LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles restaurant's suit against television station KCBS for reporting that county health inspectors gave...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's not a robbery if nothing is taken from the victim, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday. In a unan...

SAN JOSE - Litigation between technology companies and their departing employees got headline treatment in 2000, as attorneys ...

LOS ANGELES - For Dr. Ali Karim, the year 2000 started much as the previous few, confined at the INS Detention Center on Termi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Prior convictions discovered belatedly by prosecutors after jurors are discharged cannot be added to a crimina...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Ricks Nibley, a retired senior partner of Los Angeles' Hill Farrer & Burrill, has died. Nibley died D...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state public utilities commissioner should be ousted because he bought stock in a company he regulates, a go...

LOS ANGELES - The year 2000 saw much political wrangling between the mayor, police chief and City Council over a Los Angeles c...

LOS ANGELES - A 23-year-old El Segundo man probably will plead guilty today to federal charges for sending out a bogus news re...

After an eight-year legal battle , Microsoft Corp. has agreed to pay $97 million to settle a class action brought by former te...

Forms 1099 are one of the primary ways that the Service tracks payments and generates audits.

Contrary to public opinion, the new millennium starts this New Year's Day: The U.S. Naval Observatory, the keeper of the natio...

The 2000 California legislative session proved to be active in the employment arena. Here is a brief summary of some of the ne...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County woman has sued Disneyland, claiming she hurt her shoulder while putting her daughter on a ride th...

LOS ANGELES - The Regents of the University of California have extended a plan to guarantee top-performing high-school student...

I recently read an article about a Silicon Valley law firm that claims to receive more than 10,000 inquiries a year from poten...

Law firms increased associate salaries this year in the hopes of countering the lure of startup companies in emerging fields. ...

All of the hoopla surrounding the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in the presidential election has overshadowed other questiona...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Maurice F. Twitchell, longtime Santa Maria attorney and partner at Twitchell and R...

An employer must identify and provide, on a preferential basis, permanent alternative employment that meets the employee's res...

Finding the truth in a full hearing with all witnesses present is of paramount importance in family law cases. Failing to find...

LOS ANGELES - Although boosters dubbed it a resounding success, economists and First Amendment advocates said the Democratic N...

SAN FRANCISCO - A key decision announced Wednesday by the U.S. Justice Department clears the way for the official unification ...

Acting on behalf of a Silicon Valley startup that it refused to name, a law firm has asked the Justice Department to investiga...

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere between a mensch and a schnorrer stands famed palimony lawyer Marvin M. Mitchelson. Not that he falls ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was a tax deduction any dummy could love, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned thumbs down on i...

LOS ANGELES - Ben Gales strode into the welfare office on a quiet, grimy street near downtown's industrial district, armed wit...

LOS ANGELES - The smell wafting across Los Angeles this week is from the rotting corpse of the criminal justice system. Even i...

SAN FRANCISCO - There's nothing like the New Year to inspire people to indulge in fortunetelling. In keeping with this oracula...

SAN FRANCISCO - It's been a very big year for the nation's largest federal appeals court. Most of its vacancies were filled an...