SAN BERNARDINO - A state appellate court Thursday affirmed a jury's $1.4 million award to an all-nude strip club, ruling the c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Irvine-based Payne & Fears, a small labor and employment firm, announced Thursday that it absorbed the Lou...

American lawyers need to change their thinking on socially conscious investing. That's the opinion of Paul Watchman, a senior...

LOS ANGELES - A federal judge has refused to let a Drug Enforcement Administration chemist testify about how much PCP could ha...

WASHINGTON - Republican senators swapped Texas for California as a model for tort reform, but they still couldn't muster the v...

Forum Column - By Keith Paul Bishop - American entertainer W.C. Fields once quipped, "I never vote for anybody, I always vote ...

Focus Column - By Jason H. Anderson - The U.S. Supreme Court recently held that arbitration clauses in contracts governed by t...

No amount in court fees is too little to fight over? So it seems after two criminal cases challenging a $20 court security fe...

LOS ANGELES - The City Council halted conversions of single-room-occupancy hotels Wednesday in an effort to preserve the dwind...

LOS ANGELES - One day last fall, David Derrico received five calls from headhunters trying to entice him away from his fourth-...

Column - By Garry Abrams - The lead story in "The Arts" section of Wednesday's New York Times was an account of disgraced cele...

LOS ANGELES - Women can't be sterilized when they check into a hospital to give birth. This is an obvious statement now, but i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Acknowledging a crisis with unsolved homicides, San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris pledged Wednesda...

SACRAMENTO - After it became apparent Chevron Corp. was their only major backer, a tort reform group announced Wednesday it wo...

LOS ANGELES - Rudolph Arrigale's life's work as a trucker included plenty of heavy lifting on loading docks. Arrigale began ...

LOS ANGELES - The leak of confidential FBI memos in the investigation of rogue private detective Anthony Pellicano has spawned...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the Estate of Rossi, the 3rd District Court of Appeal determined that an attack on ...

Forum Column - By J.H. Snider - Popularly known as the public airwaves, "spectrum" is becoming to the information era what lan...

Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky - California has almost 85,000 children living in foster care. This is a staggering num...

SAN FRANCISCO - The head of the San Francisco 49ers legal affairs is stepping down at the end the week. Edward T. Goines, gen...

LOS ANGELES - Milberg Weiss partner David Bershad has hired prominent Berkeley-based litigator Cristina C. Arguedas to represe...

Dewey Ballantine has promoted three attorneys in its East Palo Alto office including Jeannine Y. Sano, the managing partner wh...

LOS ANGELES - Stand-up comics had a field day when the nation's highest court agreed to hear the case related to former strip...

SAN DIEGO - In a case that has reminded court administrators statewide of the need for tight controls on handling money, a lo...

LOS ANGELES - A convicted child molester will be given another chance to prove he's not a sexually violent predator, thanks to...

A group of mostly white retired professional baseball players who claim they are victims of reverse discrimination struck out ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The majority of California's top 50 law firms have signed on to the Bar Association of San Francisco's ambitio...

LOS ANGELES - In promotional spots on a Los Angeles public-radio station, the law firm Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & M...

SAN FRANCISCO - J. Tony Serra will soon be heading to federal prison for tax evasion, but in a last hurrah before starting his...

What did a rival company's officials know from their outside lawyers, and when did they know it? Those are the questions Tivo...