Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - Until recently, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of App...

SACRAMENTO - Attorneys who represent workers injured on the job blamed insurers Tuesday for rising workers' compensation premi...

SAN JOSE - The Santa Clara County bench and its Board of Supervisors are going to war over who should run the probation depart...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate panel Tuesday ruled excessive a $290 million punitive-damages award for a family that lost thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to review an appellate ruling that prosecutors say wrongly expande...

Column By Garry Abrams - In Hollywood, you're nobody until somebody bugs you. OK, Michael Jackson was famous before the report...

SAN FRANCISCO - A year ago John Patrick Dwyer spent Thanksgiving Day on the deserted Boalt Hall campus, loading files and pers...

SAN FRANCISCO - Incumbent Terence Hallinan and challenger Kamala Harris lost a chance for a campaign edge in the San Francisco...

SAN FRANCISCO - The announced candidates for dean of Boalt Hall School of Law appear undaunted by ongoing diversity concerns a...

Forum Column - By Henry M. Willis and Joseph L. Paller Jr. - Seventy thousand Southern California grocery store workers are ou...

Focus Column - International Law - By Michael S. Lebovitz - On May 1, 2004, 10 countries will join the European Union, bringin...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest lawyers Monday filed 600 pages of exhibits and a dozen declarations to back their claim that the...

STOCKTON - It takes patience to try a case in front of Judge Clark Sueyres. The 58-year-old San Joaquin Superior Court jurist ...

LOS ANGELES - An appellate panel on Monday reinstated an investors' lawsuit accusing BDO Seidman, the nation's sixth-largest a...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury handed $18.7 million to a construction foreman and his wife after a fall from the fifth floor of a part...

LOS ANGELES - Nearly 50 percent of the law-school grads nervously awaiting the results of their July Bar Examinations learned ...

LOS ANGELES - The modest two-story house, with a banner stretching above the front door announcing "Strong Child Care Center" ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Backers of a compromise plan to lift Pacific Gas and Electric Co. out of bankruptcy could get an early Christm...

LOS ANGELES - Three months away from trial, the Los Angeles County district attorney's office has replaced one of the prosecut...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jones Day, a 2,000-lawyer firm based in Cleveland, confirmed Monday it is in discussions to acquire nearly all...

SACRAMENTO - In a decision that could affect thousands of aliens facing deportation, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ref...

Column By Garry Abrams - The autumn of 2003 likely will go down as a historic season in the annals of Hollywood law. Everywher...

SAN FRANCISCO - Whatever his shortcomings, legal observers agree, former Gov. Gray Davis' most distinguished and enduring lega...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has done away with its longstanding rule prohibiting justices from voting on case...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously ruled Monday that victims who fail to report sexual harassment at wor...

LOS ANGELES - When Michael Jackson shocked TV viewers worldwide last year by dangling his 9-month-old baby from a Berlin hotel...

FAIRFIELD - Travis Associates has leased 3,400 square feet of retail space at 666 Parker Road to Allan and Chris Hanson. Ron W...

When Labor Union Leaders' Whisperings About the Mayor Play On the Radio, Whose Suit Against Whom Has Chance to Succeed? ...

When a Will and Circumstances Have Changed, What Rights Do a Friend, a Brother, Descendents and a University Have in an Esta...

Did Director, Officer, Lawyer Involved With Firm's Stock Violate Federal Securities Laws or Rules of Professional Responsibi...