SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran patent and trademark attorney Virginia Medlen, founding partner of intellectual property boutique Medl...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to strike down a child adoption process that has been...

SAN FRANCISCO - Last month, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Tomar Mason chaired a conference for the Association for Crimin...

Column By Garry Abrams - Rap mogul Dr. Dre is bummed out by this week's $1.5 million copyright infringement verdict against hi...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Oakland jury awarded $50.9 million Wednesday to a teen-age boy left quadriplegic by an accidental shooting ...

SANTA CRUZ - Lots of judges dread family law. Not Samuel Stevens. He was so content during his three-year family calendar assi...

Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - You can't fool all of the people all of the time, but there is a lot of money to be made...

Forum Column - By Jamie Court and William M. Shernoff - We cannot ignore the unprecedented attack on the American judiciary th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lasky, Haas & Cohler, an early offshoot of the former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison, has gone the way o...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal backed by prosecutors that would have required all convicted felons to provide DNA samples for inclus...

SAN FRANCISCO - From the annex of a small Palo Alto law firm, Gary Reback, one of Silicon Valley's most prominent intellectua...

LOS ANGELES - A 17-year-old San Diego girl caught bringing more than 50 pounds of marijuana across the Mexican border cannot b...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's landmark law banning assault weapons is headed for almost certain review by the U.S. Supreme Cou...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would ban secret settlements in litigation alleging physical abuse or neglect of the elderly won a l...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer Tuesday asked a Los Angeles County Superior Court jury to award at least $2.69 million to three female ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded a London music publisher $1.5 million in a copyright infringement case...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By James C. Martin and Benjamin G. Shatz - Five years ago, on Jan. 1, 1998, California adopted ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court heard its first Proposition 36 case Tuesday, focusing on whether a defendant wit...

SAN DIEGO - Former Superior Court Judge James Malkus has resigned from the State Bar more than a decade after being swept up i...

Forum Column - By Richard A. Shortz - A critical piece of energy legislation, HR6, again has been circulating in Washington. L...

Forum Column - By Jim Jenal - Imagine this: The phone rings, the general counsel of your best client is on the line and she's ...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - The scope of the protection afforded by the litigation privilege set fort...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court announced Monday that it will decide whether the federal government must release to a Santa Cla...

SANTA ROSA - Leslie Caldwell, leader of the team of federal prosecutors investigating Enron, said over the weekend that she ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Silicon Valley venture capitalists have not been having the best of times lately. Seed funding for technology ...

RICHMOND - A dozen Richmond residents commemorated Cinco de Mayo on Monday by filing a $1.7 million police-abuse lawsuit in fe...

LOS ANGELES - In two rulings that a civil rights attorney said could affect hundreds of other civil rights cases, a federal ju...

Column By Garry Abrams - The Winnie the Pooh royalty case exploded with verbal pyrotechnics Monday in the seventh-floor hallwa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists are cheering a ruling by U.S. District Judge Susan Illston, who has held that an enclosed po...

LOS ANGELES - Over the past 21/2 months, a Los Angeles Superior Court jury has heard graphic allegations of sexual harassment ...