Patent practitioner Karen Dow has left Silicon Valley's intellectual property scene for a partnership spot at Morrison & F...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Pacific Gas and Electric Co. bankruptcy case has been described as the biggest utility bankruptcy in U.S. ...

SAN DIEGO - The city of San Diego charges an illegal fee to review disputed parking citations and has withheld more than $1 mi...

LOS ANGELES - Irvine-based Kring & Brown has refreshed its wilting San Diego outpost with the addition of returning partne...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has revived a $10 million racial discrimination lawsuit against the University of Califo...

SANTA ANA - The case of two people who were caught issuing and redeeming more than $15 million worth of counterfeit stock shou...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles criminal defense attorney is accusing the Superior Court's North Central district of discriminati...

SANTA BARBARA - A Boy Scout executive who was fired after revealing he is a homosexual has settled his discrimination lawsuit ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Truck drivers spied on by their employer using hidden cameras and microphones in terminal restrooms have won t...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Franciscans want a city attorney who is, above all else, impartial. They don't much care if he or she has ...

LOS ANGELES - Bruce Babbitt is not someone who is at a loss for words on compelling topics. So attendees at Public Counsel's 2...

SAN JOSE - By reaching a deal last month in the Avant trade secrets case that will put several perpetrators behind bars, Santa...

LOS ANGELES - A discovery referee dunned the Los Angeles Unified School District five times for a total of about $75,000 for a...

LOS ANGELES - Give Jack Walker a chance to tout his law firm's enduring commitment to pro bono work, and he's not likely to gi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Yanking the heart out of a products liability suit against the maker of an allegedly faulty pacemaker, a divid...

LOS ANGELES - Alex Sanchez, the gangbanger turned peacemaker who made headlines when he faced deportation stemming from a Ramp...

LOS ANGELES - Owen Joseph Brady, a Pasadena lawyer whose Jesuit education guided his 50 years of practice, died of heart failu...

People become lawyers because they like to win. And as lawyers, they can delude themselves into seeing everything as a win-win...

Superior Court Judge Charles C. Kobayashi's May 8 ruling in Marine Forests Society v. California Coastal Commission, 00...

The court stated that the distinction among permissible users of second units violated both privacy and equal-protection right...

Should we ban pit bulls and similar dog breeds? ...

LOS ANGELES - A diverse swath of Los Angeles stretching from Hollywood to just west of downtown has a voice in City Hall for t...

LOS ANGELES - In light of an appellate court ruling, a federal judge reversed himself Thursday and said Los Angeles City Counc...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Attorney-elect Rockard J. "Rocky" Delgadillo on Thursday named O'Melveny & Myers litigation...

SANTA ANA - A former Orange County jail inmate has filed a federal civil rights suit accusing sheriff's deputies of failing to...

LOS ANGELES - A lot of parents spend a small fortune sending their kids to law school, and for most, watching their children r...

SAN JOSE - Cadence Design Systems is asking a judge to award a whopping $700 million in compensation for lost profits and othe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A trailblazing domestic partners ordinance, requiring San Francisco city contractors to provide equal benefits...

SAN FRANCISCO - Next month, with the near-certain cooperation of an Oakland judge, Alameda County Assistant District Attorney ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs' attorneys have failed to prove that nine oil giants conspired to bilk consumers by raising gasolin...