Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Katherine Spelman and Katherine Keating - Clients might be about to lose 45 years of...

SAN FRANCISCO - ChevronTexaco, already facing a federal human rights lawsuit over its oil development activities in Nigeria, m...

LOS ANGELES - The first ever Korean-American woman judge in California was appointed Friday to the Los Angeles Superior Court....

LOS ANGELES - After years of struggling for success in Los Angeles, Seattle's Preston Gates & Ellis is losing its Los Ange...

Dicta Column - By Myer J. Sankary - As chairman of the executive committee of the solo and small-firm section of the State Bar...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate court has sent Venice tenants back to court to try to collect attorney fees from their landlord und...

LOS ANGELES - John C. Argue, founding partner of Argue Pearson Harbison & Myers and a key player in bringing the Olympic g...

SAN DIEGO - The judge in the trial of a man accused of kidnapping and murdering his 7-year-old neighbor said Thursday that the...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday convicted Steven Allan, a former top executive at Media Vision Technologies Inc., on f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boris Feldman would appear to be a natural candidate for an appointment to the federal judiciary. A highly reg...

Forum Column - By Mary Lou Aranguren - Moving steadily ahead, SB371, the court interpreters' collective-bargaining rights bill...

SAN FRANCISCO - A divided California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the murder conviction of a defendant who claimed police ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis appointed two veteran civil trial lawyers to the Mendocino and Sonoma County superior courts T...

LOS ANGELES - Because of a stalemate between recording artists and the Recording Industry Association of America, State Sen. K...

SAN JOSE - A former Palo Alto medical technician who re-used syringes while drawing blood was sentenced Thursday to a year in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The recent ouster of a judge for fixing traffic tickets was "excessively harsh," said the only member of the s...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would allow prison officials to use force to gather DNA samples from inmates cleared the Assembly ...

Employment Column - By Daniel Weisberg and Mark A. Romeo - The bubble-burst in the technology market and the resultant downtur...

Focus Column - By Mitchell Chyette - Often the most important question in litigation is, "Who is going to pay the attorney fees?"

SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati will lay off 100 staff members during the next two weeks, according to a ...

LOS ANGELES - In a ruling attorneys said could influence the war on terrorism, an appeal court has reversed the Los Angeles ma...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Kevin McKenney on Wednesday overturned a decision by the county's registrar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether state government must severely restrict its sp...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eyes downcast, the jury filed in with its verdict in a high-visibility federal test of torture victims' abilit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Are judges, accustomed to sitting in judgment of others, loath to admit their own culpability when faced with ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled in favor of an American Indian tribe Wednesday in a Mendocino County land-use ba...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - After a two-month trial, the jury is still deliberating about whether David Westerfield murd...

SAN DIEGO - The jury in the David Westerfield murder trial first focused on the defendant's pornography collection, court file...

SANTA ANA - With two CBS television movies under his belt, Gale P. Hickman not only enjoys a thriving career as an Orange Coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco prosecutors will charge 17-year-old rape suspect Emmitt Lewis as an adult under Proposition 21, ...