SAN FRANCISCO - The legal battle over who will get five of Jerry Garcia's celebrated guitars will stay in probate court, says...
SAN FRANCISCO - The head of San Francisco Superior Court has shuffled the magisterial deck, reassigning about half a dozen jud...
SAN DIEGO - The city attorney on Friday filed misdemeanor spousal abuse charges against Superior Court Judge Geary D. Cortes. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Mom or Dad must be told they may counsel their child before federal agents start asking questions, the 9th U.S...
SAN DIEGO - From the beginning, it was a contest of stamina - increasing the surprise when a tiny San Diego law office outlast...
SAN BERNARDINO - Struck by polio before his second birthday, Dennis L. Stout got an early lesson in adversity that, years late...
SAN FRANCISCO - Marina Grauberger thought she would take home $63,500 from the settlement of her auto accident injuries. But t...
SANTA ANA - Citing insufficient evidence, a judge Friday threw out the more serious of two charges against a former Orange Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - America Online Inc. cannot force its California customers to litigate claims against the company in its home s...
Lawyer, historian and journalist Carey McWilliams once described Southern California as "an island on the land." Although McWi...
The court came down in favor of the heirs of the Stooges, but its reasoning provides little aid in predicting how future cases...
LOS ANGELES - From braving the Alaskan cold to clerk for a state Supreme Court judge to serving as a deputy public defender in...
SAN FRANCISCO - The pack of hopefuls aspiring to become San Francisco's top municipal lawyer became more crowded Thursday as ...
Litigation
Judge Threatens Sanctions Against Lawyers in Discrimination Case
By Matthew King
SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys defending Contra Costa County against discrimination charges were accused by U.S. District Court Ju...
SAN FRANCISCO - A memorial service for the late Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk will be held Tuesday at 2 p.m. at the Wilsh...
SAN FRANCISCO - A majority of an 11-judge federal appeals panel peppered both sides with aggressive questions Thursday in a Wa...
LOS ANGELES - The California Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the conviction and death sentence of a Los Angeles man who robbe...
LOS ANGELES - A federal jury on Thursday awarded $3.6 million in damages to a former Los Angeles Police Department civilian em...
SACRAMENTO - The state Assembly approved a sweeping new substance-abuse program for attorneys Thursday as the State Bar's chi...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court has adopted a plan to better screen incoming cases so that the justices are more...
Real Estate/Development
LAUSD Wins 10-Year-Old Claim on Hotel Repayment
By Gina Keating
LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court cleared another hurdle in the Los Angeles Unified School District's attempts to either a...
The opening statement is the most important part of trial. ...
SAN FRANCISCO - Siblings Margaret and Daniel Draves never knew they had a half-brother - until he died without a will and the...
SACRAMENTO - Outside the broad glass facade of the modern building that houses the 3rd District Court of Appeal, one can gaze ...
Each year, 4,000 electronic messages are sent to the State Bar from financial institutions reporting an overdraft or dishonore...
Allowing for attorney fees as costs becomes especially important in contingent-fee cases, where the possibility of a multiplie...
LOS ANGELES - Downey- and Irvine-based Tredway Lumsdaine & Doyle has united with Long Beach firm Cayer Kilstofte & Cra...
LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles-based Lewis D'Amato Brisbois & Brisgaard, which recently added seven lawyers from boutique Knapp...
The University of Southern California Law School graduated its first class 100 years ago. During the century that followed, th...
California courts have recognized that liability insurance carriers are obligated to pay attorney-fee awards that the insured ...