For twists and turns, complicated nuances and entanglements, plain old subterfuge and good old-fashioned detective work, few c...

SAN FRANCISCO - The indictment of two former HBO & Co. executives unsealed Thursday in one of the largest criminal stock ...

By Armand Arabian As a student at Boston University School of Law, I was moved by two quotations that would later influence m...

SANTA ANA - Declining to rule on a receiver's final accounting in a complex investment fraud case, an Orange County Superior C...

A judge Thursday ordered prosecutors to deliver to the court documents sought by defense attorneys for two convicted felons wh...

On the day the 37-year-old electrical technician departed to inspect and repair a potential fault condition in the 480-volt, 1...

Judge James Petrucelli of the Fresno County Superior Court got started later than most - he didn't enroll in law school until ...

RIVERSIDE - County officials are partly responsible for dozens of sick and elderly residents losing at least $1.7 million doll...

Although it may be "reprehensible" for a man to make plans to engage in sex with a 13-year-old girl, merely making the plans o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawyer for Oakland Mayor Jerry Brown asked a state appellate court to exempt Brown from a political conflict...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jurors drinking vodka, inscrutable verdict forms and, perhaps above all, the sheer size of the award are all r...

RIVERSIDE - County Supervisor Jim Venable doesn't know exactly what a rave is. What he does know is that he doesn't want any m...

Deportation Defense Decision Softens Harshness of 1996 Immigration Act The 9th Circuit has found that certain convictions tha...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appellate court has voted to reconsider its dismissal of invasion of privacy suits by truck drivers ...

"I know a lot of dead people. Some of them still walk around but they're dead; it's just that no one's told them yet." Lines f...

A good employment lawyer is, in effect, a company's trusted family physician. Employment counsel develops a long-term relation...

The California State Bar at its annual meeting this month installed on its Board of Governors five lawyers who, the bar announ...

^^Employment Law^^ Law in Motion New Bills May Affect Business in California One new law would allow an employee to take leav...

A San Francisco judge has allowed the ACLU to shift its attack on Proposition 21, permitting the organization to argue that th...

You decide to buy a new car. You walk into the dealership and find something you like but can't afford. The salesperson descri...

SAN JOSE - Two former employees of Varian Medical Systems are free to continue firing away without restriction their online v...

Cracking down on swindlers offering phony legal services to immigrants has received a boost with a new law that goes into effe...

Renowned bankruptcy attorney Jack Stutman, founder of Stutman, Treister & Glatt, has died. Stutman, who retired several ye...

SANTA ANA - The ACLU will probably file suit against Orange County after a decision by the Board of Supervisors to allow the B...

RIVERSIDE - Seven years have passed since Anne-Marie Speaker heard the crack of the gunshot from a sheriff's sergeant that kil...

A state appellate court Tuesday threw out a malpractice suit against Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher as time-barred, after ruling ...

A day after his release from immigration jail, Oscar Ochoa, one of more than 100 people who had their criminal cases overturne...

DICTA When one partner is singled out as a problem personality, the firm should take a look at its own structure before takin...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federal housing officials in San Francisco trampled on the First Amendment rights of three Berkeley residents...

When Gov. Gray Davis announced earlier this week that he was authorizing the parole of a convicted murderer - the first time h...