LOS ANGELES - The California State Board of Education on Thursday voted unanimously to let Carson establish its own school dis...

SAN FRANCISCO - While California continues its struggle to keep the lights on, another energy battle of older vintage appears ...

IRVINE - Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's Irvine outpost has snagged the services of O'Melveny & Myers' corporate transact...

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SAN FRANCISCO - Littler Mendelson is double-dipping from the Pittsburgh firm that provided the partners for a recently establi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The $637.5 million fee award to California lawyers in the national tobacco settlement is either incredible or ...

"How Did You Get To Be Mexican? A White/Brown Man's Search For Identity," By Kevin R. Johnson, Temple University Press, 245 Pa...

Californians labor under one of the nation's heaviest tax burdens when local, state and federal taxes are added together. That...

Technology-augmented trials are faster and more effective than those that don't use multimedia presentations. ...

It was the best of times and it was the worst of times. The Gulf War just had come to an end, and there were "no fly zones" im...

The employer must 'either intentionally create or knowingly permit' the intolerable working conditions. ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury announced Wednesday that it was unable to reach a decision on the mental soundness of a man who raped ...

SAN DIEGO - State investigators have referred their findings of alleged fraud by former Deputy District Attorney Peter J. Long...

SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has ruled that the civil code's litigation privilege that shields litigants from further l...

LOS ANGELES - In the first ruling of its kind in city history, a Los Angeles judge has declared a Venice man a bona fide membe...

SANTA ANA - Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas late Tuesday withdrew an agenda item asking the Board of Superviso...

LOS ANGELES - Two candidates for Los Angeles mayor told a gathering of lawyers Tuesday night that city government had better p...

LOS ANGELES - Say someone flattens your house - nothing left but a slab and some pipes. Do you plead theft or vandalism or som...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared reluctant Wednesday to reverse its 1994 unanimous decision barring polit...

SACRAMENTO - California's court system is flooded with cases alleging health problems from toxic mold because there are no pub...

LOS ANGELES - Today's column is about the law of unintended consequences, prosecutorial angst and dieting. Up in the wine coun...

SAN FRANCISCO - Only a year ago, Internet patents were considered precious commodities, a must-have for every startup. Back th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Handing a significant tax victory to the restaurant industry, a split federal appeals court on Wednesday inval...

Employers used to working under federal law must develop strategies for dealing with the new, more liberal California law.

The economic damages expert is retained to value "hard-to-value" items. His opinion provides the trier-of-fact with a yardstic...

When someone comes into your home to perform work, you expect to be safe. That was the thrust of an argument that won $11.5 mi...

While litigators believe that good expert witnesses are critical to trial success, not all jurors agree. Most jurors believe t...

Amicus briefs that just rehash the arguments of the parties are disfavored by courts. ...

Attorney Craig Cascarano felt infuriated when he heard that Bill Clinton had commuted the 15-year sentence of drug kingpin Car...

From opening statements to expert testimony, development of the story is a key component that persuasive presentation tools sh...