SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Monday denied a defense request to postpone the preliminary hearing for the man accused of...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Palo Alto patent attorney won a wage dispute before the California Supreme Court on Monday, but his victory...

Everett "Bud" Burton Clary, an esteemed partner at O'Melveny & Myers who chronicled the firm's history, has died of prost...

LOS ANGELES - Three Catholic priests accused of molesting children can't stop a grand jury from seeing their personnel files, ...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation that would make California the nation's leader in protecting personal financial information was intr...

SACRAMENTO - Homeowner associations have few means of enforcing their covenants and restrictions. They can pursue their delin...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Proposition 227, the voter-passed initiative to ban bilingual education in California, has ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Michael J. Kump - The controversial new amendments to California's summary judgment statute wil...

LANCASTER - The approach of winter comes with barely a notice in most parts of Southern California. In high-desert communities...

SAN FRANCISCO - Utilities won some protection from Unfair Competition Law claims Monday when a state appellate court threw ou...

SACRAMENTO - One in four Californians now lives under the jurisdiction of a homeowners association, and as these housing deve...

LOS ANGELES - The two founders of what is now known as Tenet Healthcare Corp. are taking the nation's second-largest hospital ...

SAN FRANCISCO - California officials must be given a voice in whether the life of offshore oil drilling leases will be extend...

Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - A tabloid-reporter-turned-law-student has filed a libel suit against another journalist...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court surprised some legal observers Monday by agreeing to review its own landmark rulings on tw...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Monday agreed to consider whether a 1994 California law giving childhood victims of sexual abus...

The University of Florida edged out Syracuse University College of Law to win Loyola Law School's inaugural National Civil Tri...

The accidental deaths of two construction workers were not in vain because they brought about reform at the workplace, their a...

Wide-ranging business interests have piled on the amicus briefs in a California Supreme Court case scheduled for oral argument...

Chicago's Altheimer & Gray said it had big plans for San Francisco when it opened an office there in September with two pa...

Two bar associations in San Francisco's East Bay moved their meeting places this year, and both are announcing the event with ...

Barbie is proving to be a tough broad who won't go down without a fight. Mattel, the doll's manufacturer, proved it is not rea...

Los Angeles' Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has hired away the head of the employment group at Santa Barbara's Hatch ...

Back in the day, Bobby Caron could look down on the laborers toiling in the strawberry fields of southwest Ventura County from...

Just because intellectual property issues are going to trial more often these days doesn't mean the patent process -the granti...

Pillsbury Winthrop is the latest California firm to win the lottery for talented white-collar defense lawyers. David Anderson,...

Column By George Dale - SB800, also known as the Fix-It Bill, changes the way construction defect disputes are handled for hom...

National fraternity Pi Kappa Phi has reached a settlement with the parents of a Chico State pledge who died during a chapter i...

After 12 years as a San Francisco prosecutor, Rhonda Burgess is headed to her home county as an Alameda County Superior Court...

Salaries are down, bonuses are up and total compensation is higher for the nation's in-house attorneys, according to the 2003 ...