SACRAMENTO - An advisory committee on rules for the federal judiciary has again voted to recommend the federal courts allow l...

LOS ANGELES - As chairman of the last three winning campaigns for Los Angeles mayor, attorney Bill Wardlaw cemented himself as...

SAN FRANCISCO - For several years, Teveia Barnes worked exclusively with pro bono clients at her small law clinic in San Rafa...

Palm Springs is home to a vibrant gay community. But, according to a recently filed suit, the city's Police Department is bias...

LOS ANGELES - Litigator Michael Novicoff jumped from his own firm, Reuben & Novicoff, to Westwood's Liner Yankelevitz Sun...

SAN FRANCISCO - James J. Corbett, the great Irish-American boxer known as Gentleman Jim, was born in San Francisco and fought ...

INDUSTRIAL ANAHEIM - Phil Bollman purchased a 6,700-square-foot industrial building at 977 Enterprise Ave. from an undisclose...

LOS ANGELES - A Southland federal air marshal, grounded last year after criticizing an article in People magazine that he bel...

Employment Column - By Lin M. Meyer - California law abhors forfeiture, and when it comes to employee wages, contract terms ca...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Fredrick Booke - In Moncharsh v. Heily & Blas , 3 Cal.4th 1 (1992), the...

Forum Column - By Clay Calvert - The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects the press from most forms of government...

Book Review - By Justice Richard M. Mosk - A few decades ago, there were few lawyers who specialized in arbitration - either d...

SAN FRANCISCO - Morrison & Foerster is a 1,000 lawyer firm with 19 offices worldwide and practices ranging from intellect...

SAN DIEGO - In a ruling that provides guidance for use of evidence during retrials, a state appeals court has determined that...

LOS ANGELES - A firearm discovered during an illegal police search is allowable evidence, a sharply divided federal appeals p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Comparing your client to Charles Manson while trying to persuade a jury to spare his life is probably not a go...

SAN FRANCISCO - The city of Oakland doesn't want you to know that Chief Assistant City Attorney Randolph W. Hall made $181,72...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside Superior Court jury decided Thursday that Philip Morris Inc. was not to blame for a 51-year-old former...

SAN DIEGO - The scuttlebutt about Justice Patricia D. Benke is that she was at the top of the shortlist for a seat on the sta...

Letter to the Editor - Professor [Erwin] Chemerinsky, who I generally have a lot of respect for, has sunk to a new low by comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - California's prison system is already under pressure from the U.S. Supreme Court to end its long-standing prac...

INDUSTRIAL EL SEGUNDO - Alliance Commercial Properties purchased the 206,000-square-foot El Segundo Research Center at 501 Con...

Forum Column - By William J. Becker Jr. - As a world's great religion transitions into a new period of leadership, it is not a...

Forum Column - By Allan N. Littman - Unfortunately, breaches of fiduciary duty continue to be pervasive, and they can cause gr...

Focus Column - Insurance Law - By Kirk A. Pasich - Almost all insurance policies contain notice requirements. And most people ...

SANTA ANA - Bob Chatterton, a retired Orange County criminal defense attorney who made his mark as a steely-eyed homicide pro...

ONTARIO - Sarah Weddington thought she had ended the abortion battle when she persuaded the U.S. Supreme Court to legalize th...

RIVERSIDE - Saying that Ontario police might face retaliation if they sued as individuals, a federal judge has certified a cl...

Column - By Garry Abrams - Alas, the perfect legal excuse, the absolutely guaranteed, works-every-time, get-out-of-jail-free c...

WEB EXCLUSIVE: SAN FRANCISCO - Jason McDonell, a litigator who began his career at Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro and went on ...