RIVERSIDE - Greg Johnson has come a long way since earning $350 for his racy role as Carl in the early 1980s soft porn flick "...

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in less than six months, Michael Ovitz has been hit with a lawsuit, this time from a former ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Six major title companies agreed Tuesday to pay about $50 million to settle claims that they charged customers...

WASHINGTON - Two California judicial nominees and one U.S. attorney hopeful won the backing of the Senate Judiciary Committee ...

FRESNO - The California Supreme Court did not appear willing Tuesday to spare condemned killer Larry Roberts, despite a judge'...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...

FRESNO - With the California Supreme Court apparently divided, Chief Justice Ronald George voiced strong support Tuesday for G...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In 1996, magazines and newspapers were crammed with glowing stories on what they cal...

SAN FRANCISCO - In harrowing testimony, a Vietnamese woman on trial for attempted arson and terrorism described to a federal j...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Tuesday granted an order temporarily stopping Washington Mutual Home Loans Inc. from forecl...

LOS ANGELES -The parents of an autistic child can sue the Manhattan Beach Unified School District for failing to implement a s...

STOCKTON - Listening to San Joaquin County Superior Court Judge Terrence R. Van Oss describe how he arm wrestles lawyers to se...

LOS ANGELES - In an unusual broadside, a state appeals panel has slammed the state's criminal trial judges for not providing t...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard Chernick - Those who choose arbitration because it is a low-cost an...

WASHINGTON - The Federal Communications Commission appears to be heading for a resounding defeat in its multibillion-dollar ba...

Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - In 1996, magazines and newspapers were crammed with glowing stories on what they ca...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran litigator Kenneth Chiate is ditching the local office of San Francisco's Pillsbury Winthrop for Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - Nikki, who advertised as the "chocolate cutie" escort in the Los Angeles alternative newsweekly New Times, got t...

Dicta Column - By The Rodent - Don't you wish that, just once, you got the chance to sit on the other side? Most lawyers spend...

SAN FRANCISCO - The San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association is calling for a boycott of the American Arbitration Association b...

WASHINGTON - The man who was convicted of the 1963 kidnapping of Frank Sinatra Jr. can collect hundreds of thousands of dollar...

SAN FRANCISCO - Although the academic and political debate over the value of English-only instruction vs. bilingual education ...

LOS ANGELES - Alan R. Markizon, a general corporate lawyer and mediator, has died. Markizon died Sept. 22 of cancer at his hom...

WASHINGTON - Senators questioned on Monday a Los Angeles Superior Court judge being considered for a federal judgeship about a...

SAN FRANCISCO - San Francisco has a black mayor and a black police chief - yet the American Civil Liberties Union reported Mon...

SAN FRANCISCO - Undaunted by the meltdown in the dot-com economy, Stanford University Law School is investing in a new center ...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Robert Burch - In In re Marriage of Lynn, 2002 DJDAR 9320 (Cal. A...

Dicta Column - By Richard C. Neal - Most trial lawyers think the art of persuasion is their most important job skill. This bei...

WASHINGTON - The 2,000 petitions for review rejected by the Supreme Court Monday included important cases dealing with judicia...