Dicta Column - By The Rodent - How many times has this happened to you? You are just about to pick up your things, put on your...

Dicta Column - By Sharon Berman - Persuasive writing is a hallmark of a good litigator. Writing for marketing purposes, howeve...

VENTURA - Ventura County Superior Court Presiding Judge Bruce A. Clark and Assistant Presiding Judge John R. Smiley have been ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Seldom does a U.S. attorney hire a criminal defense attorney as his chief executive, but that is just what San...

LOS ANGELES - A federal jury Wednesday absolved the El Monte Police Department of any liability in the fatal shooting of a dis...

SAN DIEGO - A second jury heard the evidence in the trial of David A. Westerfield. And the TV viewers who saw the trial on a l...

LOS ANGELES - It's a tale of unlikely bedfellows: a Republican activist facing off against GOP gubernatorial candidate Bill Si...

Column by Garry Abrams - Sharks can make toast! This amazing culinary discovery surfaced this week in the now-notorious saga o...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Sierra Club and two Mendocino County environmental activists Wednesday defeated a libel case brought by a ...

LOS ANGELES - At least a few kids are happy school is back in session. Children living in the Faircrest Apartments in Norwalk ...

OAKLAND - Keith Batt, the former rookie Oakland police officer who blew the whistle on the alleged crimes of the Oakland Rider...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a groundbreaking decision, a federal appeals panel opened the door Wednesday to broad liability in U.S. cou...

BAKERSFIELD - Kern County Sheriff's investigators continued Wednesday to probe the personal life of slain Assistant District A...

WASHINGTON - A conservative anti-abortion appeals court nominee appeared headed for approval by the Senate Judiciary Committee...

SAN FRANCISCO - Since Terence Hallinan took office in 1996, the district attorney's relationship with the San Francisco Chroni...

LOS ANGELES - A lawsuit against a Cornell University medical clinic stemming from the fertility clinic scandal at University o...

Focus Column - By William W. Oxley and William A. Molinski - While not likely to draw as many fans as a Timberwolves-Lakers p...

Dicta Column - By Lee Jay Berman - If a mediation is going to have a chance at success, perhaps the most important decision is...

Forum Column - By James Acret - The new disclosure rules for arbitrators that went into effect July 1 provide a powerful demon...

LOS ANGELES - A class action claiming that a local phone company tricked its customers into paying millions in rental charges ...

LOS ANGELES - The long-running legal battle over the billion-dollar James Bond film franchise may have ended with a preliminar...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Gray Davis signed into law Tuesday a bill requiring the first study of compliance in California's public sc...

BAKERSFIELD - Kern County Sheriff's investigators Tuesday prepared to submit a "substantial" amount of evidence to the county'...

LOS ANGELES - A scholarship fund has been established at Southwestern University School of Law in memory of longtime Los Angel...

SACRAMENTO - A controversial bill that allows prison officials to use "reasonable force" to collect DNA samples from state pr...

LOS ANGELES - Former U.S. Attorney John S. Gordon will become a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges in Los...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles bank vice president is jailed, loses her job, has her citizenship application revoked and faces d...

SAN JOSE - Two research scientists who are waging a pitched legal battle with their former employer over defamatory Internet ...

OAKLAND - Defense arguments in the Oakland Riders police corruption case got off to a rough start Tuesday as the trial judge ...

Focus Column - By Marshal A. Oldman and Susan J. Cooley - In Wilkison v Wiederkehr, 2002 Cal.App.LEXIS 4575 (Cal.App. A...