Dicta Column - By Ed Bethune - Within days of Sept. 11, a friend in Congress asked me to bring retired terrorism experts to me...

Employment Column - By Mark A. Romeo - Many articles have been written on the state of the economy and the effect it has and c...

Forum Column - By Steve Dasbach - Toss those Twinkies, protect your potato chips and stash that soda because politicians want...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - In 1943, California initiated public-supported child care when it opened publicly funde...

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Busy lawyers need safe investments. Yet nothing will undermine a good investment plan like a ...

WASHINGTON - A couple of years ago, James E. Rogan was among 13 Republican congressmen who tried to blow up Bill Clinton's pre...

Dicta -Courthouse Steps - What is your worst client experience? - ;"When clients don't listen to your advice and you do what ...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers and consumer groups have successfully fought off legislation that would have restricted unfair comp...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento motorist who exposed his genitals to another driver in an incident of road rage has failed to con...

Focus Column - By Jordan S. Stanzler - Mold claims are sweeping the nation. The good news for property owners is that insuranc...

SAN FRANCISCO - If confirmed as Northern California's U.S. attorney, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Kevin Ryan may stick t...

LOS ANGELES - A Hollywood church is looking to a higher authority than a Los Angeles Superior Court for help in ridding itself...

LOS ANGELES - Labor and employment partner Anthony Oncidi has left the Los Angeles office of Dallas-based Akin, Gump, Strauss,...

SAN FRANCISCO - Make no mistake whose side state Attorney General Bill Lockyer is on in the high-stakes war against Big Tobacc...

RIVERSIDE - James Chiavetta, a Newberry Springs man convicted last year of involuntary manslaughter after the pit bull he care...

WASHINGTON - White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez expressed strong dissatisfaction Wednesday with California's bipartisan judi...

LOS ANGELES - Claiming a private investigator is a material witness in the murder case against Robert Blake, prosecutors have ...

Forum Column - By Matthew E. Cavanaugh - When I campaigned last summer for a seat on the State Bar's board of governors, I he...

Column by Garry Abrams - If the California judicial system could breathe a sigh of relief, it probably would have exhaled dee...

WASHINGTON - When President George H.W. Bush in 1990 picked David H. Souter for the Supreme Court, he was dubbed the "stealth ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court unanimously agreed Wednesday to decide whether the state's automobile "lemon law"...

SANTA ANA - The state Supreme Court's chief justice has ordered an evaluation of an Orange County jurist who reduced charges f...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two former Pelican Bay State Prison guards were found guilty by a federal jury Wednesday of a single count of ...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The process of evaluating and implementing accounting, time and billing softwar...

Focus Column - By David B. Burman - On June 5, 1998, Mary Ann Shaul was seriously injured in an automobile accident. Schaul su...

Forum Column - By Rodney Richard Jones - The notion of justice and decency coexisting seems to have evaporated. In its place,...

SAN FRANCISCO - An agreement ending California agriculture's exemption from getting permits for large sources of air pollution...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 50 public and private law firms agreed Tuesday to seek to have at least one quarter of their partner...

LOS ANGELES - On Friday, Fumiko Hachiya Wasserman will have to find space for one more award on the long windowsill of her Los...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, faced with a $23.6 billion shortfall in revenues, presented a revised state budget Tuesday that ...