LOS ANGELES - When Stanford Law School roommates Melvin Swift and Warren Christopher drove home from school in the Model A For...
LOS ANGELES - Oscar Lee Morris, who was freed after 16 years in prison when his chief accuser issued a deathbed recantation, l...
SAN FRANCISCO - A heavily lobbied California Supreme Court stepped into the middle of the energy crisis Wednesday, agreeing t...
Judges and Judiciary
Santa Clara Court Strikers Say They're Close to a Deal
By Craiq Anderson
SAN JOSE - The union representing Santa Clara County court employees moved toward a settlement with management Wednesday in a...
Forum Column - By Miriam Aroni Krinsky, Amy Pellman & Jenny Weisz - Being a teen-ager in foster care all too often transla...
LOS ANGELES - The White House is gearing up to select five new federal trial judges in San Diego and one in Los Angeles by spr...
Labor/Employment
Insurance Suit Litigants Study U.S. Advisory On Overtime
By Peter Blumberg
SAN FRANCISCO - Insurance companies got a new boost from Uncle Sam in the oft-litigated issue of whether claims adjusters qua...
Appellate Practice
New Statute Adds Certification for Interlocutory Appeal to State Practice
By Columnist
Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Donald M. Fenmore - Section 166.1 is a reasonably nonadversarial method of seeking prompt ap...
Judges and Judiciary
Trials Derail In Santa Clara as Employees Stay on Strike
By Riley Guerin
SAN JOSE - The second day of the Santa Clara County court employees' strike was marked by chaos at the Hall of Justice, a judi...
LOS ANGELES - More than 4 million Californians living in poverty lack access to a lawyer, a new report from the California Com...
LOS ANGELES - In an issue that will soon before the California Supreme Court, an appeals court ruled Tuesday that a drug defen...
LOS ANGELES - Orange County Superior Court Judge James P. Gray is scheduled to formally approve a $27.5 million binding arbitr...
BAKERSFIELD - The attorney defending the man accused of brutally murdering a Kern County district attorney is known to talk to...
RIVERSIDE - A federal judge Tuesday stayed the autopsy of a man shot and killed by Riverside police officers when a civil righ...
LOS ANGELES - State Assembly Speaker Emeritus Robert Hertzberg, D-Van Nuys, has agreed to join the Los Angeles office of Chica...
WASHINGTON - The Senate on Tuesday struggled to wrap up business for the year during its lame-duck session, arguing over creat...
Forum Column - By Richard P. McKee - On public-school campuses today, intolerance toward dissenting views is becoming the norm...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - The results in Gonzales promise to increase the...
SACRAMENTO - In the United States, at least 115 inmates have been freed through DNA testing, and mounting evidence from these...
SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors in the trial of David A. Westerfield, convicted of kidnapping and murdering 7-year-old Danielle van Da...
Entertainment & Sports
This Just In: Cops Look for Murder Suspects at Death Row Records
By Garry Abrams
Column by Garry Abrams - As a resident of Southern California, I sometimes have a hard time telling the difference between rea...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
CAOC Votes To Boycott Leading Firm Of Arbitrators
By Donna Domino
SAN FRANCISCO - The Consumer Attorneys of California, asserting that binding arbitration agreements are eroding jury trial ri...
Forum Column - By Ira L. Shafiroff - To understand why the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is the most-reversed circuit, one...
CHATSWORTH - "In the event of a bomb threat, use the bomb threat checklist," the green-and-white sign in Commissioner Richard ...
SAN FRANCISCO - California utility regulators opened their defense Monday of a historic plan to reorganize the bankrupt Pacif...
SACRAMENTO - Southern California attorneys William Shernoff and Lisa Stern received the Consumer Attorneys of California's fi...
LOS ANGELES - A Malibu lawyer pleaded no contest Monday to two felony counts of grand theft for allegedly stealing $120,000 fr...
Appellate Practice
Court Thwarts Coalition's Efforts to Aid Detainees
By Katherine Gaidos
LOS ANGELES - A coalition of clergy, lawyers and professors do not have enough connection to the 590 war prisoners held at Cam...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal rules committee has overwhelmingly recommended a controversial rule that would permit lawyers to ci...
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration won a major legal battle Monday when a special appellate court in its first published opi...