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Ask a law firm to pinpoint its main office location, and you're likely to get some incarnation of the following: "We don't ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - President Bush's nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of C...

SAN FRANCISCO - Suppliers of human tissue for medical procedures cannot be sued for strict liability because they provide a h...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1994, while most people limited their thoughts about sex to the physical world, Gary Kremen was fantasizin...

LOS ANGELES - When a dozen federal agents came banging on his door at 7 a.m. with guns drawn and a battering ram, Michael Nguy...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By John M. Genga - With a 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision at the end of June, en...

Employment Column - By Kevin Lilly - Most people are aware that union membership has been declining for decades. In 2001, the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge heard arguments Thursday in a procedural battle that could determine the fate of lawsuits seek...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of Santa Monica court commissioner Joseph Shiro Biderman and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morgan, Lewis & Bockius has landed an exclusive, two-year deal with Cisco Systems Inc. to handle all of th...

SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals court Thursday upheld three contempt sanctions against a Larkspur criminal defense attorney who...

SAN DIEGO - A lawsuit challenging a section of the state Elections Code that requires voters to cast a vote on a recall before...

Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis Opatmy - Floyd Andrews returned to the San Francisco Hall of Justice this week. But it wasn't ...

SOUTH GATE - Albert T. Robles, the former South Gate city treasurer ousted in a January recall election, has been indicted on ...

SAN DIEGO - Gov. Gray Davis has appointed corporate attorney Randa M. Trapp to a vacant seat on the San Diego Superior Court, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The director of California's prison system, Edward Alameida, dropped three inquiries into alleged perjury by P...

LOS ANGELES - An accused armed carjacker released from jail after Memorial Day in a dispute between the District Attorney's Of...

SAN FRANCISCO - Does it really take as many as 67 law firms charging as much as $1,000 an hour to settle class action claims o...

LOS ANGELES - William D. Stewart believes he has the best job in the world. Since early 2001, the soft-spoken Midwesterner has...

LOS ANGELES - Scott Forbes and William Miles III, a West Hollywood same-sex couple, had been living together since 1980, but l...

SAN FRANCISCO - Merger negotiations between Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe and Cooley Godward have collapsed even as merger...

SAN JOSE - A legal showdown looms today in the case of Brian DeVries, the first child molester to complete the treatment progr...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lauren Weis Birnstein is as enthusiastic talking about her legal career as she ...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Robert P. Andris and Elise R. Vasquez - Copyright law provides a limited form of mon...

Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The pages of legal newspapers seem to scrupulously avoid critical analysis about the ...

Focus Column - Immigration Law - By Kathrin Mautino - On March 1, the Immigration and Naturalization Service ceased to exist. ...

Forum Column - By Rocky Delgadillo, Dennis Herrera and John Russo - Consider this: A young, single man living in San Luis Obis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chevron USA Inc. can't use health as an excuse to refuse to hire a job applicant with a liver condition simply...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hackers broke into Thelen, Reid & Priest's Internet server this summer and caused two of the firm's Web si...