SACRAMENTO - The state's political watchdog agency adopted regulations Thursday to eliminate a financial advantage that incumb...
What is a trial? There are many models. In purely legal terms, we know that trials can be of law or fact, they can be court tr...
Counsel should never enter the inverse-condemnation end game without first informing their clients about the likely results. ...
The division between legality and corruption has never been precisely delineated. Narcotics officers are out on the street eve...
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles city attorney's office agreed Thursday to a judge's proposal to allow a religious group founded ...
SAN JOSE - The nasty battle between a Palo Alto company and two of its former employees, who have taken to the Internet to pos...
SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a zoning matter as old as the Civil War, a state appellate court on Thursday blocked a Sonoma County...
SAN FRANCISCO - Culminating a six-month search, the Bar Association of San Francisco has selected Teveia Barnes, a former bank...
LOS ANGELES - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo took part Thursday in a nationwide satellite discussion of consequences of the Se...
Imagine being abused by your husband or boyfriend. Your children have witnessed this abuse and may have been subject to abuse,...
LOS ANGELES - In what some are calling an overreaction to the threat of further Columbine-like youth violence in the public sc...
SAN FRANCISCO - While power and prestige are undeniable fringe benefits that come with a gavel, El Dorado County Presiding Sup...
SACRAMENTO - Citing California's slumping economy and the fallout from the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, Gov. Gray Davis on Thur...
LOS ANGELES - David R. Evans got hooked on criminal law during his third year of law school when a defense attorney gave him t...
LOS ANGELES - Campaign-finance lawyers say that a study that proposes tighter restrictions on wealthy candidates and third-par...
SAN DIEGO - A high-ranking drug trafficker, whose case resulted in an unprecedented ruling by the Mexican Supreme Court that a...
LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis signed an emergency measure on Thursday to restore funding to 10 domestic violence shelters. ...
The United States has struck back at terrorism. Although surgical strikes allegedly were aimed at military targets, early repo...
The proliferation of wage-and-hour class actions has transformed employee-rights law from a practice specialty into a cottage ...
The terrorist attacks that occurred exactly one month ago left indelible marks on employers throughout the country. Many compa...
Getting paid is usually up near the top of the priority list for most attorneys. Although most attorneys do some cases pro bon...
The Sept. 11th attacks manifested the hate of a few of the dispossessed against the leaders of liberal internationalism. The e...
Is it taking you three times as long as it usually does to write a contract or draft interrogatories, because you stop frequen...
SAN FRANCISCO - As hiring partners travel around the Bay Area this month looking for summer associates, they are likely to mis...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge flatly rejected a defense request Wednesday to pursue claims that federal prosecutors dispropo...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether employers face retroactive liability under a n...
SAN JOSE - Thanks to a federal judge's ruling, plaintiffs attorneys in a class action against a medical device firm will go to...
SAN FRANCISCO - Filling vacancies created after a top assistant was appointed to the superior court last week, San Francisco D...
CORONADO - The streets of this generally raucous seaside town, home to the elite U.S. Navy SEALs, were largely deserted last w...
Litigation
Mom's 'Noble Quest' Changes Firefighters Rule to Ensure Fairness
By Garry Abrams
LOS ANGELES - Stockton firefighters Brett Alan Laws, 29, and Bryan Golden, 21, went into a burning house before dawn on Feb. 6...