Dicta Column - By Ralph Bovitz - Married or not, women attorneys must be prepared for the full range of financial possibilitie...

Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - Congress is considering the passage of the Farm Security Act. At issue is the question ...

Focus Column - By Keith Phillips - The "American Rule" with regard to attorney-fee awards requires litigants to pay their own ...

MARTINEZ - Steven Wasserman stood in a courtroom and asked a jury to share his incredulity at his clients' fate. How could peo...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco International Airport has failed to meet the "most basic needs" of deaf or hearing-impaired trav...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles City Council declined on Wednesday to review a decision by the Board of Police Commissioners to ...

LOS ANGELES - Prominent lawyer and aerospace industrialist John J. Roscia has died. Roscia, who worked on some of the 20th cen...

SAN JOSE - Two research scientists who defamed their former employer in thousands of postings on Internet message boards got a...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles office of Houston's Fulbright & Jaworski has added a litigation partner to its expanding int...

SAN RAFAEL - The defense attorney for the San Francisco prosecutor charged in Marin County with assault with a deadly weapon p...

SAN FRANCISCO - A hospital is within its rights to fire an employee because she sued a patient who assaulted her, a state appe...

Column by Garry Abrams - Los Angeles constitutional law attorney John H. Weston was hopping mad at U.S. Attorney General John ...

SACRAMENTO - Civil filing fees and surcharges on criminal penalties could rise dramatically next year under bills making their...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles city and county prosecutors filed a request Wednesday for a temporary restraining order against the ...

Focus Column - By Kenneth A. Raskin and Richard C. Libert - Most administrators of 401(k) retirement plans probably are well a...

Dicta Column - Movie Review - By Stephen Zager - Despite excellent performances from Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman, "High Cri...

Dicta Column - By Paul O'Brien - "You're our sixth lawyer," he told me. Those words would ordinarily set off alarm bells for a...

WASHINGTON - In June 1999, when Larry Hope got into an altercation with another inmate while on a chain-gang work detail at Al...

Focus Column - By Kirk A. Pasich - One issue that frequently arises in litigation now is whether the insurer or the insured co...

Forum Column - By Kirsten D. Levingston - The public increasingly views the "war on drugs" as an unjust waste of time, money a...

RANCHO MIRAGE - In 1998, Thomas A. Grossman placed a bet that a terminally ill stranger would die within two years. The Rancho...

SANTA ANA - The Irvine law firm that represented O.J. Simpson in his successful child custody battle has sued the former footb...

LOS ANGELES - In a bold gambit to move the decision on his reappointment to a potentially friendlier forum, police Chief Berna...

SACRAMENTO - The Senate Public Safety Committee moved forward Tuesday with a plan to seize many inmate cases from the state pa...

SAN DIEGO - Little more than a month after a jury slapped Ralphs Grocery Co. with a record $30 million judgment in a sexual ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - The success of California's drug courts, which provide treatment instead of jail time to substance abusers, ca...

LOS ANGELES - "Cousin Chuck" from Northwest Arkansas posted the following message on an Internet bulletin board Tuesday, after...

SAN FRANCISCO - Hastings College of the Law officials have rejected a petition by off-campus groups to redraw the school's con...

SAN FRANCISCO - Citing California's transplant-donor law and common law, a divided federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that fa...

Column by Garry Abrams - Police Chief Bernard C. Parks' dramatic appearance before the Los Angeles City Council Tuesday was a ...