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By John McCloud Though the San Francisco office market is not nearly so frenetic as it was earlier this year, no one should t...

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^^OPINION^^ By Lee Jay Berman The front page of a recent Los Angeles Times carried a horrifying headline affecting mediators ...

By Kenneth Moscaret As an attorney-fee expert, I have been retained by public-entity defendants in California (e.g., cities a...

The State Allocation Board, the California agency that divvies up funds for new school construction, has voted unanimously to ...

For twists and turns, complicated nuances and entanglements, plain old subterfuge and good old-fashioned detective work, few c...

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By Armand Arabian As a student at Boston University School of Law, I was moved by two quotations that would later influence m...

SANTA ANA - Declining to rule on a receiver's final accounting in a complex investment fraud case, an Orange County Superior C...

A judge Thursday ordered prosecutors to deliver to the court documents sought by defense attorneys for two convicted felons wh...

On the day the 37-year-old electrical technician departed to inspect and repair a potential fault condition in the 480-volt, 1...

Judge James Petrucelli of the Fresno County Superior Court got started later than most - he didn't enroll in law school until ...

RIVERSIDE - County officials are partly responsible for dozens of sick and elderly residents losing at least $1.7 million doll...

Although it may be "reprehensible" for a man to make plans to engage in sex with a 13-year-old girl, merely making the plans o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown asked a state appellate court to exempt Brown from a political conflict...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors drinking vodka, inscrutable verdict forms and, perhaps above all, the sheer size of the award are all r...

RIVERSIDE - County Supervisor Jim Venable doesn't know exactly what a rave is. What he does know is that he doesn't want any m...

Deportation Defense Decision Softens Harshness of 1996 Immigration Act The 9th Circuit has found that certain convictions tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has voted to reconsider its dismissal of invasion of privacy suits by truck drivers ...

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