SAN FRANCISCO - Four large Northern California law firms - Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe, Heller Ehrman White & McAuli...

LOS ANGELES - One of Los Angeles's most well-known entertainment boutiques, Century City's Ziffren Brittenham Branca & Fis...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal trustbusters have crashed the intellectual property scene, and their message to patent-rich companies ...

RICHMOND - Newly appointed Contra Costa County Superior Court John W. Kennedy reports to work every day at the Richmond Courth...

LOS ANGELES - In a major move to beef up its Bay Area presence, Los Angeles' Manatt, Phelps & Phillips has nabbed prominen...

LOS ANGELES - In an usual move, the Democratic National Committee will honor Los Angeles' rookie city attorney this weekend in...

LOS ANGELES - A government-sponsored coup last year made Bruce Iwasaki and Neal Dudovitz the kings of Los Angeles County's fed...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Thursday made it easier for prosecutors to press burglary charges in cases whe...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Lawrence J. Straw Jr., a Los Angeles litigation attorney with a successful record ...

Forum Column - By Ronald M. George, For the past 25 years, public opinion surveys in both California and the United States hav...

LOS ANGELES - A collision on a Los Angeles area freeway early Thursday morning took the life of recently appointed Superior Co...

SAN FRANCISCO - Bankrupt Pacific Gas and Electric Co. filed a $4.1 billion claim against the state Thursday, asserting that a ...

SAN BERNARDINO - He riles prosecutors with his colorful trial briefs, has donned a cape in court as his so-called alter ego, "...

Dicta Column - By David F. Pike, U.S. Supreme Court clerks fraternize with lawyers appearing before the court, parties sit at ...

Land Use Law Practitioner Column - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr., In Utility Cost Mgm't v. Indian Wells Valley Water Dist., 2...

Forum Column - By Bob Cohen, The majority of low-income people in need of legal assistance are unable to afford it. Because of...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first-ever rejection of mandatory arbitration for telephone disputes, a federal magistrate has invalida...

SAN JOSE - A Morgan Hill man's lawsuit against bail agents, whom he accused of assault and battery and abuse of process, ended...

LOS ANGELES - The word hamlet may bring to mind a collection of ivy-covered cottages surrounding a village green. In the Phili...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County district attorney's office is considering filing additional felony charges against a former lawy...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday struggled over whether a federal benefits law pre-empts laws in 40 states - includ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up a complaint that state insurance regulators are di...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Charles Bourdon and Stuart Hanlon will represent Bill and Emily Harris following the former Sym...

LOS ANGELES - Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp, a 125-attorney entertainment, intellectual property and litigation firm, has a...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles jury has rejected a claim that a division of the Walt Disney Co. defrauded and sexually discrimina...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hera, one of two giant dogs involved in the fatal mauling of a Pacific Heights woman, probably will be execute...

SAN FRANCISCO -If you pass Judge Richard A. Kramer in a hallway, offer a kind word. His life has suddenly become a lot more co...

SAN FRANCISCO -The judge overseeing Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s bankruptcy, hinting that the company's plan for emerging fr...

Column by Garry Abrams - So now it's accusations of murder - not just a supposedly semi-innocent, nobody-was-hurt, cop-car bom...

LOS ANGELES - A hard-core drug habit escalated over 15 years to leave Pedro Miranda broke and homeless by October 2000. Powerl...