A San Francisco couple, together for 27 years, has been forced to spend the last eight months apart because of a job. Daniel K...

Column - Courtroom Etiquette - By Douglas G. Carnahan - New lawyers need to know the rule against hearsay and what the grounds...

California law firms continue to expand into China. Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Morrison & Foerster are the ...

Focus Column - Environmental Law - By William D. Wick - The Carson Harbor Village Mobile Home Park should be renamed the "Peri...

Forum Column - By Julia Harumi Mass - On April 7, 2003, Oakland police used "less-than-lethal" weapons against peaceful anti-w...

Forum Column - By Thomas W. Hiltachk - After five years in office, Gray Davis clearly has governed without any vision; he simp...

LOS ANGELES - The Western Center for Law and Poverty has broken last year's fund-raising records for the annual Garden Party, ...

State Bar Notebook - By Don J. DeBenedictis - Judiciary officials plan to bring together groups of lawyers and judges soon to ...

LOS ANGELES - A recent decision by Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to slash a proposed rate increase by a major medical-...

COLTON - A federal appeals court has decided that former Mayor Karl Gaytan must pay the city of Colton the $61,000 in bribe mo...

WASHINGTON - Lawyers for two groups that attempted to keep Proposition 54 off the Oct. 7 recall ballot are disappointed with t...

LOS ANGELES - Five years ago, Western State University College of Law in Fullerton won provisional accreditation from the Amer...

LOS ANGELES - A trial in Chatsworth pitting a disabled 12-year-old against the Ford Motor Co. could expose the automotive gian...

LOS ANGELES - The district attorney's office asked a retired judge Friday to make public his decision on whether to force the ...

SAN FRANCISCO - The only IBM Selectric II typewriter still in existence in the San Francisco Superior Courts can be found clea...

SACRAMENTO - A federal appeals panel on Thursday affirmed racketeering and conspiracy convictions against 11 members of the no...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Jeffrey Isaac Ehrlich - Diamond Woodworks v. Argonaut Insurance Co. , 109 Cal.App.4th 10...

Employment Column - By Gail Kaneshiro - Rebuilding Iraq will be costly. According to Asia Times, "the United Nations Developme...

Forum Column - By Alan D. Pauw - Coverage of the election to recall Gov. Gray Davis consists mostly of high-octane political r...

SAN FRANCISCO - A bitter consumer health fight over second-hand tobacco smoke in hotels has coughed up a new lawsuit - this on...

SACRAMENTO - The state Legislature sent two bills to the governor Thursday that would enable public prosecutors to sue publicl...

ANAHEIM - Ted Kennedy Jr. sometimes tells people that he is glad that he lost a leg to cancer 30 years ago when he was 12. "I ...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor James K. Hahn has admitted violating the city's campaign finance laws in his 2001 election, an...

RIVERSIDE - In closing arguments in an unusual Riverside murder trial, a prosecutor Thursday portrayed the defendant as a drug...

LOS ANGELES - A group of parents has dropped a lawsuit challenging a school tolerance program that they said violated their ri...

LOS ANGELES - When paralegal Grahame MacCallum's online legal research comes up empty, he heads downtown to the Los Angeles Co...

LOS ANGELES - The woman rushed into the Downey courtroom, full of explanations about why she showed up late for a hearing abou...

SAN FRANCISCO - Paul "Cornfed" Schneider, a central figure in San Francisco's notorious dog-mauling case, entered into a plea ...

SACRAMENTO - Trial lawyers, under pressure to make changes to the state's unfair competition law to discourage abuses of it, a...

Focus Column - Business Law - By Tracy Silver - Companies must take as seriously as any other large endeavor the decision to c...