Column By Philip Carrizosa - SAN FRANCISCO - When I first started covering California courts some 20-odd years ago, I would oc...

Video games have come a long way from Pong, one of the first home video games to introduce the world to the joys of a joystick...

What rights do Herb, Wendy and Ann each have in the house in Montana, the car and Ann's $15,000 bank account? Page XX QUESTIO...

Employment Column - By Michael D. Karpeles - One of the fastest-growing areas of employment litigation involves claims for ret...

Forum Column - By Wendy Murphy - Media around the country should be commended for their good work showcasing examples of wrong...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Jill Faulkner McNeal and James M. Harris - Attorneys take advantage of the right to oral arg...

LOS ANGELES - The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated a civil rights lawsuit against several Adelanto cit...

LOS ANGELES - Services have taken place for Pasadena attorney Robert Paul Pratte Sr., whose longtime corporate clients include...

SAN FRANCISCO - Defense attorneys will seek to dismiss 17 espionage-related charges against Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi today, c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clifford Chance suffered the loss of three litigation partners this week, marking the first defections from th...

Notebook - By Donna Domino - SAN FRANCISCO - Ever wanted to vent your spleen about the cutthroat, unethical opposing counsel y...

SAN FRANCISCO - Retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert M. Letteau drew a public admonishment Thursday for hostile and...

SAN FRANCISCO - Clad in purple T-shirts, about 50 San Francisco Superior Court employees gathered outside the McAllister Stree...

LOS ANGELES - The 2001 murder of Asian-American teenager Kenneth Chiu by a deaf, white-supremacist neighbor was shocking, brea...

SANTA ANA - As one defense attorney hammered at the testimony of the woman at the center of a high-profile gang-rape trial Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Stephen Czuleger appreciates the difference between being a civil court judge and a criminal court judge. He's b...

LOS ANGELES - Public-interest advocate Rebecca Isaacs will replace Clemente Franco as executive director of the Inner City Law...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concerned that a Contra Costa judge failed to halt a 2000 death penalty trial involving a mentally retarded de...

LOS ANGELES - Gray Cary Ware & Freidenrich is losing its former chairman and two other litigation partners to the San Dieg...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lesbian who helped artificially inseminate her partner and then helped raise their twin children cannot be o...

SACRAMENTO - Maggie Baingana wasn't too keen about attending a university she'd never heard of in a city she'd never heard of....

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavol Lazarenko failed to convince a federal judge Wednesday to pl...

Forum Column - By Eve Hill - Although this week marks the 50th anniversary of the courageous and important Supreme Court decis...

Forum Column - By Ralph G. Neas - With the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Colu...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Alex Ricciardulli - Michael Jackson is presumed innocent of the child-molestation charges aga...

STOCKTON - It's a murder mystery about a wrongfully convicted Albert Einstein doing time in a prison controlled by Nazi spies ...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - Employers could reduce or entirely eliminate retirees' health benefits once their former w...

WASHINGTON - A day after the White House and the Senate resolved a political dispute over President Bush's recess appointments...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Superior Court executives on Wednesday approved a revised version of a plan, first made public in Ap...

SACRAMENTO - Most states that take large chunks of plaintiffs' punitive damage awards get very little money because the awards...