SACRAMENTO - A labor-backed bill that would make it easier for workers to pursue employers who illegally retaliate against th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defending herself against charges that she retaliated against an employee who was often ill, the director of ...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court made it tougher Thursday for local governments to get reimbursed by the state for t...

Forum Column - By Mark Schlosberg - While the criminal charges against several high-ranking San Francisco police officers in t...

Forum Column - By Joseph Sorrentino - French Premier Jacques Chirac opposed U.S. military action in Iraq based on "respect for...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - California courts generally have held that manage...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced Malibu attorney Sam Birenbaum Wednesday to complete nine months in ...

SACRAMENTO - Two of the state's top criminal justice organizations have new leaders in place. The 2,300-member California Dis...

LOS ANGELES - After an eight-month investigation, the state attorney general's office has filed a 10-count felony complaint ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four whistle-blowers who exposed overcharging by five University of California teaching hospitals were left o...

LOS ANGELES - Authorities on Wednesday arrested a former Los Angeles Internal Revenue Service agent on charges of concealing a...

SANTA ANA - A couple accused of a check-kiting scheme that netted them $12 million and involved 7 banks, 23 accounts and 2,000...

Column By Garry Abrams - Burn before reading. This old, wry, cloak-and-dagger maxim about the one sure way to keep a document ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the face of looming staff layoffs and courtroom closures, bar groups around the state have begun a coordin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Oppenheimer, Wolff & Donnelly, the Minneapolis firm that raised eyebrows in February by publicly shopping...

SAN FRANCISCO - A San Francisco jury Wednesday began hearing testimony in a suit brought by the former head librarian for the...

OAKLAND - Alameda County Superior Court Commissioner Geoffrey N. Carter has heard all kinds of excuses from motorists trying t...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Estate of Strader , 2003 DJDAR 3988 (Cal. Ap...

Forum Column - By Terry Francke - By now, most of us are aware that the acronym SLAPP stands for "Strategic Lawsuits Against P...

SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of a double murder in Berkeley in 1985 has failed to convince an Alameda County S...

LOS ANGELES - Helping build bridges between estranged family members may be one of the hardest jobs there is. And Alvin R. Sr....

SAN FRANCISCO - An Alameda County trial judge dismissed the jury Tuesday in the final phase of a $51 million firearms product ...

SANTA ANA - Rejecting a defense attorney's contention that a man sucking the toes of preteen boys was not lewd behavior, a jur...

SACRAMENTO - Californians who are members of homeowners' associations would have a greater say in how their delegates adopt or...

LOS ANGELES - A referee will hear a high-profile dispute between Marvel Characters and Sony Pictures Entertainment over the lu...

SAN JOSE - A Cupertino company found to have been the victim of trade-secrets misappropriation will get a chance to block onli...

SAN DIEGO - Lloyd's of London will pay the San Diego Padres $11.9 million in settlement of a Superior Court lawsuit over a den...

LOS ANGELES - Faced with additional budget cuts in the next fiscal year, the Los Angeles Superior Court is asking jurors to co...

LOS ANGELES - Law clerks hired by the Los Angeles Superior Court after July 25, 2001, may be out of a job in the coming years ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court in Los Angeles declined Tuesday to rule on whether lawful noncitizens are eligible to wo...