For 20 years, Joe Posner wrote a column in the Daily Journal that educated the bar on employment-law issues. Combining an advo...

LOS ANGELES - Seven months after the American Civil Liberties Union sued California over its allegedly shoddy school systems, ...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a strongly worded decision favoring disabled rights, a federal judge has ruled United Parcel Service canno...

Amendments to the Fair Employment and Housing Act have expanded the scope of its protection and reversed restrictive state-cou...

Although all attorneys know that they have fiduciary obligations to clients, they may not realize the responsibilities they ow...

SAN FRANCISCO - A voter-approved ban on leg-hold traps in California does not apply to federal wildlife managers who are tryi...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Robert J. O'Neill is retiring Dec. 31, after a 20-year career in which he became nationally k...

LOS ANGELES - The city of Los Angeles' civil liability tab for the Rampart police corruption scandal crept to $29 million foll...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted a former employee of the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles Wednesday...

LOS ANGELES - Three weeks after filing a federal lawsuit, 12 Latino garment workers have received a $62,000 settlement from XO...

LOS ANGELES - Sixteen-year-old Adrian R. hangs around the wrong crowd in the wrong places, according to prosecutors. Possessin...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for Henry S. Rose, Los Angeles attorney and international trade specialist. Rose ...

SEATTLE - One year ago today, an Algerian-born man with a trunk full of explosives and a motel reservation near the Seattle Ce...

The U.S. Supreme Court struck a blow for literacy Tuesday night. As television correspondents, wire services and commentators ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco public defenders are trained to battle opponents in the courtroom, but the Tuesday election vic...

WASHINGTON - In his biting dissent from Tuesday's election-ending Supreme Court ruling, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote, "Alth...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles County prosecutor reached a $480,000 deal to end a six-year legal battle she waged for being demot...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco is home to yet another newspaper controversy. The inaugural edition of "California DUI News," ex...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Esten's job is to talk juries out of sentencing killers to death. He likes to show them a photograph of a ...

Florida voters aren't as inept as some people think, according to Southwestern University School of Law professor Ira Shafirof...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court's 5-4 decision late Tuesday blocking a recount of Florida votes for president, and effectively ...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco litigation firm Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold recently elected five new partners for 2001 a...

European politicians and intellectuals recently gathered in Paris under the aegis of the Group Against the Death Penalty in th...

Less than nine months after opening a new building in San Diego, San Francisco-based Brobeck Phleger & Harrison has signed...

SAN JOSE - All applicants to county-certified drug and alcohol recovery homes will be required to submit to criminal backgroun...

SANTA ANA - A consumer watchdog group has filed a lawsuit against the maker of a bracelet that's supposed to improve the weare...

SAN DIEGO - During its annual holiday party Thursday night at the Hilton La Jolla Torrey Pines starting at 6 p.m., the San Die...

In a major victory for current owners of property forced to pay environmental cleanup costs of contamination they did not caus...

SANTA ANA - A teen-ager who went to prison for a robbery conviction that was later overturned has sued police in the case, eve...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing her new duties as president-elect of the Bar Association of San Francisco and as the leader of her firm...