SAN FRANCISCO - An electric cogeneration operator, idled for weeks due to nonpayment of $58 million in debts by Pacific Gas &a...

LOS ANGELES - President Bush's decision to hold off nominating any judges to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals illustrates...

LOS ANGELES - Conspiracy! Bureaucratic Bumbling! Political Opportunism! It's been an action-packed week of recrimination and d...

The risk of workplace violence continues to create concerns for employers and employees. According to the Bureau of Labor Stat...

Bringing scam artists to justice isn't a job for the faint of heart. Just ask attorney Dennis B. Kass, who leads his Los Angel...

Not all California procedural rules exist in the Code of Civil Procedure or Rules of Court. California courts can be endlessly...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would restrict the use of confidential discovery documents and settlement agreements outside of court...

The plaintiff could no longer deny history of smoking contributed to post-operative complications after defense attorney caug...

Sanford Jossen dropped out of high school and left home at 15, lived on the streets of Yonkers, N.Y., spent time in San Franci...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Placer County judge who was censured for grabbing his bailiff's breasts has returned to the bench after an e...

LOS ANGELES - Theodore Kesler Sterling, a former land acquisition attorney for Texaco who later discovered his own oil fields,...

On Feb. 26, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Palazzolo v. Rhode Island, 99-2047, which will be this term'...

Mediation long has existed as a viable means of dispute resolution, offering substantial advantages when compared to litigatio...

SANTA ANA - Have a gripe or compliment for the Orange County Superior Court? Attorneys who use its seven justice centers can s...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Gibson Dunn & Crutcher has welcomed back labor and entertainment attorney Jeffrey ...

One of the challenges of presiding over complex arbitrations is providing the parties the process they need without burdening ...

In the end, the doctors wound up hurting themselves. In what could be the first case of its kind to go to trial, a jury on Mar...

LOS ANGELES - Most disabled students will fail the new high-school exit exam because of the discriminatory manner in which the...

LOS ANGELES - After settling with the major record labels, and even a minor one, MP3.com, an online provider of digital music,...

LOS ANGELES - The American heir to paintings stolen by Nazis during World War II may fight to retrieve the paintings in a U.S....

SAN FRANCISCO - Firing an employee for business reasons cannot be classified as a firing due to deficient performance solely t...

SAN FRANCISCO - Executives of four of the seven new top-level domains recently approved by the Internet Corporation for Assign...

VICTORVILLE - William Komar, 70, had just plowed his car into another vehicle on a desolate stretch of I-15 last December when...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seattle's oldest and largest firm, Preston Gates & Ellis, has brought two lawyers into its San Francisco o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Take a man who's served his prison time and now tell him he'll be locked up indefinitely in a state hospital a...

LOS ANGELES - One down, one to go. Now that the Writers Guild of America has reached a tentative labor agreement with the Asso...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas & Electric Co. will formally object to the appointment of a committee to represent ratepayers ...

Dear Anne: Our law firm's Web site was developed several years ago. The information is current, but it is starting to look dat...

Traditional law enforcement never wants anyone outside the fraternity to investigate their conduct because they feel secure th...

SACRAMENTO - The state Fair Political Practices Commission ruled Monday that the Political Reform Act does not bar the city of...