Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - As we mark the life and times of Martin Luther King Jr. and celebrate his life this month, i...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Defendants sentenced to life in prison under California's three-strikes l...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles judge has tossed out a $425,000 jury award to a former Locke High School art teacher who claimed s...

SAN DIEGO - From her office on the 19th floor of a high-rise, Dana Schwartz occasionally broke from her legal work and watched...

LOS ANGELES - The Fresno Superior Court today opened its Self-Help Education and Information Center for Spanish-speaking litig...

SAN DIEGO - A memorial service is scheduled for Janeen Kerper, a California Western School of Law professor and international...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court panel has reversed the death sentence of the oldest inmate on California's death row, sa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tom Shoesmith visited Shanghai for the first time in December, touring the city's business and cultural attrac...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to consider whether municipalities can bar nonresidents from city-owned public...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Failure loomed large during one of the first cases retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Robert E. Th...

Employment Column - By Phillip R. Maltin - Lawyers who sue employers for wrongful termination should have a complete understan...

LOS ANGELES - Convicted rapist Richard Minsky had an unusual con going - he got women to have sex with him by phoning them at ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A local journalists' group announced Thursday that it is honoring Chief Justice Ronald M. George for his effor...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Securities and Exchange Commission unanimously approved new rules Thursday requiring corporate lawyers to ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge backed away Thursday from imposing a gag order in the controversial marijuana cultivation pro...

Forum Column - By John P. McGill - The California Supreme Court's decision in Jimenez v. Superior Court, 29 Cal. 4th 47...

SAN FRANCISCO - A retrial of a police brutality lawsuit against Humboldt County officials stemming from an infamous incident i...

SAN FRANCISCO - It is sometimes said that Bob Crone would rather be out hunting wild turkeys. However, he's best known to the ...

LOS ANGELES - When attorney Michael S. Fields found himself in court, just three months after passing the Bar Exam, he turned ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Maybe the State Bar should go back to manual typewriters. Tuesday, a temporary technical glitch in part of the...

Focus Column - Entertainment Law - By Harrison J. Dossick - Napster may be dead, but illegal file sharing of copyright sound r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Saying "I think I would like to talk to a lawyer" does not necessarily mean a suspect wants a lawyer, and poli...

LOS ANGELES - Ontario-based Mag Instrument Inc. has won a major copy protection victory and a monetary award by the Osaka Dis...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1989, Mary C. Dunlap, fighting for tenure for professor Eleanor Swift, went directly from a Boalt Hall ral...

LOS ANGELES - California Assemblyman Todd Spitzer, R-Orange, has joined Irvine business law firm Alvarado, Smith & Sanche...

SAN FRANCISCO - Edward Rosenthal's steady stream of media interviews defending medical marijuana during his federal trial for...

Forum Column - By Charles E. Rice - The U.S. Supreme Court has the last word, but for now, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...

LOS ANGELES - Newport Beach couple John and Christy Clarey shared a family, their multimillion-dollar company - and even thei...

Column By Garry Abrams - The University of California thinks it can get faster justice and more money in a California state co...

Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas Hansen, who took over this mon...