Here's some advice for Americans who are shocked, horrified - and perhaps even a bit puzzled - by the recent surge of shark at...

Almost six months ago, California experienced school shootings in San Diego. At Santana High School, two students were killed ...

LOS ANGELES - A new computer crimes section was created in the U.S. attorney's office to prosecute high-technology and intelle...

LOS ANGELES - Keith D. Beecher, a prominent patent attorney who, during a 40-year career, handled trademark claims for many up...

The 9th Circuit's ruling raises several interesting issues regarding carpal-tunnel injuries and the role of computers in today...

Cash flow is the most important financial variable of businesses of all types and sizes, including law firms. Delinquent accou...

SAN FRANCISCO - The union representing San Francisco's municipal lawyers now has the power to endorse political candidates and...

RIVERSIDE - The family of a man shot and killed by Pomona police officers earlier this year is claiming in a federal lawsuit t...

SANTA ANA - Orange County jurors are expected to begin deliberations early next week in the civil trial brought by alumni and ...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would increase workers' compensation benefits easily cleared its last hurdle in the Legislature on Th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fenwick & West, a 300-lawyer Palo Alto firm that profited mightily from the dot-com boom, has laid off 32 ...

LOS ANGELES - Civil rights attorneys reacted with shock and disappointment Thursday upon learning that the six-attorney team c...

SACRAMENTO - Three major privacy measures moved closer to passage in the state Legislature on Thursday, including a landmark f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis now must defend his decision not to pursue construction of a low-level radioactive waste dump ...

LOS ANGELES - In a growing trend that targets manufacturers and retailers who allegedly use sweatshop labor to produce their l...

There seems to be something endemic to this kind of litigation that causes it to go on seemingly forever. ...

The 9th Circuit's recent reversal of the death sentence previously affirmed by the California Supreme Court and the federal di...

As every prosecutor knows, sometimes innocuous items become the most compelling evidence of a crime. For me, the Bruno Magli s...

Like all other employers, law firms must be proactive in their efforts to prevent sexual harassment. Recent Supreme Court deci...

It is a distinction that has muddled the brains of generations of law students. A lease of real property creates two sets of r...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill that strengthens campaign finance reform by requiring earlier disclosure by can...

SAN FRANCISCO - Capping a nearly year-long feud between union organizers and management at one of San Francisco's biggest liti...

SAN FRANCISCO - The state's judicial watchdog agency has filed formal charges against San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge ...

LOS ANGELES - Health problems and impending surgery for one of two attorneys representing reputed former Symbionese Liberation...

LOS ANGELES - In a rare move, a Los Angeles judge said Wednesday that he would consider barring the public from the preliminar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two top lieutenants of former U.S. Attorney Robert S. Mueller III have advanced to new local posts, the Depart...

WASHINGTON - FBI blunders could help Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Terry Nichols avoid the death penalty, thanks to the bu...

LOS ANGELES - When the State Bar was in the depths of its funding crisis in 1998-99, one of the functions that suffered most w...

The bomb plot case against radical mom Sara Jane Olson should be moved to a hospital. A good one. Prosecutors, defense lawyers...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge seemed inclined Wednesday to let a trade publication pursue a novel trade-secrets case ...