SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento Superior Court judge, in what is being called one of the most significant water rulings in years...

SAN FRANCISCO - Big paydays should always be so easy. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali took less than 10 minutes Friday t...

SAN DIEGO - A mentally ill drifter will stand trial for the 1998 slaying of 12-year-old Stephanie Crowe after a San Diego Cou...

WASHINGTON - Acting on a trademark suit brought by lingerie maker Victoria's Secret, the Supreme Court Tuesday ruled that a t...

LOS ANGELES - Washington power lawyer Robert Bennett has stood up to special prosecutors and defended a sitting U.S. presiden...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has upheld a freeze on the assets of a Beverly Hills woman whose ex-husband was ordered...

Forum Column By Kevin B. Zeese Marney Craig is a middle-class Caucasian woman with a good job, fine family and clear sense of ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the constitutionality of a state law that extended the deadline for victi...

Forum Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - It makes prosecutors nervous when judges go outside their traditional roles. Therefore,...

LOS ANGELES - Television director and science fiction film writer Ib Melchior can continue to fight New Line Productions Inc....

LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for private investigator Anthony Pellicano said Monday that gun charges against his client should be...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan on Monday invoked his past as a civil libertarian and his current role as t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Criminal defense lawyer Bill Fazio, a longtime rival for San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan's jo...

WASHINGTON - Weighing a major consumer-protection issue, the Supreme Court justices indicated Monday that they will not allow...

Column By Garry Abrams - Roll over and squeal. No, this is not a line from the movie "Deliverance." It's part of the federal g...

SAN JOSE - The acquittal of a Russian software company of copyright violation charges under the Digital Millennium Copyright A...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer wants 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Alex...

Focus Column - Legal Malpractice - By Alec H. Boyd - In negligence and breach-of-fiduciary-duty cases arising from an attorney...

SAN FRANCISCO - The world's largest defense contractor won tactical victories in two California Supreme Court decisions Monday...

SAN DIEGO -District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis on Monday began putting her stamp on the department she wrested from Paul Pfingst...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to consider whether law enforcement officers can be held liable for damages if...

Teachers expect juicy red apples on Teacher Appreciation Day. Secretaries get special attention - probably a large vase of flo...

Johnson & Johnson has agreed to buy Sunnyvale's Scios Inc. for $2.4 billion in cash to enhance its biotechnology arsenal. ...

Milton Stewart decided early last year that his firm needed to do a better job developing new business. The economy was in the...

It's not the stuff of "Joe Millionaire," "Survivor" or the myriad other reality shows flooding America's television sets, but ...

As law firms scrambled to hire Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison attorneys, a Greenville, S.C.-based labor an employment law bou...

Cooley Godward picked up a pair of patent attorneys last month. Roberta Robins and Dahna Pasternak both joined the firm as pa...

San Diego-based Jack in the Box Inc. has acquired Qdoba Restaurant Corp., making it the latest fast-food chain to expand into ...

With a room full of 400 mediation and arbitration professionals, you can bet the stories of who's settled the toughest cases w...

Boston Properties Inc. has executed a lease at Times Square Tower with Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers, the office buildin...