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...

LOS ANGELES - Ben Shimpff admits he's not perfect. But he's no pervert. Which is why, according to his lawsuit, he got very up...

WASHINGTON - Reviewing an issue that affects thousands of elderly, widowed and disabled people each year, Supreme Court justic...

SAN FRANCISCO - The organization created to manage the Internet domain-name system is being sued by a member of its board of d...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges in an amended complaint accusing him of oral copulati...

LOS ANGELES - One of the county's most outspoken and articulate advocates on behalf of the rights of foster children is moving...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up the son of a minister in East Los Angeles and in San Francisco's Mission District, Commissioner David...

SAN FRANCISCO - West Hollywood lawyer Brian D. Witzer tried to bribe witnesses and must be disqualified from representing clie...

SAN DIEGO - They are rare, those up-and-comers whose talent so overshadows their greenness that employers beckon them to the f...

WASHINGTON - The Department of Justice announced Tuesday it is aggressively opposing any moves to change federal crack and pow...

LOS ANGELES - The case against two San Francisco lawyers charged in the dog-mauling death of a neighbor went to a Los Angeles ...