SAN FRANCISCO - A retired Air Force veteran's jackpot of $508,000 in annual California lotto payments turned into a tax nightm...

Many lawyers perceive California to be a hostile forum for an employer trying to protect its customer contacts and other trade...

SAN FRANCISCO - A U.S. District judge was right to overturn the murder convictions of two San Bernardino men based on a findin...

The report of the California State Bar's task force on multidisciplinary practice has arrived with something less than a bang....

When trial approaches, one question that trial attorneys must consider relates to what evidence they would like to have admitt...

The right to work and support oneself and one's family: what could be more basic? Most of us take that right for granted, but ...

A court need not retain jurisdiction or provide for return jurisdiction when there is no indication that the defendants will e...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles County prosecutors Monday asked the state Supreme Court to halt efforts by a Superior Court judge to...

SANTA ANA - A local campaign-finance reform activist asked the Orange County grand jury Monday to investigate two prosecutors ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Robert Carter Nawi was found guilty Monday of the first-degree murder of Virginia Lowery, the wife of one of h...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would increase workers compensation benefits by nearly 15 percent over a five-year period cleared a k...

LOS ANGELES - A prestigious panel of the American Bar Association has recommended that California take its attorney discipline...

SAN FRANCISCO - A long-time San Francisco public defender has filed a claim against the city asserting that police officers vi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Malcolm Wittenberg, the lead patent attorney for Oakland's Crosby Heafey Roach & May, has agreed to plead ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gang killings in Santa Ana and Fontana led to distinctly different decisions by the California Supreme Court o...

LOS ANGELES - Somewhere, Dionne Warwick and her friends must be smiling. A Santa Monica hearing examiner has plumbed the metap...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would effectively overrule two recent family law decisions by the California Supreme Court and place ...

LOS ANGELES - Thursday night's Landau Lawyers League "C" division final between O'Melveny & Myers and Quinn Emanuel figure...

LOS ANGELES - Although the Los Angeles public defender has complained to a state judicial watchdog agency about a Superior Cou...

Homestore.com Inc. has agreed to buy Iplace Inc. from MemberWorks Inc. The cash-and-stock deal is worth $150 million. Westlake...

Media conglomerate Walt Disney Co. is buying children's cable network Fox Family Worldwide Inc. from News Corp. Ltd. and telev...

Foley & Lardner has opened a second office in the San Diego area to better serve the needs of its clients, particularly th...

Traditionally concerned with real estate matters, Safeway's 22-attorney in-house law department has become increasingly involv...

San Bruno payroll-service company InLeague Inc. has secured $10 million in Series B funding from Mohr Davidow Ventures and the...

When Congress enacted the Endangered Species Act in 1973, members of Congress proudly proclaimed to voters how the act was goi...

Given the current economic climate in the Silicon Valley, Sullivan & Cromwell partner Matthew Hurd is pleasantly surprised...

Ah, Northern California. The land of the Golden Gate Bridge, vast redwood forests ... and soon, a new office for Best Best &am...

SANTA ANA - The Stork Club has lost its first member. While her six pregnant colleagues from the Orange County public defender...

LOS ANGELES - An African-American family has sued Denny's, claiming racial discrimination by staff at a Torrance outlet of the...