SAN FRANCISCO - A successful defendant in a consumer case must show that a plaintiff acted in bad faith in order to recover it...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury has hit San Francisco and Laguna Honda Hospital with a $4.3 million verdict, finding the hospit...

LONG BEACH - A jury Tuesday began deliberating first-degree murder charges against Stephen Otto Reitz, who claims he was sleep...

SAN FRANCISCO - The 1st District Court of Appeal reinstated a malpractice lawsuit Tuesday against a San Francisco law firm - d...

Column By Philip Carrizosa - Remember that classic scene from a black-and-white World War II movie in which Gestapo officers i...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge Tuesday found enough evidence to hold a Lancaster couple on capital murder charges in the be...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco federal judge Thursday certified the largest private civil rights class action in U.S. history...

WASHINGTON - Saying that frivolous lawsuits are making a mockery of the American legal system, a group of House Republicans is...

Forum Column - By Matt Daniels - Summer is the traditional "wedding season" when more couples marry than at any other time of ...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Scott Frewing and Andrew Crousore - With big corporate scandals getting most of the attention from...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether prosecutors must prove that a suspect took an "overt act" tow...

SACRAMENTO - A state Evidence Code provision that creates a hearsay exception for statements made by elderly or dependent adul...

SAN FRANCISCO - People who refuse to identify themselves to police officers can face criminal penalties, a sharply divided U.S...

SACRAMENTO - Sacramento's courts are recruiting full-time court interpreters from as far away as San Diego and paying for thei...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court refused Monday to block a lawsuit against Anaheim and five of its police officers on behal...

SAN JOSE - The California Supreme Court refused Monday to grant a new trial to two men convicted of killing a Brisbane woman, ...

Services are set for today for flamboyant Orange County criminal defense lawyer David A. Zimmerman. Zimmerman died of a heart ...

LOS ANGELES - Michael Jackson's criminal defense lawyer will appeal a $18,950 sanction ordered after he referred to an unrelat...

LOS ANGELES - Michael H. Schill, a New York University law professor and leading scholar in housing law, has been appointed th...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday allowed a lawsuit to proceed that accuses the Archdiocese of Milwaukee of transferrin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Conservatives on an 11-judge federal appeals panel Monday failed to muster a six-vote majority to decide wheth...

Column By Garry Abrams - The now infamous Enron tapes, which immortalized "Grandma Millie" as the quintessential California su...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two years after Tower Snow gave Clifford Chance an opening into the California legal market by orchestrating t...

The field of structured settlements may soon face a major shift of power if the IRS makes a ruling changing the way it treats ...

Three new partners joined Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk & Rabkin in the last two weeks, with one of them travelin...

A Southland man has filed a class action against food products titan Gruma Corp. and five supermarket chains for allegedly mon...

Column - Employment Law - By Dana Cephas - Many employment cases in California proceed like this: Plaintiff files suit, discov...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer who worked as coverage counsel for Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. for 13 years can't turn around and hi...

Column - Law Practice Management - By Trey Ryder - In these days of electronic communication, lawyers often overlook one of th...

New York's Proskauer Rose has tapped Michael Woronoff to build up the firm's West Coast corporate and securities practice. Wor...