SAN FRANCISCO - San Diego solo attorney Amy Vandeveld didn't know anything about a 1998 class action alleging that gas pumps a...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Bernard S. Kamine - Beneath every modern city is a complex web of water, sewer, storm-drain,...

LOS ANGELES - Some evidence produced for a confidential mediation may not always stay confidential, a state appellate court sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Michael Moore, best known as the baseball-hatted everyman searching for General Motors president Roger Smith i...

Forum Column - By David Rodriguez - Gov. Gray Davis signed SB1661 into law Sept. 23. It goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2004, and ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Action Dispute Resolution Services will no longer handle arbitrations mandated by contract cla...

SAN JOSE - The incoming leadership of the Santa Clara County Bar Association plans to keep the organization growing by reachin...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Barbara newspaper publisher Wendy McCaw has been ordered to pay $14.8 million in damages, including $100,0...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury Thursday ordered national billboard giant Eller Media Co., to pay $9.8 million in damages for f...

SAN FRANCISCO - California jurors hearing a massive class action against Microsoft Corp. will be told that the company abused ...

LOS ANGELES - A key factor in priest molestation lawsuits is canon law, a 1,400-year-old body of religious doctrine that defin...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - On Aug. 5, 1997, 12 migrants, including three women and a small child, were attempting ...

Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Halloween is a few weeks away, but at various times throughout the year, it appears ...

LOS ANGELES - Aviation defense attorney and Malibu surfer Miriam Piwoz Goodman has died. Goodman died Sept. 20 at Los Robles R...

SAN FRANCISCO - Peter Keane boarded his plane for Hawaii secure in his job. Golden Gate University Law School had just offered...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two lawyers running to become a judge in San Francisco won't break the bank in their quest, if their most rece...

SAN FRANCISCO - District Attorney Terence Hallinan charged former San Francisco school district manager Timothy Tronson on Wed...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Greg Garbacz - Beginning July 1, 2004, California workers will be able to take up to six w...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local lawyers Robert Noel and Marjorie Knoller, already in prison for their roles in the notorious dog-mauling...

LOS ANGELES - Two teen-age girls who had sex with a Murrieta police officer while participating in a Police Explorer Program c...

LOS ANGELES - President Bush's use of the Taft-Hartley Act to reopen ports in California, Oregon and Washington has renewed de...

LOS ANGELES - Driven from office two years ago by the voters, former Los Angeles County District Attorney Gil Garcetti could h...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court appears ready to deliver some good news to the Walt Disney Co. and its cherished Mickey Mouse, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frode Jensen's lawsuit against his former firm, Pillsbury Winthrop, was "completely predictable," according to...

Column by Garry Abrams - The documentary movie "Biggie and Tupac" probably has a great future on cable TV - on those channels...

FRESNO - State Supreme Court justices frowned Wednesday on a California company's race to the Los Angeles courthouse to help a...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge on Wednesday denied Robert Blake his freedom, saying he will consider bail on...

LOS ANGELES - Legal experts just laugh when asked whether the $28 billion punitive damage award levied last week against Phili...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - In the former Soviet Union, Siberian vacations generally were not rese...

RIVERSIDE - Greg Johnson has come a long way since earning $350 for his racy role as Carl in the early 1980s soft porn flick "...