmel, a staff attorney with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and a noted civil rights lawyer, h...

TULARE - The wheels of justice move a bit slower in Judge Walter Gorelick's courtroom. The 58-year-old jurist likes to spend t...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for accused child molester Michael Wempe on Wednesday attacked the credibility of the 24-year-old man ...

SACRAMENTO - Failing to show up for oral argument before the state's highest court is never good. And in the case of Allen J. ...

LOS ANGELES - The teenage boy slouched in the witness stand, his mop of dark hair flopped over his face as he testified nervou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Microsoft Corp.'s high-profile fight to hold onto its Windows trademark will soon head to the 9th U.S. Circuit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court Judge Alex Saldamando has upheld a $16 million fraud penalty imposed on IBM for failing to repo...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Robin Miller Sloan knows that a man named Peter Salem was involved in the Revolutionary War because of a g...

Forum Column - By Jayashri Srikantiah - It is no secret that, after Sept. 11, 2001, Arab-Americans and Muslims have been targe...

SAN ANTONIO - The expected lively debate by the American Bar Association over the future of Western State University School of...

LOS ANGELES - County officials today will be asked for recommendations in the wake of the fatal beating of a toddler whose dea...

SAN DIEGO - Retired Superior Court Judge William T. Low, who was so highly regarded that both prosecutors and defense lawyers ...

SAN JOSE - Advocates of free speech in cyberspace asked a federal judge Monday to order an Ohio electronic voting machine manu...

SAN DIEGO - All members of an appellate court panel leaned Monday toward sending a case of alleged sexual-orientation discrimi...

SACRAMENTO - A commission studying political campaign activity on the Internet will call for nurturing rather than restricting...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a move to compete with London's Magic Circle firms in Italy, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe has opened ...

LOS ANGELES - Former private investigator Anthony Pellicano, locked away on federal weapons charges, remains the central figur...

SAN FRANCISCO - As three former Oakland police officers are arraigned today in the retrial of the Riders police corruption cas...

SAN ANTONIO, Texas - The American Bar Association urged the federal government Monday to stay out of the debate over gay marri...

SAN FRANCISCO - Santa Clara Superior Court Judge William Danser, already suspended from the bench on criminal charges that he ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys Ira Barg and Brendan Conroy have carved out a subspecialty criminal defense practice that few lawyer...

Column By Garry Abrams - Hold your noses. It's time for another trip through Winnie the Pooh's garbage. Last week, Los Angeles...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court Monday upheld nearly all of a landmark $90 million award given to insurance claims adjust...

Known for having a strong insurance coverage practice, Crosby, Heafey, Roach & May ran into a few client conflicts after i...

Intellectual property partner Terence Clark has joined Greenberg Traurig from Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. Clark, who began ...

Privately held American MSI Corp. tapped Newport Beach attorney Michael Mulroy for advice in its $12 million acquisition by pl...

Column - Employment Law - By Stephanie A. Collins And Patricia A. Kinaga - An employee who undergoes sex-change surgery poses ...

Daniel Mummery, a technology transactions partner specializing in outsourcing, left Cooley Godward in Palo Alto Jan. 31 to joi...

For San Diego appellate attorney David Niddrie, it was a case of lose a partner, gain a partner. Niddrie's partner, Jennifer S...