SAN LUIS OBISPO - Rejecting a college's effort to trademark its nickname, a judge has allowed a store to continue selling unli...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Richard J. Riordan today will unveil a nearly $5 billion budget that not only adds funding to the Police D...

LOS ANGELES - Thomas E. Workman Jr., a former partner with Pillsbury Winthrop, died of lung cancer Wednesday at his South Pasa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Boies, Schiller & Flexner, the New York law firm made famous by its work on behalf of former presidential...

LOS ANGELES - Trotting out an economic study predicting billions of dollars in losses, Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forces promoting the recall of Marin County District Attorney Paula Kamena have broadened their attack with ac...

SAN FRANCISCO - Faculty members at UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall law school have endorsed the hiring of a University of Minnesota e...

President George W. Bush's proposed 2002 budget introduced last week intends to eliminate $207 million, or 15 percent, from th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to take up the case of a criminal defendant who complains he was...

Among the cases that have addressed the issue, there generally are three varying standards for determining 'manifest intent.' ...

Increasingly, clients are pursuing claims against their former attorneys seeking potentially massive damages for insurance-rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - An East Oakland landlord must pay $500,000 to 35 tenants to settle a lawsuit claiming rat and cockroach infest...

LOS ANGELES - George Thomas Callanan, a former name partner at Stockwell, Kending & Callanan, has died. Callanan, who also...

Hockey is among my 12 or 14 favorite sports. Imagine my delight, then, when a colleague invited me to join him and two former ...

Angelo Ancheta's book represents one of the most comprehensive and insightful contributions by a new generation of Asian-Ameri...

LOS ANGELES - A former court-appointed conservator and trustee convicted of stealing nearly $2 million from the estate of the ...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A San Bernardino County judge Wednesday granted a preliminary injunction barring the Upland Police Departme...

SAN DIEGO - Fulfilling an unusual plea-bargain condition, an avowed white supremacist privately apologized Wednesday to the co...

LOS ANGELES - Three religious groups and a former parole board chairman filed an amicus brief Wednesday supporting convicted m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Heller Ehrman will be the next Bay Area law firm to unveil a big-ticket national branding campaign. And while ...

WASHINGTON - Jailhouse lawyers have no special First Amendment right to communicate with fellow inmates about their cases, a u...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would require private arbitrators to comply with the same disclosure, disqualification requirements a...

SACRAMENTO - Following a suspenseful hearing, the judge in a dispute over $88.5 million in legal fees on Wednesday gave lawyer...

SACRAMENTO - Several Republican state lawmakers announced Wednesday they have introduced a bill to give tax credits to attorne...

LOS ANGELES - The mighty U.S. Supreme Court, which last year decided the outcome of the presidential election, may be preparin...

WASHINGTON - White challengers to heavily minority voting districts can prevail only if they can show legislators drew the dis...

SAN BERNARDINO - Fifteen-year-old Steven Allen Edgar was killed when he was ejected from the back seat of a Ford Explorer that...

LOS ANGELES - During a special session today, Los Angeles' Ethics Commission may press for legislation requiring political gro...

Although some think that bad publicity about the Ford Explorer's exploding tires could make defending Ford product liability c...

President George W. Bush touted his recent White House meeting with a hand-picked group of African-American ministers, farmers...