Forum: By Allen Jones I can't believe that the governor of California, Gray Davis, is trying to justify a 25-year prison sente...

The California Supreme Court appeared unwilling Tuesday to allow the names of key witnesses in a capital murder trial to remai...

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer told a group of lawyers and judges Tuesday that he may sponsor a ballot initiative ai...

The Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners changed course Tuesday and unanimously approved a program to increase supervisor...

Another alleged victim of rogue Los Angeles police officers filed a civil rights lawsuit Tuesday, claiming that disgraced offi...

Gary Jacobs, a founding partner of Los Angeles' Christensen Miller Fink Jacobs Glaser Weil & Shapiro, has been named execu...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the close of a high-profile trial in 1998, Judge Richard A. Hodge was not a happy man. Alameda County juror...

Grand jury transcripts released Tuesday show that seven police officers called as witnesses in April and May gave little if an...

Dicta: By Mark B. Vezzani The phone rang. It was my secretary, who told me a lawyer wanted to see me. I was in charge of the d...

Dicta: Brickner's Bits By David Brickner Trial counsel often impeach using deposition testimony. However, with surprising freq...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - Facing four felony counts, Peter C. Sheridan, a partner at Los Angeles' Christensen, Miller, Fink, Jacobs, ...

Practitioner: Legal Malpractice Law By Alec H. Boyd In Wiley v. County of San Diego, 14 Cal.4th 532 (1998), the California Sup...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hundreds of guilty and no-contest pleas carrying the possibility of permanent exclusion from the United States...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County ostrich investor is suing the Tehachapi ostrich ranch at which he boards his 18 birds, alleging t...

SAN DIEGO - A former high-ranking deputy district attorney accused of prosecutorial misconduct in a murder case claimed his F...

SANTA ANA - A woman receiving therapy through Orange County's Health Care Agency claims she was sexually harassed by her thera...

SAN FRANCISCO - Curtailing unfair business-practice suits, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that individuals may not ...

Forum: By Alan P. Block The Supreme Court's decision in WalMart Stores v. Sumara Brothers provides some predictability to prod...

Prosecutors Monday joined Rafael A. Perez's bid to recuse the attorney for one of the first three police officers charged in t...

On the Move: The San Diego office of Morrison & Foerster has added intellectual property litigators David Doyle and Craig ...

Cardinal Roger Mahony, the archbishop of Los Angeles, has an exquisite sense of timing. With a speech at the National Press Cl...

Labeled by the Mexican Mafia as a snitch, Jose Uribe lasted less than two days at the Los Angeles County Jail, where he was be...

As baseball superstar Barry Bonds and his former wife watched from the sidelines, the California Supreme Court on Monday pitch...

SAN FRANCISCO - Raymond Dunkin called young Marisa his "miracle baby." Stricken with testicular cancer, the East Bay laborer t...

Forum: By Edward F. O'Connor Congress should eliminate the confusion and uncertainty that is created when courts allow rights ...

RIVERSIDE - Jury panels need to be better diversified, agreed a panel of five legal and academic experts who gathered Wednesda...

The Adviser: Appellate Law By Ronald P. Kaplan Just as the trial lawyer must be ever vigilant in seeing to it that the complai...

News: New York's Kelley Drye & Warren has added five lawyers to its Los Angeles office, effective last Thursday. The addit...

Forum: By Madeline Bernstein In response to Andrew Bernstein's article "Animal Rights Activists Seek to Inflict Human Sufferin...

Forum: Spin Report By John M. Curtis Gunning for President Clinton's law license, an Arkansas Supreme Court ethics panel recom...