On Oct. 30, 2000, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California declared a judicial emergency, citing a case...

Peter W. Craigie of Craigie, McCarthy & Clow in San Francisco, won a $5 million jury verdict in a breach of contract suit,...

Organized labor is picking up new recruits from the ranks of student athletes and private-university graduate students. The ne...

John D. O'Connor shied away from a career as a doctor because he thought he'd be bored. So what does he do out of the starting...

This case had everything: internecine rivalry, disparate corporate cultures, lack of communication in a business whose heart i...

In Vacanti v. State Comp. Ins. Fund, 24 Cal.4th 800, 102 Cal.Rptr.2d 562 (2001), the California Supreme Court recently suggest...

In Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services Inc., 24 Cal.4th 83 (2000), the California Supreme Court held that pre-d...

SAN JOSE - After an extraordinary confrontation in court with a defense attorney, retired California Court of Appeal Justice M...

The decision proceeds by cobbling together various statutes and torturing the meaning of at least one of them to create the de...

More and more clients and their lawyers choose electronic mail as their method of communication. It's fast and convenient, but...

Most discrimination cases are based on the disparate treatment theory, meaning that the plaintiff claims to have been treated ...

LOS ANGELES - The energy squeeze that wreaked havoc in Northern California in recent months packed a less powerful punch in So...

INDIO - A jury has recommended a death sentence for a man whose burglary-murder conviction depended in part on videotaped test...

For journalists working in California, there are few events as traumatic as the receipt of a subpoena in a criminal case. The ...

LOS ANGELES - Former clients have sued Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, accusing the New York-based firm of a catalog of mis...

VICTORVILLE - Daniel Valdivia was two days shy of his eleventh birthday when he was struck and killed by a freight train in He...

LOS ANGELES - Rebecca Avila, the leader of a campaign-finance-research project at the University of Southern California, has j...

SACRAMENTO - After a wait of more than two years, Gov. Gray Davis on Tuesday made his first two appointments of public members...

SACRAMENTO - The unification of superior and municipal courts has vastly improved the state judicial system and its public ser...

SAN BERNARDINO - San Bernardino officials have reinstated a city law that prevents the City Council from hiring outside lawyer...

SAN JOSE - Employees who are leaving out-of-state companies to take jobs in California are getting more aggressive - and succe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sharply curtailing an antitrust case by 27 independent booksellers, a federal judge has ruled that the group c...

SEATTLE - Some law-oriented "Survivor" fans may have noticed an eerie resemblance between the wildly popular CBS reality show ...

LOS ANGELES - The best years are the first years, if you're on television. Continuing the nation's obsession with all things l...

LOS ANGELES - A California appellate court handed Warner Bros. studios a stunning victory Tuesday in its long-running, high-pr...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court Tuesday resolved an important intellectual-property issue with a decidedly pro-competition ruli...

The justices Tuesday, March 20, 2001 announced the following actions:

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge moved Monday to block one of the Clinton administration's final, controversial environmental p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Timothy Tosta, the chairman of the real-state and land-use group at the Bay Area's Baker & McKenzie office...

For the past couple of centuries, we have acknowledged childhood as a distinct period in a person's life and have treated chil...