The name of the Staples Center should be changed to Fort Staples. The name change occurred to me Wednesday as I watched Los A...

SAN FRANCISCO - In an extraordinary effort to overturn a death sentence due to allegedly bad lawyering, a capital appeals atto...

Boys will be boys, but that doesn't mean a Jewish family's 15-year-old son can give permission for his friends to burn a 7-fo...

DICTA People decide within seconds whether or not a speaker has something valuable to say - merely by his or her voice. ...

By John Young In colonial Haleford, Md. , it was against the law to kiss for more than one second. Didn't matter who you kisse...

Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9): Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his o...

By Charles Levendosky Decisions by justices of the U.S. Supreme Court affect the public even more than the presidents who app...

^^Health Care Law^^ Safety and Security Federal E-Health Regulations Will Deal With Privacy and Medical Errors Clinicians vie...

Tom Meriwether, a sole practitioner in Vista who practices workers' compensation law, has become president-elect of the Bar A...

^^First Light^^ By Richard P. McKee When the Founding Fathers created our republican form of government, they gave us, the pe...

Re "The Facts on Death Sentences" by Bill Thompson (Forum, June 9). Watch out for anyone whose diatribe shrilly accuses his o...

SANTA ANA - Farmers Group, Inc., the nation's fourth largest auto insurance company, has been targeted in a class action that...

SAN DIEGO -- A key prosecution witness in a 1996 murder trial said Tuesday that in the days immediately following the stabbing...

The family of a woman who died in Guyana after her carry-on luggage containing life sustaining medical supplies was taken, th...

In what should bring to 94 the number of criminal cases thrown out of court because of the Rampart police corruption scandal, ...

George P. Schiavelli, presiding judge of the appellate division of Los Angeles Superior Court, is leaving the bench to become...

SAN FRANCISCO - A city can blow the whistle on fraud against the state, a judge has decided, allowing San Francisco to pursue...

WESTMINSTER - John Alfred Thomas, a former Huntington Beach city councilman , has been charged with polluting nearly 14 acres...

An 11-judge federal appellate panel tussled Tuesday over whether California's teacher skills test is an employment test subje...

SAN FRANCISCO - Matthew Cramer was a low-risk , 32-year-old petty thief in 1995 when he was put on a bus to Pelican Bay State...

HUNTINGTON BEACH - If a man's house is his castle, Emad Ali Hassan's is the Taj Mahal - at least that's how it seems followin...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has disqualified two defense attorneys from representing a Pelican Bay State Prison guard cha...

DICTA Firm Matters By Kimberly Quackenbush. Failing to orient new associates properly is the best way to get them off to a po...

^^From the Tower^^ [with mug] By Ira L. Shafiroff We find it in the newspapers every day: A person is convicted of molesting ...

San Francisco's public defender, district attorney, presiding Superior Court judge and other court officials inspected Treasur...

Attorneys for child health advocates sued Monday to force the state to fully implement a nearly decade-old program designed to...

DICTA While hardly glamorous, thorough preparation is the best way to stack the trial deck in your favor. By David Pash Most a...

An Orange County jury awarded $14 million in punitive damages Monday to a stereo cabinetmaker who accused Argonaut Insurance C...

A federal judge has ruled that termination damages imposed on a complex but widely used financial deal known as an interest ra...

Lawyer Settles Reptilian Lawsuit FULLERTON - The lawsuit brought by Fullerton family law attorney Linda K. Ross after a GTE y...