SAN JOSE - The San Jose city attorney's office is defending a lawsuit filed by one of its own former investigators, an African...

RIVERSIDE - A former Riverside prosecutor has settled a discrimination and retaliation lawsuit that she filed against the Rive...

LOS ANGELES - Larry Klayman, the conservative legal gadfly who brought you Chinagate, Filegate and a host of lawsuits against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A "rolling depression" has set in at the Bar Association of San Francisco. The outfit's CLE director, Barbara ...

LOS ANGELES - A history teacher who suffered mild brain damage when a Federal Express driver accidentally knocked her to the g...

SAN JOSE - In a victory for a cable company that could have broader implications for the industry, a federal judge has rejecte...

The U.S. Supreme Court had the opportunity to rock the EPA and other agencies off their foundations but declined the invitatio...

LOS ANGELES - The Century City Bar Association recently honored three Los Angeles lawyers and the American Arbitration Associa...

Much has been written lately about the digital divide. A bunch of do-gooders are worried that too many in our society have bee...

You intend to type in Referee.com but erroneously go to eReferee.com instead. In so doing, you are stepping into a debate abou...

According to California Attorney General Bill Lockyer, 225,000 cases of elder abuse occur annually in California. He estimates...

Despite running into one stumbling block after another, Semtek International Inc. will continue its long-running legal fight w...

What do lawyers think judges wear under their robes, anyway? ...

Want to find out what your friends are making at other firms? How do their benefits compare to yours? Like just about everythi...

We should go much further than the required constitutional adequacy for voir dire about racial biases described by Laurie Leve...

The proposed Model Franchise Disclosure Law aims high but may fall slightly short of its mark. ...

Rarely has a company name so aptly described its present situation as Critical Path Inc., an e-mail hosting company that finds...

I have been wondering lately if acting skills are useful to judges. Forrest McDonald, in his book "The American Presidency: An...

LOS ANGELES - Labor specialist John F. O'Hara, who was instrumental in the reform of the state's workers' compensation program...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court jury Thursday awarded $8.2 million to Allstate Insurance Co. after finding three do...

Patrick McCoy's world got shaken up last week, and he's still feeling the aftershocks. His restaurant, McCoy's Firehouse Bar &...

LOS ANGELES - A man who claimed he spent more than seven years in state prison after corrupt former Los Angeles police officer...

SACRAMENTO - Even before a campaign-finance reform measure was passed by voters last November, a state agency charged with enf...

SAN DIEGO - Orange County Superior Court Judge Raymond J. Ikola refused Thursday to set aside a $94.5 million judgment that de...

RIVERSIDE - Parents who inherit money while their children are on food stamps must list that one-time windfall as income when ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oakland resident and State Bar veteran Ann Wassam has been named executive director of the Alameda County Bar ...

SAN FRANCISCO - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer is developing a legislative proposal to overhaul the state's groundbreakin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas A. Van Zandt, a Silicon Valley patent law firm associate who lives in Mill Valley, filed Thursday to ru...

INDIO - Peggy Baker died of ovarian cancer more than a year ago. But last month her image filled a courtroom and jurors hung o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge known for his hands-on interest in securities litigation held a highly unusual job interview i...