SAN FRANCISCO - Justice Herbert "Wes" Walker has announced he will retire from the 1st District Court of Appeal immediately, c...

The irony of "First Years," which premiered March 19 on NBC, is that, given its 9 p.m. time slot, many real first-year associa...

SAN FRANCISCO - City Attorney Louise Renne said Thursday that plans by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency to amend ...

SAN DIEGO - Mark O. Hiepler, an Oxnard lawyer, has received the Special Advocacy Award from Consumer Attorneys of San Diego fo...

LOS ANGELES - Saying that victims of hate crimes whose cases are heard in outlying courts deserve the same focused attention b...

LOS ANGELES - A Chevron employee, apparently upset that he was passed over for a promotion given to a minority worker, threate...

SAN DIEGO - A second-year Thomas Jefferson School of Law student was the top competitor in oral advocacy from Southern Califor...

SAN FRANCISCO - The arraignment of lawyers Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel in the dog-mauling death of a San Francisco woman ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cities must comply with the state's basic environmental law - a requirement that may require the preparation o...

LOS ANGELES - The U.S. District Court for the Central District of California has selected five new magistrate judges. Four of ...

Technology companies Proxim Inc. and Netopia Inc. have called off their merger agreement, but their lawyers say the two plan t...

LOS ANGELES - While Oscar De La Hoya bloodied his opponent in a Las Vegas boxing ring last Saturday night, his attorneys were ...

During the last decade, several widely publicized employment-discrimination lawsuits have alerted employers to the cold, hard ...

Gilman Louie is on a mission to bring the world's top intelligence agency out of the shadows and into the digital age. There i...

The state of Florida's continued reliance on obsolete election technology and equipment was like the belief that an iceberg co...

Companies that are the targets of anonymous criticism on the Internet are fighting back - in court. One message board particip...

BARSTOW - The pit bull that mauled and killed a Newberry Springs boy last year was so vicious that its caretaker often had to ...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has ruled a talent agent waited too long to sue a record company for allegedly conspirin...

LOS ANGELES - The Internet is like an orange grove in Hemet. After the trees finally bear fruit, freeloaders come along and st...

NEWPORT BEACH - Orange County prosecutors want a newspaper reporter to testify about his interview with an Anaheim woman charg...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Wednesday strongly indicated it will rule that organizations providing marijuana to seriousl...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Quentin Kopp thinks federal judges should play by the same rules binding...

SAN FRANCISCO - By the narrowest of margins, the California Supreme Court voted Wednesday not to review controversial state re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying the Constitution protects even extreme rhetoric, a federal appeals court Wednesday threw out a $107 mil...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Tracy attorney has sued the San Francisco Business Times for libel, alleging an article printed by the publi...

The deposition is one of the most basic tasks a litigator performs. You show up, ask some questions, the witness answers, ever...

SAN JOSE - The hot potato that is the Avant criminal trade-secrets theft case was tossed Wednesday to Santa Clara County Super...

Everyone has their own dreams of role reversal - of turning the tables, of calling the shots instead of being shot at. The inm...

LOS ANGELES - An escrow company that paid the wrong lien holder in a title transaction is not liable to the holding company th...

WESTMINSTER - The mayor of Huntington Beach admitted Wednesday that the city unlawfully polluted its Old Town and downtown are...