WASHINGTON - As confusion and lawsuits over the presidential election multiplied throughout Florida Tuesday, a U.S. senator in...

The prospective developer of a low-level radioactive waste dump in the California desert suffered its second legal setback in ...

A trial judge did not err in allowing a burglary defendant to act as his own attorney even though the man appeared to be menta...

A federal appellate court Tuesday overturned a judge's order that lawyer Stephen Yagman attend a legal ethics course as punish...

Tired of moving its continuing legal education classes from hotel to hotel, the Practising Law Institute has built a permanent...

When the recounted numbers were tallied in Florida's Seminole County last Thursday, George W. Bush had emerged from the first ...

Law firm Web sites function as both informational and marketing tools. ...

The right of survivorship assures the surviving community tenant that he or she will receive the property at the death of the ...

In 1994, a Long Beach Police Department officer stopped motorist Randall Edwards. It was a routine stop, the officer said. The...

Jurors deciding the fate of four allegedly corrupt Los Angeles police officers listened intently Monday as a court reporter re...

SAN JOSE - Lawyers for an immigrant who sued two contract manufacturers for violating state and federal labor laws by assignin...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blasted a San Francisco judge, a state appellate court and a district judge Monday for f...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis announced Monday that he has appointed Robert Talcott, a former State Bar bar governor and former...

WASHINGTON - When veterinarian Elliot M. Katz tried to unfurl a banner in 1994 at San Francisco's Presidio, he was protesting ...

A non-practicing patent lawyer from Santa Cruz has taken on the Web's most powerful ruling body, the Internet Corporation for ...

Seeking to further expand public access to court records, legislation is in the works that would severely limit secret settlem...

District Attorney-elect Steve Cooley on Monday named an 11-member team headed by John Van de Kamp to oversee the transition fr...

The screening process for PDQuick (formerly Pink Dot) employees is expected to come under scrutiny with the filing Monday of a...

The Rodent wonders where one goes to apply for a job as a legal humor scholar. ...

Our present method of collecting and transporting ballots could cause a local, state or national crisis of staggering proporti...

Californians, and maybe Americans as a whole, are sending signals that they're ready to take some of the bite out of the crimi...

Among actions announced Monday, November 13, 2000 by the justices were:

What if, instead of inaugurating the president-elect on Jan. 20, we inaugurate a group presidency of thousands of California p...

The issue that has been left out of this election is the abysmal failure of our child-labor laws. A society can face no more s...

Cleveland-based Arter & Hadden has added seven lawyers to its San Diego office from Hillyer & Irwin, also in San Diego...

Steve McHolm and Dan Winton, a pair of real estate lawyers who've been law partners for 18 years, won't have to part when thei...

Minneapolis' Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly plans to acquire the Palo Alto patent and trademark boutique Hickman Coleman &am...

Jostra AG has completed a purchase of the Bentley Cardio Pulmonary Division of Edwards Lifesciences Corp. The deal is valued a...

James Brosnahan, a partner at San Francisco's Morrison & Foerster, has been honored with the Samuel E. Gates Litigation Aw...

Minor slights and changes in employment conditions are not actionable discrimination. ...