Forum Column - By Rick Hasen - Noting ambiguities and internal contradictions in the state's recall laws, state Supreme Court ...

Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - In his landmark 1942 book, "Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race," anthropologist ...

LOS ANGELES - An armed-robbery suspect who was paralyzed permanently from the waist down cannot sue a sheriff's deputy for all...

SANTA ANA - After months of trying to avoid additional reductions in service, Orange County Superior Court officials announced...

SAN FRANCISCO - Police officers accused by defendants of conducting illegal searches now can answer in court with an affidavit...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals panel has upheld two Los Angeles billboard ordinances, overturning a lower-court order that bl...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County prosecutor Ben Field, a potential candidate for district attorney, is under fire for his office'...

SAN FRANCISCO - Employers may be held liable for a supervisor who successfully coerces an underling into sexual acts if the vi...

LOS ANGELES - Don't get him wrong. U.S. Magistrate Judge Patrick J. Walsh loves his job. But if Walsh could change one thing -...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ron Albers didn't let losing two elections to become a San Francisco judge end his dream of holding judicial o...

SAN FRANCISCO - A State Bar committee has warned the Securities and Exchange Commission that the agency's rules encouraging at...

SAN FRANCISCO - Colleagues and friends are remembering Senior U.S. District Judge William Orrick as the independent-minded cor...

Employment Column - By Mark E. Terman - Terminating an employee without getting sued for it is not simple. Lawyers who are not...

Reporter's Notebook - By Karen Coleman - When Alameda County Deputy District Attorney Nancy Davis leaves her position next wee...

LOS ANGELES - Kenji Ito, a Japanese-American who faced arrest and internment during World War II but went on to become a leade...

SAN FRANCISCO - Starting Monday, San Francisco Superior Court will ask lawyers for more cash when filing papers. The state Leg...

LOS ANGELES - Saying the trial was marred by both prosecutorial misconduct and ineffective assistance of counsel, an appellate...

SAN FRANCISCO - The three San Francisco police officers accused of beating two men on Union Street last year will go to a prel...

LOS ANGELES - Tarzana lawyer and bankruptcy trustee Robert Dennis Pryce Jr. pleaded guilty Thursday to 49 counts of bankruptcy...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Michaelbrent Collings - Service contracts often contain mechanic's liens to ensure that c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Cooperating with a government pollution agency doesn't necessarily constitute adequate public notice of a clea...

SACRAMENTO - Debtors will find it more difficult to hide assets from their creditors by using sham divorces following a decisi...

Column By Garry Abrams - In its widely publicized suit against comedian Al Franken, Fox News Network claims that Franken viola...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Los Angeles appeals court has created a way for unhappy investors to get around the refusal of the securitie...

LOS ANGELES - The Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles is paying the fees for a private judge who has issued a secret draft rul...

INDIO - They were two couples posing for photographs one night in the privacy of a backyard hot tub, the two women choosing to...

Forum Column - By Everett Bobbitt - Although many observers were surprised by the outcome of the Inglewood "police-abuse" case...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeff Winikow - The amount of information available to legal practitioners is simply stagger...

Forum Column - By Leo James Terrell - As a civil rights attorney and radio journalist, I monitored the case of People v. Mo...