A former legal assistant at Lynberg & Watkins claims in a sexual harassment lawsuit that she was forced to quit because o...

SAN JOSE - A San Mateo County judge has ruled that the identity of a key witness in a Billionaire Boys Club murder case shoul...

SAN FRANCISCO - Revisiting a dispute left over from Gov. Pete Wilson's administration, a panel of the State Bar Board of Gove...

Prosecutors have responded to a defense motion to dismiss a $119,000 embezzlement case involving two former Los Angeles Munic...

SAN FRANCISCO - Comparing San Francisco's lawsuit against the gun industry to the legal excesses of the Third Reich, lawyers ...

Working alongside his father as a teen-ager, helping to build such things as missile silos and the Century Plaza Hotel, it is...

SACRAMENTO - Two inmates plan to allege in a lawsuit to be filed today that state corrections officials violated their civil ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Increasing potential liability for bad job references, a federal appeals court has ruled that a sheriff who p...

Last-minute efforts to help a frightened 15-year-old girl - who wants to remain in the United States but was ordered returned...

Aesthetic Appeal Ornamentation Can Make Obvious Inventions Nonobvious By Charles R. Sutton One patent battleground is the req...

^^Intellectual Property^^ Suspicious Speech Federal Circuit Panels Split on Corroboration Requirement 'Finnegan' holds that t...

Lawyers representing the British maker of electronic identification chips and attorneys for pharmaceutical giant Pfizer squar...

SAN DIEGO - Nobody who encounters Lance L. Holgate would leave with the impression that he has trouble expressing himself. Ho...

Lt. Col. Cyril C. Stanfield, a medical malpractice defense litigator and decorated Air Force Reserve pilot, died Sunday at Ri...

SAN BERNARDINO - A convicted murderer and rapist who told his attorney that he was taking legal advice from the spirit of a d...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the state's leading defenders of accused judges strongly criticized the Commission on Judicial Perform...

SACRAMENTO - Legislation creating a streamlined State Bar of California to replace the entity brought to the brink of destruc...

A federal appeals court revived a class-action suit Thursday by a former Oregon prison inmate who was subjected to government...

As the winner in a year-long battle with state disciplinary authorities, appellate Justice J. Anthony Kline says that if he c...

SAN DIEGO - In a decision seen as a blow to state requirements regulating entry into a variety of professions, a federal judg...

The state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that police who find the door of a house open and the premises in shambles can enter a...

A girl named Roberta, who immigrated to the United States in 1997, is scheduled to be sent back to Romania Friday even though...

Tilting the Balance Policies That Attempt to Shift the Allocation Burden By Grace A. Carter and Eve M. Coddon Recently, a num...

By Paul O'Brien Just Desserts Jailhouse Blues and a Month Without Sundaes A judge I know once pondered the question of whethe...

By Kirk A. Pasich In 1992, the California Supreme Court decided Bank of the West v. Superior Court , 2 Cal.4th 1254 (1992), w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A political rival to San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan charged Wednesday that the city's top p...

In an effort to reduce crimes affecting the quality of life in neighborhoods, such as public intoxication and the defacement ...

A father and son who once worked as auditors for the Internal Revenue Service have pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming...

NORWALK - An Orange County Superior Court judge testified at a Norwalk hearing Wednesday that she still lives in fear of the ...

Reacting to recent shootings across the country, including the rampage at the North Valley Jewish Community Center, Los Angel...