SAN FRANCISCO - Bay Area environmental groups recently received a painful double lesson in the legal reality that even the mos...

SAN FRANCISCO - Charges of "politics" entered San Francisco's fatal dog mauling case Monday, when a judge reversed a court ord...

WASHINGTON - For "adult" businesses in Los Angeles, having a book-and-video retail store in the same space as a video arcade i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Fighting ethics charges arising from her rancorous but unsuccessful reelection campaign, former Sonoma County ...

SAN DIEGO - U.S. Rep. Bob Filner has asked District Attorney Paul Pfingst to criminally charge five companies that sell electr...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County Superior Court judge has tentatively ruled that Healthcare Partners Medical Group does not qualif...

The state Supreme Court on Monday rejected a convicted drug abuser's claim that a prosecutor committed prejudicial misconduct ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Palo Alto's Cooley Godward announced Monday that well-known New York corporate lawyer Daniel Mummery is the fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the nearly three weeks since its opening, the New York office of Palo Alto's Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & ...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles lawyer pleaded guilty Monday to money laundering and a tax charge for helping to hide some of the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court ruled Monday that a jury has a very limited role when a defendant challenges pros...

LOS ANGELES - Antonio Villaraigosa gripped-and-grinned his way through a crush of suits at a speechfest for Los Angeles' mayor...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kimiko Burton grew up boycotting grapes and protesting the Vietnam war with her father, the state assemblyman ...

LOS ANGELES - Chilled and damp from helping 100 environmentally concerned citizens clean debris from the Ballona Wetlands duri...

LOS ANGELES - Steve Soboroff enjoys standing out in a crowd, especially when the crowd includes five politicians vying for the...

LOS ANGELES - Give back the $60 million! It will make us feel so good! That heartfelt and touching plea for gobs of money was ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Forcing defendants to waive their right to obtain potentially exculpatory evidence from the government as part...

LOS ANGELES - Congressman Xavier Becerra doesn't look like a perennial dark-horse candidate who defied his party twice to stag...

LOS ANGELES - Joel Wachs traces his calling to public service to the first grade, when he was a blackboard monitor. A member o...

LOS ANGELES - As the son of a legendary Los Angeles County supervisor who served for 40 years - and a man who himself has held...

Whatever you may think about Napster, the 9th Circuit's opinion dramatically and unwisely has upset the balance in an old disp...

Among actions announced Monday, March 5, 2001 by the justices were:

Today, Dicta presents the first in an occasional look at the most trenchant quotes culled from our news pages.

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place March 10 for retired business attorney and businessman Joseph Robert Vaughan. Vaughan, ...

Robert Townsend wasn't home for the holidays. Every time an American holiday rolled around in recent years, the 44-year-old pa...

Los Angeles-based real estate firm Pircher Nichols & Meek has hired a new law school graduate. Scott Hettema joins the fir...

San Diego's Higgs Fletcher & Mack has added a partner and an associate to its intellectual property group. Charles Reidelb...

Boston Scientific Corp. will acquire Interventional Technologies Inc. in a cash transaction valued at $345 million. Boston Sci...

When Ivonne Prieto joined the International Committee of Lawyers for Tibet in 1999, she told the Berkeley-based organization t...

San Francisco's Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe is the latest firm to announce that it isn't raising its associate base rate...