SACRAMENTO - U.S. District Judge Garland Burrell pauses frequently before speaking and chooses his words carefully, as if tipt...
MURRIETA - Riverside Superior Court Judge Rodney L. Walker loves adventure almost as much as he loves the law. When his wife h...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court appeared troubled Wednesday that a defense lawyer in a 1987 double-murder trial n...
SAN FRANCISCO - Busting bad patents was supposed to be easier and cheaper to do these days. In 1999, Congress created a low-co...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Attorneys Can Improve Clients' Prospects for Fair, Just Results
By Columnist
Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Richard L. Kellner and Michael R. Brown - If an arbitrator issues a $1 mill...
Focus Column - Animal Law - By Joyce Tischler and Bruce Wagman - So you're representing the husband in a divorce proceeding, a...
SACRAMENTO - The state Senate approved a bill Wednesday that makes it harder for employers to sue their bosses for minor labor...
LOS ANGELES - Several lawyers, a judge and a court employee testified Wednesday that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. ...
Notebook - By Craig Anderson - SAN JOSE - Littler Mendelson, hit with $87,851 in sanctions by a Santa Clara County judge earli...
SAN DIEGO - A San Diego jury Wednesday found transient Richard R. Tuite guilty of voluntary manslaughter in the stabbing death...
Family
State Tacitly Admits Gay Marriage Can't Be Shoved Back Into the Closet
By Garry Abrams
Column By Garry Abrams - LOS ANGELES - When lawyers and judges ponder the corpse of Humpty Dumpty, they fall into two bickerin...
WASHINGTON - In response to concerns from Congress, U.S. Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist has formed a committee, to be chai...
LOS ANGELES - A court hearing this week to set a money figure on sexual-abuse claims filed against the Roman Catholic church a...
LOS ANGELES - A lawyer for the boy accusing Michael Jackson of molesting him filed a claim for damages against Los Angeles Cou...
SAN FRANCISCO - The Justice Department can't block the nation's first physician-assisted suicide law by threatening criminal s...
Forum Column - By Earl Ofari Hutchinson - There's more at stake than the Los Angeles Police Department's reputation in its str...
Focus Column - Probate Law - By Marshal A. Oldman - In the matter of Arluk Medical Center Industrial Group Inc. v. Dobler
Forum Column - By Kenneth J. Theisen - What do North Korea, Iran and the United States have in common? No, they are not the th...
Judges and Judiciary
Jurist's Behavior Made Women Uneasy, Prosecutors Testify
By Jory Farr
LOS ANGELES - Two female prosecutors testified Tuesday that Los Angeles Superior Court Judge John D. Harris' behavior on the b...
SACRAMENTO - A coalition of consumers and health care providers launched a campaign Tuesday to protect an employer-funded heal...
LOS ANGELES - In a major victory for landlords, a state appeals court on Tuesday struck down a portion of Santa Monica's anti-...
SANTA ANA - Defense attorneys continued their ferocious cross-examination of the alleged victim in Orange County's gang-rape c...
SAN FRANCISCO - Edward Radlo, a 14-year partner of Fenwick & West and former chief patent counsel for Ford Aerospace Corp....
SAN FRANCISCO - It was a decidedly pro-gay-marriage audience Tuesday at the California Supreme Court. A crowd outside the cour...
SAN FRANCISCO - A former Pelican Bay State Prison guard must face retrial on suspicion of violating the civil rights of an inm...
Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - When the California Supreme Court first allowed cameras into its courtroom in 198...
LOS ANGELES - Maria Suarez, who spent 22 years in prison for participating in the murder of a man who bought her as a sex slav...
SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court signaled Tuesday it will rule that San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom overstepped h...
Appellate Practice
Church-Abuse Case Jurist Won't Bind Insurers to Settlement Sum
By Joy Shaw
LOS ANGELES - Bowing to pressure from the appellate court, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter Lichtman said Monday he will...
SAN FRANCISCO - A Lodi winemaker who uses Central Valley grapes to produce wine called "Napa Creek" and "Napa Ridge" didn't wi...