LOS ANGELES - Two recent court decisions have upheld the broad discretion of the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Park...

OAKLAND - Three police officers who called themselves the Riders used violence, coercion and trumped-up evidence to terrorize ...

LOS ANGELES - In a highly unusual decision, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge Thursday tossed out a $78 million jury fraud ve...

LOS ANGELES - Taking the witness stand in a wheelchair, the 89-year-old mother of an El Monte man shot and killed by police te...

SAN FRANCISCO -For nearly 20 years, the United States Patent and Trademark Office has been attempting to transform its 200-yea...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Tyndall III, a trial lawyer with 30 years' experience in toxic-tort, First Amendment, libel and class act...

WEST COVINA - West Covina probate attorney Wendell Davis, a globetrotting track-and-field fan, has died. Davis died of a strok...

SAN FRANCISCO - Altheimer & Gray, a 360-lawyer business and litigation firm based in Chicago, has opened an office in San ...

Dicta Column - By Ida O. Abbott - Law firms committed to associates' professional development ensure that associates receive w...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - There are bottom-line benefits to developing a diverse legal profession. Given th...

Ditca Column - By Donald E. Griffith - After practicing law for close to 10 years, I decided to switch to a job where I could ...

Forum Column - By Julie Ruiz-Sierra - One of history's little-known ironies is that a Scottish physician by the name of Alexan...

Focus Column - By Louis E. Michelson and Boyd D. Hudson - Nonprofit organizations with controversial causes should learn how t...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Whenever a client favors his or her lawyer or a relative of the lawyer with a gift, i...

Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Just as beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, so harassment may be in the eye of...

SAN DIEGO - A judge presiding over the trial of David A. Westerfield on Wednesday suspended jury deliberations for three more ...

Focus Column - By David E. Heisey - A recent opinion by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit has narrowed patent ...

SAN FRANCISCO - For 17 days last spring, Capt. Jesse Miller commanded 154 American soldiers in one of Bravo Company's toughest...

LOS ANGELES - Putting limits on a tool for taking corporate wrongdoers to court, a state appellate panel has ruled that a Los ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge Wednesday struck down a California prison rule that prevents inmates from receiving Internet-g...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis signed a measure into law Wednesday that strengthens penalties against those who practice law wit...

Column by Garry Abrams - So the Good Ship Lollipop is really the HMS Bounty and the officers are in a hanging, keelhauling, gi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Accused murderer Jane Benson requested and got powerful drug cocktails from Lake County jailers during her 19...

SAN FRANCISCO - References to plaintiff Mary Miles' alleged marijuana farming remain barred from the defamation trial of the S...

LOS ANGELES - Assistant Presiding Judge Robert A. Dukes on Wednesday became the next presiding judge of the Los Angeles Superi...

LOS ANGELES - The last thing Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Philip K. Mautino wanted to see was razor wire strung in front o...

Dicta Column - By Henry L. Hecht - The prevailing wisdom among litigators is that only deposition takers can win and only the ...

Forum Column - By Omer S.J. Williams - Thacher Proffitt & Wood, the only large law firm that had its primary office in the...

LOS ANGELES - Marking the first anniversary of Sept. 11, volunteer judges and attorneys will visit 15 Los Angeles high schools...

SAN JOSE - The co-founder and chief executive of a San Jose software company was charged Tuesday with wire fraud for fabricati...