The more-than 9,000 lawyers descending into the sizzle and mug of Atlanta this week for the American Bar Association's annual...

SANTA BARBARA - It's dangerous these days to say harmful things about companies on the Internet, especially while impersonati...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission conducted a nationwide sweep targeting suspected manipulators of the s...

SACRAMENTO - The Proposition 187 litigation may finally be over, but rights and benefits for an estimated 2 million illegal i...

Court cases relating to sexually oriented content on the Internet often involve attacks on the freedom to purvey it and ways ...

Loan Justice Jenkins & Mulligan, a two-lawyer consumer law firm, devotes 30 percent of its time to pro bono matters. Its ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Southern California lawyer has learned the hard way about the dangers of representing yourself in civil lit...

By Stacy L. Cohen Whoever said you can never go home again hasn't met Todd Dickey. After graduating from University of Southe...

Fenwick & West SAVVY SAVI BUYS ITSELF BACK FROM RAYTHEON Employees of Savi Technology, a Mountain View company that makes...

By Stephen M. Murphy Plaintiffs' medical malpractice lawyers in California are nuts. How else to explain why they would take ...

SANTA ANA - A Santa Ana man charged with posing as a lawyer and bilking unknowing clients out of thousands of dollars in lega...

By Daniel Shaw The issue of multidisciplinary practice is hot these days. Too hot, it turns out, for the American Bar Associa...

By John Petrovich and Ned Sherman Founders of technology start-up companies commonly ask counsel what the entrepreneurs can d...

By Patrick O'Donnell For decades, California attorneys have complained that the dazzling variety of inconsistent local court ...

The bar is still dominated by shortsightedness and self-interest. Spotting change there is like watching a glacier move. Vern...

By Richard S. Rosenberg When the California Industrial Welfare Commission scuttled the state's daily overtime requirement for...

^^Construction Law^^ By Bernard S. Kamine In an unusual procedure, the California Supreme Court ordered published the appella...

Consumer Affairs Plaintiffs' attorneys hope to further their image as protectors of the people by promoting new laws that wou...

What does Daniel Feldman , an associate in the finance and infrastructure group at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster , ...

By Leslie A. Gordon Bob Sherry is an opportunist - in the best sense of the word. A partner at McKenna & Cuneo in San Fra...

In a demonstration endorsed by the Los Angeles County Public Defender's Association, several dozen protesters Friday again ca...

SAN FRANCISCO - Angela Alioto's lives as a San Francisco practitioner and political candidate crossed last week when she file...

SAN DIEGO - Numerous legal issues are raised by a $2.6 million claim filed against the county of San Diego by the widow of sl...

Nearly three years after voters endorsed the compassionate use of marijuana to ease suffering among the medically ill in Cali...

SANTA ANA - One woman said she was pinned to a wall and groped and kissed against her will. Another said she was discouraged ...

Upon graduating from Hastings College of the Law in 1980, James I. Stang carefully surveyed his options. He turned down an of...

PHILADELPHIA - On one of her last days as president of the National Bar Association, Beverly McQueary Smith was still anxious...

SAN FRANCISCO - The beating death two years ago of a German shepherd puppy could send a convicted child molester to prison fo...

Attempting to put an end to one of the largest civil cases in the history of the Los Angeles Superior Court, a judge has take...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court barred bad-faith suits against surety companies Thursday, throwing out a suit th...