Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Paul W. Taylor - The 4th District Court of Appeal recently filed its opinio...

Book Review - By Daniel A. Olivas - Critics of the American legal system have long pointed a collective accusatory finger at t...

LOS ANGELES - William Cottrell, who was indicted this week for the August firebombings of sport utility vehicles and Hummers i...

INDIO - A Riverside Superior Court judge Wednesday refused to certify as a class action a lawsuit claiming Bridgestone/Firesto...

LOS ANGELES - The Securities and Exchange Commission went to court Tuesday to force the chief outside counsel of a Pasadena ho...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy on Wednesday told a congressional panel that federal judges who depart down...

SANTA ANA - The drunken-driving case of a former Orange County presiding judge, who severely injured a motorcyclist during a t...

LOS ANGELES - Several Los Angeles lawyers quietly have launched a letter-writing campaign on behalf of federal Judge Manuel L....

Column By Garry Abrams - The gulf between legal reality and legal television drama is starkly delineated this week with the pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seeking to add another layer of protection for investors, the Securities and Exchange Commission has issued ne...

SAN FRANCISCO - U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco has reacted to bias claims from convicted heroin dealer...

LOS ANGELES - Urban farmers on Tuesday gained a victory when a judge halted their eviction from a 14-acre garden in South Los ...

Forum Column - By Karen Bond - The press announced with glee that Martha Stewart is going to prison. What a travesty! High-pro...

Forum Column - By MKB Darmer - The conviction of Martha Stewart and her former broker, Peter Bacanovic, on March 5 was a spect...

Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal Oldman - In the matter of American Contractors Indemnity Co. v. Saladino, B1585...

Forum Column - By David Mark - First-year medical students are often told, "First, do no harm." Elections officials should hee...

LOS ANGELES - State Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Tuesday won a default judgment that could be worth $1 million against a c...

WASHINGTON - The issue of judges who "downwardly depart" from federal sentencing guidelines continues to be a sore point in re...

SAN FRANCISCO - Former U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Director Q. Todd Dickinson has been named General Electric Co.'s vice ...

LOS ANGELES - Donald C. Petersen, founding partner of the Glendale law firm Knapp, Petersen & Clarke, died March 4 at Tarz...

LOS ANGELES - In 1974, James D. Otto got his first assignment as an associate at the Los Angeles litigation firm of Cummins, W...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the biggest surprises for new San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris was to learn her 42 investi...

SAN FRANCISCO - A group of Florida lawyers failed Tuesday to piggyback on the fee request of California attorneys who settled ...

MODESTO - Stanislaus County residents who hear the name Whiteside usually equate it first with Carol Whiteside, who worked for...

LOS ANGELES - Federal prosecutors will no longer try to use information that accused double agent Katrina Leung provided in vo...

SAN FRANCISCO - The two members of the California Public Utilities Commission who opposed an agreement crucial to the bankrupt...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jason Wacha is one of the country's pre-eminent experts on open source software licensing, but the 41-year-old...

Column By Garry Abrams - The seventh anniversary of the unsolved murder of rap mogul Notorious B.I.G. passed without much noti...

Forum Column - By Griffin B. Bell and Alan K. Simpson - Legal reform is bogged down in the clear perception that what's at sta...

Forum Column - By Carrie Nixon and James Copland - "So, when do you expect the class action bill to come up in the Senate agai...