SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court ruled Thursday that a divorced father cannot escape his child support obligations just...

SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's largest federal appellate court, long seen as the cutting edge of legal trends, once again in 200...

LOS ANGELES - District Attorney Steve L. Cooley can be sued for malicious prosecution by a defense lawyer who claims he was fa...

Entertainment Law Practitioner Column by David Halberstadter - In his 1928 novel "Point Counter Point," Aldous Huxley observed...

LOS ANGELES - On Oct. 26, President Bush signed the USA PATRIOT Act into law, giving sweeping new powers to both domestic law-...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis filled a vacant seat on the 6th District Court of Appeal on Thursday by elevating Santa Clara ...

LOS ANGELES - A management consultant hired by the county Board of Supervisors recommends stripping the county counsel of its ...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Michael Bruce Harwin is a hero in a black robe. Harwin saved a dozen lives when he disarmed a crazed gunma...

SAN FRANCISCO - More than 80 percent of the claims filed against Pacific Gas and Electric Co. - most so small the total equals...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Gray Davis on Thursday appointed Keker & Van Nest trial lawyer Jon S. Tigar to the Alameda County Sup...

LOS ANGELES - Medical malpractice defense and general tort liability partner Michael Martinez, formerly with 23-lawyer O'Flahe...

Forum Column by Steven Zak - That we're a country united is a nice illusion until you read what conservatives truly think of e...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for a former high-tech executive who has pleaded guilty in an Internet sex case got his federal court ...

LOS ANGELES - A graphic artist who was fired for questioning her employer's attitude toward homosexuals won a $314,000 verdict...

Forum Column by Earl Ofari Hutchinson - Attorney General John Ashcroft has made a public pitch to dump the guidelines put in p...

Employment Column by Robert Major - Rarely does a day pass without someone asking me when the job market will rebound. My answ...

LOS ANGELES - The USA PATRIOT Act and other security-minded measures brought big changes to federal law after Sept. 11, but wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - For most women, juggling a thriving solo civil practice, teaching law school and chasing around a 5-year-old s...

LOS ANGELES - Take the word "leadership" out of the English language, and City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo could have a hard tim...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place today for James Greely Kolts, a former Superior Court judge who came out of retirement ...

Forum Column by Mary L. Topliff - As we embark on 2002, several new laws will go into effect that will significantly impact Ca...

LOS ANGELES - County officials will consider Jan. 8 whether to renew the Los Angeles city attorney's lease of office space at ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court on Wednesday overturned a Kern County double-murder conviction and death sentence, hol...

SAN FRANCISCO - Veteran Judge James I. Aaron, of Fresno County Superior Court, is the target of formal charges into alleged li...

Employment Law Practitioner Column by Johnny Darnell Griggs - In Swenson v. Potter, 2000 U.S.App.Lexis 25902 (9th Cir. ...

LOS ANGELES - In a flurry of holiday appointments, Gov. Gray Davis has elevated Orange County Superior Court Judge Richard D. ...

Forum Column by Fred Silberberg - It is not uncommon in family law cases to require parties to undergo vocational evaluations....

Forum Column by David A. Rosen - The essential synergy between workers' compensation benefits and third-party liability is dec...

VIEWPOINT By David D. Kadue Donald C. Potter In this second in a three-part series on deposition skills, the authors address ...

LOS ANGELES - Though 2001 brought a recession that forced California law firms to fire an unprecedented number of lawyers, the...