Focus Column - By Natalie P. Vance - A recent pair of California Supreme Court cases clarifies when a property owner will be r...

LOS ANGELES - President Bush has appointed five individuals to the board of directors of the Legal Services Corp., the federal...

Column by Garry Abrams - If somebody handed you a rotten, stinking, wormy apple, would you take a bite? Yeah, I know some of y...

Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - In a negotiation, your job as persuader is to influence your opponent to change his or he...

Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Here are some ideas that may help attorneys save some money when preparing their 2001 tax ret...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - The Bush administration is awash in secrets these days. The Washington Post, for exampl...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - In the family law system, there are two types of judicial officers that preside over cases...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - With the rise in the popularity of binding arbitration of employme...

PASADENA - Services have taken place for Fred W. Brandt, an insurance defense lawyer who is remembered by fellow lawyers as a ...

SANTA ANA - With 268 write-in votes in the primary, Dana Point attorney John Adams not only got himself in a runoff with incum...

LOS ANGELES - Santa Monica-based Liner Yankelevitz Sunshine & Regenstreif has recruited two new senior lawyers, who start ...

LOS ANGELES - Lee G. Paul, the last surviving name partner at Los Angeles' Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker, has died at ...

SAN JOSE - A month after signing a permanent injunction barring two research scientists from launching personal attacks agains...

LOS ANGELES - When Santa Monica attorney Joseph Hartley asked a lawyer who was representing his client's insurer to do a few d...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court announced Tuesday that attorneys who volunteer to take death penalty appeals will...

Focus Column - By Michael J. Bleck and Brad Keil - America's corporate boards are on a record-setting pace in replacing their ...

SAN BERNARDINO - One of Judge W. Robert Fawke's most heart-wrenching cases involved an 8-year-old girl who died after a stray ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The federal government's zero-tolerance drug policy for public housing tenants got the OK on Tuesday from the ...

Forum Column - By Susan Lerner - The battle over the now-rejected nomination of Charles Pickering to the 5th U.S. Circuit Cour...

Forum Column - By Susanna Dokupil - Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee fired the latest salvo in the battle over the pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury ended the strange and sensational criminal case against Marjorie Knoller and Robert Noel with guilty ve...

LOS ANGELES - He has been slapped with slum violations and paid thousands of dollars in fines, but lawyers for a tenants' righ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury in Los Angeles has awarded $1.5 million in compensatory damages to a Beverly Hills real estate in...

Column by Garry Abrams - In the cavalcade of crime in Los Angeles, some events stand out because they so dramatically illustra...

UKIAH - Frank Brady told officers he accidentally ignited a wildfire while trying to heat up bath water to soak his hemorrhoid...

SAN DIEGO - Superior Court Judge Bonnie Dumanis, who hopes to unseat incumbent District Attorney Paul Pfingst in the November ...

Forum Column - By Jonathan Watkins - If you were one of the 130 million people who tuned into the Super Bowl this year, you pr...

VAN NUYS - Judge Darlene Elizabeth Schempp commands her courtroom like a mothership. Schempp has a reputation as a straightfor...

Focus Column - By Peter J. Engstrom - You file an action on behalf of your client in Superior Court. The defendants respond wi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co.'s unusual proposal to repay $2 billion to a group of major creditors at 7.5 perce...