Forum Column - By Julie Ruiz-Sierra - Thirteen years ago, in Washington v Harper , 494 U.S. 210 (1990), a case involvin...

Forum Column - By Chris Ford - America's modern "culture war" dates to President Richard Nixon's attempt to redefine the divis...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Bryan D. Daly - Civil litigators frequently find themselves counseling corporate clients and ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Billing by the hour is central to private law practice today. However, using time...

LOS ANGELES - A roller-skating rink is not responsible for the 1999 deaths of two teenagers or the injuries of two others, who...

SAN FRANCISCO - Partners at Morrison & Foerster have elected Mark W. Danis as one of three firmwide managing partners for ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Randolph L. Wu, a former attorney for a ratepayer advocacy organization, was named Thursday as the chief lawye...

LOS ANGELES - Tom Warren, who successfully prosecuted former Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George W. Trammell III on corrup...

Reporter's Notebook - By Dennis J. Opatmy - When the San Francisco Superior Court's criminal division decided to consolidate i...

LOS ANGELES - The family of a infant boy whose arm was partially severed in a police chase last year have filed suit against t...

LOS ANGELES - A former Municipal Court judge and county bar president defeated six other candidates to win election from Los A...

LOS ANGELES -Three Beverly Hills attorneys targeted by authorities for misusing the state's unfair-competition law to file tho...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Fresno Court of Appeal panel gave three land use lawyers a public spanking for submitting a flawed administr...

SAN JOSE - The first person to qualify for release under California's Sexually Violent Predator Act will be sent within three ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Kamala D. Harris recalls prowling San Francisco's Tenderloin at midnight looking for an Oakland girl who had t...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge David P. Yaffe may be eligible for retirement. But that doesn't mean Yaffe's re...

Forum Column - By Rebecca K. Glenberg - Imagine living in a neighborhood controlled by a central authority that has power over...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Mark Goldowitz - Continuing a pattern from last year, much judicial and legislative activity th...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Michelle A. Reinglass - The 6th District Court of Appeal has decided, apparently on first i...

SAN FRANCISCO - Federico Rocha, a veteran Oakland police officer with a doctorate in public administration, has been nominated...

LOS ANGELES - Mountain View's Fenwick & West is winding down operations at its Washington, D.C., office, chairman Gordon D...

SANTA ANA - A Glendora attorney was sentenced Wednesday to three years in state prison, one year in county jail and three year...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Reinhardt and Alex Kozinski, the most outspoken judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, will de...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Wednesday confirmed Victor J. Wolski as a judge for the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, ending yet an...

LOS ANGELES - When the South Gate City Council slashed the salary of City Clerk Carmen Avalos by 90 percent in the fall, Avalo...

LOS ANGELES - Actor Robert Blake is asking the judge in his upcoming murder trial to take immediate testimony from a witness w...

SANTA ANA - Just a day after Orange County Superior Court employees picketed the Central Justice Center, a union official said...

SAN BERNARDINO - Two San Bernardino brothers molested by their Little League Baseball coach when they were teens filed a propo...

LOS ANGELES - For one night each summer, an organization founded to assist the region's disadvantaged elderly population becom...

SACRAMENTO - Assemblyman Darrell Steinberg, D-Sacramento, has succeeded in moving along a bill banning secret settlements in e...