Column by Garry Abrams - The spectacle of politicians trying to deliver reassurance in a sea of troubles is a constant of Amer...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - Is the stock market close to bottoming out? - ;"If I knew the answer to that I wouldn...

Dicta Column - By Barbara Lewis and Dan Otto - The average profitability for a law firm should be around 33 percent. After all...

Forum Column - By Mark E. Chopko - The June 27, U.S. Supreme Court decision, Zelman v. Simmons-Harris , upholding the c...

Forum Column - By Frederick M. Lawrence - Zelman v. Simmons-Harris , the Ohio school voucher case, marks a new, signifi...

LOS ANGELES - A sexual harassment lawsuit against the Los Angeles County district attorney's office backfired when a judge ord...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside judge will decide next month on a former deputy public defender's request to hold Public Defender Gary...

FONTANA - In a case bearing resemblance to the Michael Skakel murder trial, a San Bernardino County judge has ruled that a man...

SAN JOSE - Judge Erica Yew has found a cure for the jury duty blues. It's an incantation of sorts, a blend of the Sixth Amendm...

SACRAMENTO - Record clubs make secret payments to record companies that even many label executives don't know about to avoid p...

SANTA ANA - Michael Silvas, who co-founded the Hispanic Bar Association of Orange County, has died. He was 60. "He was a remar...

SAN DIEGO - Because the jury in the kidnapping and murder trial of David A. Westerfield had a day off, prosecution and defense...

Forum Column - By Jad Terrell Davis - Peremptory challenges: should they stay or should they go? Typically, those calling for...

SAN FRANCISCO - Superior Court judges and commissioners here are forbidden from joining groups that discriminate against gay p...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jim Wu has rejoined the local office of Preston, Gates & Ellis after nearly four years with the online por...

WASHINGTON - The House Judiciary Committee met Tuesday to consider legislation to break up the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appea...

Forum Column - By Dan Lawton - The paid purveyors of arbitration (like industry heavyweights JAMS and the American Arbitration...

Focus Column - By Matthew L. Cantor - A significant battle is currently taking place in the courts over a signature telecommun...

SAN FRANCISCO - The crime of continuous sexual abuse doesn't require the perpetrator to hold a position of authority over the ...

SAN DIEGO - A forensic entomologist testified Monday that the body of Danielle van Dam was first exposed to flies between Feb....

Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - Redevelopment isn't supposed to increase blight, is it? Recently in the city of Los Angeles,...

REDWOOD CITY - A murder suspect who had been the subject of a legal fight over whether a mentally competent defendant could be...

Colum Garry Abrams - It's back to the drawing board in the federal wrongful death suit brought by the estate of New York rap m...

SAN FRANCISCO - Two stock market groups that arbitrate investor disputes filed suit in federal court Monday against the state ...

RIVERSIDE - A former deputy public defender is asking a judge to hold her ex-boss - Riverside County Public Defender Gary Wind...

LOS ANGELES - You've got to spend money to make money, and West Coast law firms know this better than any other in the country...

VALLEJO - On first impression, Judge Paul Beeman appears to be a slacker. Asked why he majored in political science as an unde...

SACRAMENTO - A state appeal court ruled Monday that five law firms that successfully challenged a $300 smog fee charged to out...

SANTA ROSA - Every morning before Judge Elaine Watters calls her calendar, her bailiff, Sonoma County Sheriff's Deputy Everett...

SAN FRANCISCO - Drunk drivers shouldn't foot the bill for their own arrests, claims a federal lawsuit that asks several small ...