Focus Column - By Wesley H. Avery - The Bankruptcy Court of the Central District of California identified a need for new rules...

SAN FRANCISCO - Eight attorneys in Cooley Godward's technology transactions group will transfer from the firm's San Francisco ...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed Morrison Cohen England Jr. to serve a lifetime appointment as a fede...

SAN FRANCISCO - Star prosecution witness Patricia Hearst should have her head examined, defense lawyers in the Symbionese Libe...

LOS ANGELES - Frustrated by her inability to penetrate the Los Angeles Police Department, a lawyer investigating the Rampart s...

SAN FRANCISCO - The National Bar Association, the nation's largest and oldest organization of black lawyers, will induct eight...

SAN FRANCISCO - A sharply divided federal appeals court panel on Thursday overturned the 20-year-old death sentence of William...

LOS ANGELES - Disputing a highly publicized university study, San Diego federal prosecutors said their conviction rate for ill...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge Thursday ordered the county's highest-ranking public defender to appear in court next month to e...

Dicta Column - By Steve Cerveris - Mediations often don't come naturally to trial lawyers. In fact, many of the litigation tec...

Employment Column - By Craig A. Blumin - My sister-in-law just received an attractive offer for a job with a new employer. Aft...

Forum Column - By Mark McCaffrey - It's not exactly a runaway train, but bodies may soon be flying, anyway. SB371, the Court I...

LOS ANGELES - Corporate directors have a right to see the company's business records - and to share them with stockholders - u...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether 911 dispatchers can be held liable for neglige...

LOS ANGELES - The 2nd District Court of Appeal has temporarily halted the trial of a lawsuit against Ford Motor Co. and a Visa...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law named four members Wednesday to a development panel assigned to rethink a much-cri...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Bar Association of San Francisco joined a chorus of business interests Wednesday in protesting a superviso...

SAN FRANCISCO - A death row inmate convicted of three 1980s murders is now so mentally ill that he's been declared unfit to he...

Column by Garry Abrams - On the night of July 2, Ignacio Mendez was suicidal, according to members of the Hesperia man's famil...

SAN BERNARDINO - Robin Woods, a 25-year-old Rialto man whose confession to a 1992 murder threw his case into a legal quandary ...

LOS ANGELES - Dependency court mediator and law professor Elizabeth Marmorston Horowitz died of cancer. She was 72. "She was a...

SACRAMENTO - A woman who was injured in a tae kwon do class cannot sue her instructor for damages under the primary assumption...

Forum Column - By Ruth D. Shapin - Divorce often leaves a former spouse, usually the woman, with a reduced standard of living....

Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - "Communication," as defined by the Encarta Dictionary, is the exchange of information between...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - A very big part of lawyering is responding to questions to which you don't know the answer. In ...

Forum Coulmn - By Christine Spagnoli - Mold fear is gripping homeowners, spreading as quickly as the toxic spores themselves. ...

Focus Column - By Larry A. Walraven - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously held in National Railroad Passenger Corp. v. Morga...