SAN BERNARDINO - A Los Angeles federal judge Friday granted a joint request by defense attorneys and prosecutors to postpone f...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Billionaire Boys Club defendant has sued his former prosecutors, claiming they hid exculpatory evidence and ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two trends emerged at the 33rd annual Institute on Securities Regulation, held in New York City Nov. 7-10, acc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A plea hearing in an Internet teen sex case led to a media protest when a federal judge ordered reporters excl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys from prominent firms in San Francisco and Los Angeles have volunteered to provide pro bono legal ser...

The dueling lawsuits between Franchise Pictures and Intertainment Licensing GmbH have been reassigned to U.S. District Judge A...

The law's patience with the fiction of posted online agreements may be nearing an end. The U.S. District Court in New York, ap...

With the days of summer finally behind us, it is time to look forward to the annual rites of autumn and winter - Thanksgiving,...

A patent attorney should recommend which of the client's inventions to patent based on the business goals and needs of the cli...

The effective creation of disruption and even terror in the United States by the mailing of a small number of letters containi...

The recent events on the East Coast have brought a tremendous focus on security. Security is designed to make us feel safe and...

LOS ANGELES - Want to know how many days Los Angeles Superior Court Judge X spent in trial last year or how Judge Y has ruled ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster, continuing to bring more government prosecutors into the fold, has recruited Tony Wes...

SAN JOSE - A Santa Clara County judge indicated Thursday she would probably dismiss a civil false imprisonment complaint again...

RIVERSIDE - A 1994 chemical explosion that killed two scientists at Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Field Laboratory in Ventura Coun...

LOS ANGELES - Erwin Supoly's apartment walls were filthy from years of chain-smoking, he didn't wash his clothes and at times ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco prosecutor and the man he stabbed in a fight last week in San Rafael both have criminal histor...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court has overturned a felony child-endangerment conviction in an unusual case in which the ...

SACRAMENTO - Five people have emerged as potential successors to state Legislative Counsel Bion Gregory, and some legislative ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced Thursday the appointment of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Judith Ashmann as an asso...

LOS ANGELES - Catching and prosecuting criminal noncitizens will get easier soon, with the launching this month of an interage...

SAN FRANCISCO - Richard Odom, a Los Angeles lawyer who most recently led Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison's complex litigation ...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis named a longtime city-government and law-enforcement official to the State Bar Board of Governor...

Lawyers call recruiters daily, asking them to find them the perfect in-house opportunity, because they are burned out in the p...

As the population grows and urban boundaries expand in California, there has been an increased interest in landowners applying...

On Sept. 11, terrorists attacked a great deal more than our New York skyline. They attacked the United States' way of life. An...

The much-touted "simplified" tax laws force everyone to plan all the time. It's no different this year for attorneys. Let's lo...

People's views, including those of legal scholars and historians, differ widely about the nature of the right protected by the...

LOS ANGELES - Two State Bar Court judges and a Superior Court commissioner are among the five lawyers who have entered the fig...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Hayes, a leading lawyer for Napster and Replay/TV in recent online copyright litigation, has agreed to s...