OAKLAND - Construction magnate Ronald Tutor will become a defendant when San Francisco lawyers file the latest version of the...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with the anguished pleas of his ailing grandmother, Nabil Issa did what any concerned grandson would do. T...

SAN FRANCISCO - Trial courts and the U.S. Congress are increasingly hostile to gun control lawsuits, but dogged California pl...

Three retired judges have found homes with ADR providers following their careers on the bench. JAMS has hired retired San Dieg...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - As the Senate considers President Bush's proposal to cut taxes by hundreds of billions of do...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - Law firms, like any other employer, are subject to laws that prevent them from discrimin...

Focus Column - Land Use - By Daniel J. Curtin Jr. - In a case of first impression, an appellate court has held that a claim fo...

SANTA ANA - In a reversal of fortune, a former power couple once riding high on a string of successful lawsuits and settlement...

LOS ANGELES - A state appeals court Wednesday reinstated a class action brought by a Los Angeles woman who claims that Blue Cr...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman filed suit Thursday against the reality TV program "The Jamie Kennedy Experiment" for allege...

SANTA ANA - As attorney Melanie Rae Blum and former attorney Mark Elliot Roseman are brought to trial on charges they siphone...

SAN FRANCISCO - First District Court of Appeal Justice Laurence D. Kay has rebuffed an unusual recusal request by a Marin Cou...

LOS ANGELES - The Democratic Leadership Committee on Thursday named Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo and City Counci...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid & Priest announced a joint venture Thursday with London-based Masons that will combine the fi...

LOS ANGELES - Despite ruling that an FBI agent "recklessly" omitted information when he sought a wiretap authorization, U.S. D...

SAN FRANCISCO - Johnnie Cochran and Stuart Hanlon have paid an undisclosed sum to Oakland sole practitioner Robert Bloom to e...

LOS ANGELES - Defense counsel for Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison told Malibu jurors Thursday that rejecting Dickson, Carlson ...

SAN FRANCISCO -A federal judge here opened arguments in a key Digital Millennium Copyright Act dispute Thursday by indicating...

SAN DIEGO - Birgit Koebke wanted to play golf at her country club with her domestic partner, Kendall French. So in 1994, Koebk...

LOS ANGELES - Fifteen years ago, when Superior Court Judge Bob S. Bowers Jr. was still a commissioner in Compton, he called a ...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Suzanne Badawi - Everyone knows what happened to venture capitalists who jumped on the dot-c...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - Recently enacted Code of Civil Procedure Section 1284.3(a)...

Forum Column - By Dara K. Reiner - Few people know what happens to abused and neglected children once they are removed from th...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether to preclude punitive damages in fraud cases t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Plaintiffs whose $33.7 million jury verdict set a record for the largest damages award in a California asbest...

LOS ANGELES - The attorney for a 63-year-old lung cancer patient suing cigarette makers for enticing him into a smoking addic...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge approved a $400,000 settlement Wednesday in a wrongful-death lawsuit brought against the ma...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles woman Wednesday filed a lawsuit to try to block the Los Angeles Zoo from separating two female ele...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of a Los Angeles city ban on protesters carrying ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city's public lawyers overwhelmingly approved a new contract Wednesday that temporarily cuts their pay by...