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...

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...