If it were not for the Internet, Kenneth Curtis certainly would be out of business. Banned by a 2-year-old state law aimed spe...

SACRAMENTO - A plaintiffs' lawyer who has won huge verdicts against Ford Motor Co. and the Roman Catholic Church was tapped We...

SAN FRANCISCO - Louise Renne may not be in the running to remain city attorney, but by no means is she out of the race. As the...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge J.D. Smith has won a key battle in his war with CalPERS over military credits t...

CORONA - Leave it to the state that brought you sig alerts and courthouse congestion to combine the two. Corona officials Thur...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a decision giving millions of elderly people new power to sue their health insurers, the California Supreme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A killing spree inside a San Francisco law firm spawned the nation's first posse of lawyer activists dedicated...

LOS ANGELES - Nearly four years after the Paris car crash that transfixed the globe, one of the last chapters in the lurid spe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eight years after a deadly shooting rampage at a downtown San Francisco law firm, the legal battle over who to...

LOS ANGELES - A multi-agency federal task force Thursday arrested 11 people, including a Los Angeles criminal defense lawyer, ...

LOS ANGELES - The San Francisco district attorney's office has launched an investigation into the alleged embezzlement of $3.6...

The Internal Revenue Code generally allows a taxpayer to select the method of accounting it will use to compute its taxable in...

As the pressures of everyday life increase both outside and at work, a distressing and tragic trend is occurring in the workpl...

As a native Northern Californian, Web host Jon Nash is familiar with the kinds of sudden emergencies to which denizens of the ...

Dutch semiconductor equipment manufacturer ASM Lithography gained approval from a U.S. governmental panel to buy San Jose-base...

When you are a divorce lawyer, you pick up a few tidbits of wisdom that they don't teach in law school. One of the first thing...

LOS ANGELES - San Diego's Procopio Cory Hargreaves & Savitch has acquired Ramseyer & Kuhlman, a small San Diego firm. ...

Many employers proudly boast that they have a "zero tolerance" policy with respect to their internal policies governing sexual...

A housing developer called Woodwind Estates was feeling pretty good in the fall of 1995. It had been awarded more than $1 mill...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in Los Angeles dashed the hopes of beleaguered Pacific Gas & Electric Co. on Wednesday in ...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council on Wednesday agreed to pay $366,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a man who claims...

LOS ANGELES - Facing the expiration of a $1 million federal grant that sends county prosecutors and investigators to officer-i...

LOS ANGELES - A woman whose repairman-husband died of asbestos-related cancer can sue Hamilton Beach/Proctor Silex for alleged...

SANTA ANA - The Orange County Superior Court has opened a new day-care facility filled with toys and books for children accomp...

LOS ANGELES - Geneva Burger, a 78-year-old widow, is miffed that around her Pomona neighborhood she became known as the "rappi...

SAN JOSE - In what could be a final triumph for actor-director Clint Eastwood in his battle over whether he should pay damages...

SAN JOSE - Eugene Pelka, a veteran manager at Lockheed Martin, was just trying to "roast" his longtime colleague at a dinner g...

SACRAMENTO - Power wholesaler Duke Energy confirmed Wednesday it had proposed a "global settlement" to Gov. Gray Davis in Marc...

RIVERSIDE - Justices with the 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside appeared to lean Wednesday toward allowing the parents...

ADELANTO - With Robert Zaiden Corrado as its attorney, this small High Desert city spent more than $6 million on a furious, th...