Better to prepare clients for possible outcomes than to surprise them at the end. ...

SAN JOSE - The Avant criminal trade secrets case, once again, has descended into farce. Nearly four years after the Santa Clar...

Despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Wednesday upholding employers' use of mandatory arbitration agreements, California l...

SAN FRANCISCO -Two intellectual property partners, Robert Padway and Marcy Bergman, have left the San Francisco outpost of Por...

LOS ANGELES - Gun dealers in Los Angeles will have to obtain the thumbprint of firearms purchasers under one of a pair of gun-...

LOS ANGELES - An insurance company that initially refused to pay more than $3.5 million to the paralyzed victim of a rollover ...

LOS ANGELES - A union representing Los Angeles Superior Court research attorneys, law clerks and paralegals has rejected a cou...

WASHINGTON - When Saint Clair Adams applied for a sales job at a Circuit City store in Santa Rosa in 1995, he had to sign a jo...

LOS ANGELES - From the golf course of the Bel Air Country Club to a lawyer's conference room in Houston, a long and winding ro...

LOS ANGELES - State hospitals cannot drug-test pregnant women without consent and give the results to the police, the U.S. Sup...

SAN FRANCISCO - In the first such ruling by a federal circuit, an appeals court held Wednesday that victims of severe domestic...

From a juror's perspective, employment cases are unlike most other civil cases. In other matters, such as intellectual propert...

While the courts continue to define investigative standards, employers are expected to act swiftly to find out the truth and r...

On Dec. 18, 2000, the 3rd Appellate District held that when it comes to the rights of third-parties to enter private property ...

On Oct. 30, 2000, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California declared a judicial emergency, citing a case...

Peter W. Craigie of Craigie, McCarthy & Clow in San Francisco, won a $5 million jury verdict in a breach of contract suit,...

Organized labor is picking up new recruits from the ranks of student athletes and private-university graduate students. The ne...

John D. O'Connor shied away from a career as a doctor because he thought he'd be bored. So what does he do out of the starting...

This case had everything: internecine rivalry, disparate corporate cultures, lack of communication in a business whose heart i...

In Vacanti v. State Comp. Ins. Fund, 24 Cal.4th 800, 102 Cal.Rptr.2d 562 (2001), the California Supreme Court recently suggest...

In Armendariz v. Foundation Health Psychcare Services Inc., 24 Cal.4th 83 (2000), the California Supreme Court held that pre-d...

SAN JOSE - After an extraordinary confrontation in court with a defense attorney, retired California Court of Appeal Justice M...

The decision proceeds by cobbling together various statutes and torturing the meaning of at least one of them to create the de...

More and more clients and their lawyers choose electronic mail as their method of communication. It's fast and convenient, but...

Most discrimination cases are based on the disparate treatment theory, meaning that the plaintiff claims to have been treated ...

LOS ANGELES - The energy squeeze that wreaked havoc in Northern California in recent months packed a less powerful punch in So...

INDIO - A jury has recommended a death sentence for a man whose burglary-murder conviction depended in part on videotaped test...

For journalists working in California, there are few events as traumatic as the receipt of a subpoena in a criminal case. The ...

LOS ANGELES - Former clients have sued Stroock & Stroock & Lavan, accusing the New York-based firm of a catalog of mis...

VICTORVILLE - Daniel Valdivia was two days shy of his eleventh birthday when he was struck and killed by a freight train in He...