SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has cleared a procedural logjam that had slowed progress in the city's fatal dog mauling prosecution, ...

LOS ANGELES - Ready to move on to a new phase of his long legal career, Judge David D. Perez plans to retire Oct. 5 from the L...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court has revived part of Latrell Sprewell's lawsuit against the Golden State Warriors and t...

SAN JOSE - It is not impossible to find a big-city law firm whose offices defy the usual rules of modernist architecture. Take...

The Commercial Law League of America has elected Alan Nahmias, 40, to the executive committee of its bankruptcy section. Nahmi...

LOS ANGELES - Thirteen domestic-violence assistance programs in rural California counties are not sure if they will be funded ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appeal court has cleared the Los Angeles firm of O'Melveny & Myers of an alleged conflict of inter...

LOS ANGELES - C. Daniel Levy, one of the country's leading experts in naturalization and citizenship law, died Friday. Levy, 4...

SAN FRANCISCO - An administrative case that pitted federal banking regulators against the top executives of the corporation th...

SAN DIEGO - A law school dean may have prestige and power, but California Western School of Law Associate Dean Barbara J. Cox ...

It is unfortunate that in this day of teacher shortages and an increasing immigrant student population, the 9th U.S. Circuit C...

WASHINGTON - While some former spies contend that U.S. policies against recruiting foreign agents with criminal backgrounds mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Most West Coast law firms have disaster and recovery plans. Memories are still too fresh from the 1989 Loma Pr...

LOS ANGELES - Asking lawyers to show compassion and respect during this time of national mourning, the Association of Trial La...

SACRAMENTO - A pair of DNA testing bills - one benefiting prosecutors and the other assisting defendants and inmates - are on ...

San Mateo aviation-law attorney Terry O'Reilly, visiting his native England on business and pleasure this week, said that Brit...

OAKLAND - In separate hearings Thursday that retired Alameda County Superior Court Judge James A. Hodge labeled a primer on a ...

It will be worthwhile for practitioners to continue to check on the health and condition of 'Pardo.' ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Did not! Did so. Did not! Did so. Did O'Melveny & Myers litigators, hired this summer to represent the sta...

Most of us believe that something truly evil happened on September 11, 2001, when terrorists attacked the World Trade Center a...

SAN JOSE - Bay Area counties have failed, for the last time, in their bid to add a public nuisance claim to a pending class a...

The California Teachers Association v. State Board of Education decision upholding Proposition 227's provision allowing...

SAN FRANCISCO - Alan A. Beaven, an environmental law specialist and a founding partner at San Francisco's Berman DeValerio Pea...

At noon, the Springfield Metro stop in Alexandria, Va., is generally underwhelmed by a few sleep-deprived mothers taking their...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman who was disfigured when a piece of a frying pan shot into her neck has filed a personal inj...

SAN FRANCISCO - Don Ricketts' other major lawsuit, a class action on behalf of smokers, alleges antitrust violations by city a...

LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comedian Paula Poundstone pleaded no contest Wednesday to one felony charge of child endangerment and a...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that places new restrictions on prenuptial agreements was signed into law Wednesday by Gov. Gray Davis,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Donald W. Ricketts' quixotic career as a trial lawyer could be about to pay off huge. The Santa Clarita sole p...