LONG BEACH - When the clock strikes 3, Judge Margaret M. Hay pours herself a cup of tea. Attorneys who practice in Hay's court...

SANTA ROSA - The Sonoma County courts were embarking on a "social experiment of grand proportions," Sebastopol mediator Gary W...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis announced the appointments Thursday of civil litigator Daniel J. Buckley and Deputy Attorney Gen...

SAN FRANCISCO - An informal gathering to honor the memory of the late San Francisco Superior Court Judge Jack Berman will be h...

LOS ANGELES - Someone in a group of police officers damaged Betty Jones' house during a gang-related search in April 1995. Yet...

SAN RAFAEL - The man stabbed by San Francisco prosecutor Floyd Andrews just moments earlier was seen pinning Andrews on his ba...

SAN DIEGO - A Superior Court judge on Thursday refused to allow broadcast coverage of pretrial proceedings or access to writte...

WATSONVILLE - Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Heather Morse is used to long days. Being the sole full-time judge servin...

LOS ANGELES - Police Chief Bernard Parks is exploring potential federal civil rights and state open meetings claims against th...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for William C. Hobbs, a longtime clinical professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angele...

Employment Column - By Luan J. McElroy - An important step in structuring a successful job search is carefully selecting appro...

Dicta Column - By Leigh Datzker - Many of my colleagues tell me how difficult and time-consuming trial preparation can be. Eve...

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Married or not, women attorneys must be prepared for the full range of financial possibilitie...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Congress is considering the passage of the Farm Security Act. At issue is the question ...

Focus Column - By Keith Phillips - The "American Rule" with regard to attorney-fee awards requires litigants to pay their own ...

MARTINEZ - Steven Wasserman stood in a courtroom and asked a jury to share his incredulity at his clients' fate. How could peo...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco International Airport has failed to meet the "most basic needs" of deaf or hearing-impaired trav...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council declined on Wednesday to review a decision by the Board of Police Commissioners to ...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent lawyer and aerospace industrialist John J. Roscia has died. Roscia, who worked on some of the 20th cen...

SAN JOSE - Two research scientists who defamed their former employer in thousands of postings on Internet message boards got a...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski has added a litigation partner to its expanding int...

SAN RAFAEL - The defense attorney for the San Francisco prosecutor charged in Marin County with assault with a deadly weapon p...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hospital is within its rights to fire an employee because she sued a patient who assaulted her, a state appe...

Column by Garry Abrams - Los Angeles constitutional law attorney John H. Weston was hopping mad at U.S. Attorney General John ...

SACRAMENTO - Civil filing fees and surcharges on criminal penalties could rise dramatically next year under bills making their...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles city and county prosecutors filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against the ...

Focus Column - By Kenneth A. Raskin and Richard C. Libert - Most administrators of 401(k) retirement plans probably are well a...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Despite excellent performances from Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, "High Cri...

Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - "You're our sixth lawyer," he told me. Those words would ordinarily set off alarm bells for a...

WASHINGTON - In June 1999, when Larry Hope got into an altercation with another inmate while on a chain-gang work detail at Al...