SACRAMENTO - In the first California case of a cancer-ridden smoker to win damages against a cigarette maker, a state appellat...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday overturned what had been the largest punitive damage award in U.S. history, ...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court explored Wednesday how it might carve exceptions to the general rule that an injured...

Police officers be damned, malicious and false misconduct allegations filed against officers are constitutionally protected un...

Unless an attorney is independently wealthy, getting paid for the legal services rendered is a critical issue. It is especiall...

Lawyers for natural gas companies apparently have discovered that they can produce the stuff simply by putting words on paper....

Credibility determinations are a critical part of workplace investigations. Yet employers are often reluctant to make judgment...

No, Virginia, there is no Lloyd's of London insurance company. At least not the way many people perceive it as the insurer of ...

Unlike private sector employment relationships, the employer-employee relationship in the public sector is strictly limited by...

The case had all the earmarks of a John Le Carr spy thriller: exotic locale, stolen jewels, a business partner on the run, arr...

In the early 1600s, a gifted math professor at the University of Pisa was summoned to Rome on suspicion of heresy for publishi...

Judging from recent events and articles in legal publications, the role of juries in civil cases is becoming more and more co...

A successful attorney, an accomplished amateur jazz pianist and a busy private judge, Yarlov Sochynsky is considered the famil...

Kevin Duffis of Santa Ana's Cotkin, Collins & Ginsburg hosted a discussion group including plaintiffs' attorney Paul Kiese...

For those with faith in the justice system, the attorney with the best facts wins the case. In reality, juror decisions never ...

LOS ANGELES - "Captain" Bob Petty, the mustachioed television helicopter news reporter, has been charged with illegally posses...

SACRAMENTO - Nearly everyone knows from watching movies and television that the federal witness protection program gives new i...

SACRAMENTO - Critics in recent years have pilloried the state's political watchdog agency for getting bogged down in petty cas...

SAN DIEGO - The operator of an immigration-consultant business pleaded guilty on Tuesday to 23 counts of grand theft for swind...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tower Snow Jr., who vowed to resign as chairman of the 950-lawyer Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison if partners ...

DENVER - Contrary to the views of some legal-aid advocates, Richard Samp insists his heart isn't two sizes too small. He's jus...

SACRAMENTO - Former Oakland Mayor Elihu Harris has agreed to pay $10,000 on behalf of two political campaign committees he con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s plan to extract itself from bankruptcy represents a "wholesale preemption" of s...

SACRAMENTO - Attorney General Bill Lockyer forcefully rejected the proposed settlement in the Microsoft antitrust case Tuesday...

LOS ANGELES - Sherman Oaks attorney Richard Amerian, a retired appellate court judge, has died. Amerian died Sunday while vaca...

VICTORVILLE - Testimony is expected to begin Thursday in the trial of a lawsuit in which the parents of a 10-year-old boy who ...

RIVERSIDE - An appellate court has ruled that clerks at a Nordstrom department store did not behave outrageously in refusing t...

LOS ANGELES - A three-judge federal panel Tuesday denied a request by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund ...

SAN JOSE - The legal crusade by a prominent Silicon Valley chief executive against what he describes as "the predator bar" was...