Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Reichmarshall Hermann Goering of the Third Reich once said: "It is always a simple matter to...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Charles W. "Tim" McCoy Jr. takes quality standards seriously. So seriously that he's written a book - "Why...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A judge has ordered Richard and Agnes Wiebe to stand trial on charges that they refused to seek medical att...

LOS ANGELES - Garment workers who sewed clothes sold by Forever 21 have reached a settlement with a major Los Angeles clothing...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a quarter-century of being a trial lawyer, Terence McMahon has never found a case he couldn't litigate. The...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer's tribute for Malcolm Archbald, founder of Archbald & Spray in Santa Barbara, will take place on Ma...

Dicta Column - By Andrew T. Cavagnaro and Elise G. Devecchio-Cavagnaro - How juries interact and make decisions is extremely c...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Many lawyers feel an icy panic when they get a letter from the State Bar office of th...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John Steven West - Should a mother be presumed to be unfit to have custody of her childre...

Focus Column - By David M. Grey - The limitation on liquidated damages in the California Association of Realtor's form "Reside...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to amend California's three-strikes sentencing law to exclude individuals convicted of minor crimes cl...

LOS ANGELES - After District Attorney Steve Cooley took office last year, detectives and victims' relatives persuaded him to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge will be asked today to assess China's judiciary as he determines which country's courts...

SACRAMENTO - California may be on the cutting edge of using technology to provide greater access to the legal system, but cour...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County man has pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a fatal methamphetamine lab explosion, leav...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for Global Crossing employees are getting a boost from Enron employee lawyers in a lawsuit filed Tuesday...

OAKLAND - An Alameda County jury has returned a $1 million verdict against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for retaliat...

SACRAMENTO - Consumer advocates urged members of two state legislative committees Tuesday to pass legislation banning mandator...

SAN JOSE - In a test of a new federal law designed to protect churches from unnecessarily burdensome land use restrictions, a ...

LOS ANGELES - Robert Robinson was halfway through an eight-year prison term when the prospect of earning money caught his eye....

LOS ANGELES - Marjorie Knoller underwent cross-examination Tuesday by a San Francisco prosecutor who attacked her assertions t...

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities Tuesday charged an Orange County legal secretary with mail fraud for orchestrating a scheme ...

LOS ANGELES - Former Interior Secretary and Arizona Gov. Bruce Babbitt has taken the helm of a new company that will help deve...

Focus Column - By Richard Chernick - Some business people who would otherwise embrace arbitration as an effective alternative ...

Forum Column - By Edward C. Stark - I recently opposed an attorney who was an embarrassment to his client, to me, to the judge...

LOS ANGELES - Mayor Jim Hahn announced his support Monday for the completion of the $154 million Belmont Learning Complex in a...

WASHINGTON - When the Supreme Court issues a watershed decision, it's a good bet the justices will have to return to it repeat...

LOS ANGELES - Horse owners have lost their bid to block the state Department of Parks and Recreation from evicting their anima...

Forum Column - By Stephen Yagman - What is terrorism? Is it sufficient to say, as U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart is...

SAN FRANCISCO - Four of the major producers of electricity for California engaged in thousands of instances of double-selling ...