SAN FRANCISCO - Fulfilling a long-standing desire to build an employment practice, San Francisco's Farella Braun & Martel ...

SAN FRANCISO - An attorney Tuesday admitted his client tried to set herself on fire in front of the deputy prime minister of V...

SANTA CLARA - Citing two appellate court decisions that he said left him no choice, a Santa Clara County judge Tuesday tossed ...

LOS ANGELES - As an undergraduate at Cornell University, Laurie D. Zelon monitored campus demonstrations. A member of the only...

LOS ANGELES - A trial court judge should look at the personnel records of three Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies to deter...

SAN DIEGO - A biotechnology company that claimed a former worker stole trade secrets will get $1 million plus shares of stock ...

Focus Column - By James D. Nguyen - Barbie is no simple doll. She has become a cultural icon, loved for her Malibu lifestyle a...

Forum Column - By Jennifer C. Pizer - "First, do no harm." This fundamental command has guided physicians since Hippocrates. A...

LOS ANGELES - A former altar boy filed suit in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Monday, claiming he was molested from 1975...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming there is no budget shortfall, members of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employe...

Column by Garry Abrams - Class, today we're going to consider the legal duality of rock 'n' roll star Courtney Love. Is she a ...

LOS ANGELES - A 14-year-old boy who says he was sexually molested in foster care cannot sue the County of Los Angeles for negl...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis has signed a bill into law enabling court interpreters to become employees with full benefits and...

Focus Column - By David B. Porter - Historically, when a taxpayer had a controversy with the Internal Revenue Service that cou...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge decided Monday to withhold a final ruling on dismissal of a class action that contends adve...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Board of Supervisors voted Monday to amend a controversial ordinance limiting tenancies in c...

WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court officially opens its 2002-03 term Oct. 7, the justices will have on their plate an unusual...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Ralph R. Olson knocks 'em dead with a regular shtick he does in c...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Nickolas John Dibiaso was appointed to the 5th District Court of Appeal, then-presiding Justice George B...

SAN FRANCISCO - Legislation transferring ownership and management of California's 451 courthouses from the counties to the sta...

SANTA ANA - California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has cleared Tony Rackauckas of allegations that he mishandled his duties ...

LOS ANGELES - Two Los Angeles men convicted with four others in a 1982 plot to bomb the office of a Turkish diplomat in Philad...

LOS ANGELES - After a prolonged battle in the California Legislature, Gov. Gray Davis has signed Laura's Law, which will allow...

Dicta Column - By Cassandra C. Shivers - As a litigator, much of your time is spent on the discovery phase of any given case. ...

Dicta Column - By Devallis Rutledge - The words "none" and "neither" lay traps for the unwary. That's because they typically p...

Forum Column - By Ana M. Storey and Jane S. Preece - Where can children be taken away from their parents without a fair hearin...

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Five loan officers from Orange County walked away happier from court than they had from their jobs. The quintet filed a wrongf...

With three attorneys in its new San Francisco office and nine more expected in the coming weeks, Chicago's Altheimer & Gra...

Venture Law Group officially pulled up stakes at its 12-attorney San Francisco office. The move, first reported in the Daily J...