TORRANCE - Judge William G. Willett bears more than a passing resemblance to the late actor Tony Perkins. And like Perkins' fa...

LOS ANGELES - Esther Michel doesn't mind buying school gym clothes for her two daughters every year. What she does resent is t...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has blasted two Los Angeles-area lawyers for wasting the panel's time on a custody case ...

LOS ANGELES - African-American Maxine Waters demanded Thursday that Police Commission President Rick Caruso resign because he ...

LOS ANGELES - The glossy front covers of the Hollywood trade publications have been adorned with a movie star's face - often R...

SAN FRANCISCO - Pacific Gas and Electric Co., which is nearing the one-year anniversary of its Chapter 11 filing with its bank...

LOS ANGELES - A jury Thursday convicted Marjorie Knoller of second-degree murder and Robert Noel of manslaughter because of th...

Forum Column - By Matt B.F. Biren For years, negligent transactional lawyers have been arguing that they should be exempt from...

LOS ANGELES - E. Barry Haldeman, an executive vice president of Paramount Pictures, will return on May 6 to Los Angeles' Green...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - In the movie "City Slickers," there is a scene in which the three "urban cowboys" comp...

Dicta Column - Secretaries are there to help you with whatever you need; all we ask is that you allow us to do that in a struc...

Forum Column - By Mark Waterman - In 1997, the appellate court proclaimed that the "trial-within-a-trial standard for attorne...

Focus Column - By David Halberstadter and Katherine McDaniel - In a decision that could have a significant impact on business...

WASHINGTON - The fallout over the defeat of circuit court nominee Charles W. Pickering spilled out onto the Senate floor Thurs...

LOS ANGELES - Standing beside an evidence table loaded with assault rifles, handguns, bags of money, cocaine and heroin, Assis...

SACRAMENTO - On the last day of winter, as musicians lobbied the state Legislature for a bill to give them an early release fr...

Focus Column - By Karsten Klehs - Just over a year ago, the new economy was taking Wall Street by storm. Stocks were high, and...

Coloumn by Garry Abrams - Has Mickey Mouse started mugging reporters? That's the question some of us in the First Amendment Pe...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like a broken record, the long-playing legal war over the late Jerry Garcia's legendary guitars goes on and on...

SAN DIEGO - A deputy district attorney kicked a crack pipe across the courthouse hallway after his key witness in a stabbing c...

LOS ANGELES - What might have been the first obscenity trial in Los Angeles in nearly 10 years settled Wednesday before making...

LOS ANGELES - Fred Okrand, legal director emeritus of the American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Southern California and...

LOS ANGELES - A Burbank family has sued the American Dental Association and 29 other dental corporations, claiming that they c...

LOS ANGELES - One day after they began their deliberations, jurors in the trial of two San Francisco attorneys accused in the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court voted Wednesday to revisit the free speech controversy surrounding state-sponsore...

Forum Column - By Steven Heimberg - The box office success of "John Q.," a dramatization of ordinary people's frustration with...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Wednesday reinstated a portion of the defamation claim against Cable News Network ove...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The sluggish economy is finally showing signs of recovery. Law firms who alread...

Dicta Column - By Robert M. Unterberger - Lawyers generally believe that the words they use in motions and briefs are the key ...

Forum Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - In recent months, the accounting practices of major corporations have been under ever-incre...