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 ...

"I know a lot of dead people. Some of them still walk around but they're dead; it's just that no one's told them yet." Lines f...

A good employment lawyer is, in effect, a company's trusted family physician. Employment counsel develops a long-term relation...

The California State Bar at its annual meeting this month installed on its Board of Governors five lawyers who, the bar announ...

^^Employment Law^^ Law in Motion New Bills May Affect Business in California One new law would allow an employee to take leav...

A San Francisco judge has allowed the ACLU to shift its attack on Proposition 21, permitting the organization to argue that th...

You decide to buy a new car. You walk into the dealership and find something you like but can't afford. The salesperson descri...

SAN JOSE - Two former employees of Varian Medical Systems are free to continue firing away without restriction their online v...

Cracking down on swindlers offering phony legal services to immigrants has received a boost with a new law that goes into effe...

Renowned bankruptcy attorney Jack Stutman, founder of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, has died. Stutman, who retired several ye...

SANTA ANA - The ACLU will probably file suit against Orange County after a decision by the Board of Supervisors to allow the B...

RIVERSIDE - Seven years have passed since Anne-Marie Speaker heard the crack of the gunshot from a sheriff's sergeant that kil...

A state appellate court Tuesday threw out a malpractice suit against Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as time-barred, after ruling ...

A day after his release from immigration jail, Oscar Ochoa, one of more than 100 people who had their criminal cases overturne...

DICTA When one partner is singled out as a problem personality, the firm should take a look at its own structure before takin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal housing officials in San Francisco trampled on the First Amendment rights of three Berkeley residents...

When Gov. Gray Davis announced earlier this week that he was authorizing the parole of a convicted murderer - the first time h...

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, we're here today because my client "was stupid" - and because the star of the movie my clie...

SANTA ANA - The son of Orange County's district attorney has pleaded guilty to a felony drug charge, but he avoided a jail sen...

SACRAMENTO - The state Board of Prison Terms will be required to consider evidence of battered women's syndrome in certain par...

The Bernard E. Witkin Award Dinner continues to grow in popularity. In 1999, it drew 190 people and netted around $17,000, up ...

Rebiya Kadeer is a well-known businesswoman and mother of 10 from the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region in China. In 1995, she...

SAN DIEGO - Coast Guard and Navy crews patrolling more than 200 miles west of Panama have made what authorities said was the f...

SANTA ANA - The parents of a Buena Park teen-ager who was shot and killed last year after a Halloween prank have filed a civil...

Longtime Riverside County administrator Arthur A. Sims will be the next chief executive officer of Alameda County Superior Cou...