SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court panel heard a lively debate Tuesday over whether to uphold a $26.5 million verdict won...

SACRAMENTO - A consumer privacy bill that would prevent financial institutions from selling their customers' personal data wit...

LOS ANGELES - When District Attorney Steve Cooley came into office eight months ago, he pledged to improve prosecution efforts...

Over the past few months, I've had the vicarious displeasure of witnessing one of the most odious types of human conflict - a ...

LOS ANGELES - Zoe Wise Ross, a woman who broke down gender and racial barriers as a personal injury attorney, died of colon ca...

LOS ANGELES - Access to family-law courts will be the subject of the upcoming Journal of the Center for Families, Children and...

"Judicial restraint isn't the stuff of academic ivory towers but respect for the rule of law that honors and protects families...

RIVERSIDE - A state Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control law requiring topless dancers to perform without touching themsel...

LOS ANGELES - When David Zuzow bought the upscale Eddie Bauer edition Ford Explorer, he did so because he thought it was the s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Praising it as "sensible" and "imaginative," a San Francisco judge on Monday approved a settlement in which fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan will not have to testify any time soon for defendants charged by his office...

SAN FRANCISCO - Parents of a 16-year-old boy who accidentally shot and killed his friend are covered by their homeowners' insu...

LOS ANGELES - It doesn't take much to get South Bay defense attorney Carl "Tony" Capozzola on a soapbox. Once he's on message,...

SAN JOSE -- A 60-year-old woman who was arrested and then strip-searched after a bus driver accused her of lying about her age...

SAN DIEGO - A lawyer for drivers ticketed through the city's red-light camera system asked a judge Monday to disqualify the ci...

LOS ANGELES - Ten women are on death row in California. Marie Elise West could become No. 11. Prosecutors have charged West wi...

Ciphergen Biosystems Inc. will buy BioSepra S.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of Invitrogen Corp., for $12 million in cash. Ciph...

The American Bar Association has elected a San Francisco trial attorney as its new treasurer, who will oversee the organizatio...

Foster City's Cell Genesys Inc. has agreed to acquire Sunnyvale biotech company Calydon Inc. The stock deal is worth $17.4 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - Several of the nation's biggest petroleum companies have agreed to settle a lawsuit demanding that they clean ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has nominated Latham & Watkins attorney David W. Fleming to the C...

The professional world of legal administrators has taken on a whole new shape in the last 10 years. ...

Jumping to a global platform, Marc S. Cohen has joined the Los Angeles office of Kaye Scholer , where he heads the firm's West...

The results are in for the National Assessment of Education Progress Test, a nationally administered mathematics exam for four...

SAN FRANCISCO - A judge has refused attorney J. Tony Serra's request for a restraining order to silence San Francisco narcotic...

After spending a decade with Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati , Vera Elson has bid the firm adieu. Elson is th...

As the practice of law becomes increasingly gender-neutral, so do the ways attorneys approach business development. ...

Network-enabling company Lantronix Inc. has completed a second public offering of 8 million shares of common stock. The value ...

Meanwhile, in other American Bar Association news, the ABA has selected Norma Formanek, a litigation partner at San Francisco'...