LOS ANGELES - Female chefs and comedians cooked up laughs last week at the California Women's Law Center's 12th annual fund-ra...

LOS ANGELES - Silvia Mayorga never imagined she'd spend several years working in a law firm library. What started as a high-sc...

Focus Column - Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier - In Ragsdale v. Wolverine World Wide, 2002 DJDAR 3017 (U.S. Mar...

Forum Column - By Leslie T. Thornton - At the end of the Civil War, the U.S. government pledged "40 acres and a Mule" in repar...

Some litigators hire trial consultants to get a feel for which way the tide is turning in the courtroom. Thomas G. Wianecki de...

The defense attorney claimed that he won by using the plaintiff's own photographic evidence to undermine his credibility. But ...

Few cases put jurors to sleep as effectively as business cases. After a day or two of hearing one lawyer continually saying, "...

Dicta Column - By Betty Morris - The interview process and the benefits package are an often overlooked part of the employment...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - I have realized with a shock that this month marks the 30th anniversary of my working ...

Crying hysterically, a woman who lived down the street from Jesus Belmudez walked into his house one morning and pleaded for h...

Only rare cases and rare clients do not require litigation budgets for complex cases with sizable risk, many documents and a l...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles City Councilman Nate Holden appeared before the City Ethics Commission Thursday to defend himself ag...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court punted the politically charged case of a serial rapist to a Marin trial judge Thu...

LOS ANGELES - Sandra C. Muoz is a woman with several personas. By day, she is a civil rights attorney with the Pasadena law fi...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Pelican Bay State Prison warden, allegedly under pressure from the corrections union, has opposed a federa...

PALO ALTO - Since June, Larry Sonsini, the 61-year-old chairman and chief executive of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, h...

SAN DIEGO - Prosecutors said Wednesday that they will seek the death penalty for David A. Westerfield, who is accused of kidna...

LOS ANGELES - The American Jewish Committee presented Hollywood business litigator Marshall B. Grossman with its Learned Hand ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento judge who illegally chopped down or trimmed 16 valley oak trees in a nature preserve behind his h...

SAN DIEGO - The wheels of justice move like greased lightening in Judge J. Richard Haden's courtroom. A former deputy attorney...

WASHINGTON - The Senate on Thursday unanimously confirmed the nomination of two Los Angeles lawyers to the federal bench. Perc...

LOS ANGELES - Memorial services took place earlier this week for Herbert Nusbaum, Hollywood veteran and vice president of copy...

Employment Column - By Martha Fay Africa - As soon as you think you understand the current legal job market, or the state of y...

Focus Column - By John M. Genga and Sean A. O'Brien - In a case of first impression, a California Court of Appeal has held tha...

Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash - Persuasion is the art of winning people over to your way of thinking. And you cannot win ...

SAN JOSE - Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Thomas C. Hastings, whose relationship with the news media can best be desc...

SAN FRANCISCO - The cruise industry, despite its ships bearing names like "Elation" and "Viking Serenade" that evoke carefree,...

SACRAMENTO - A bill that would extend the statute of limitations for a massive class action by Mexican farmworkers claiming ba...

Column by Garry Abrams - Three things are certain about life in Los Angeles: taxes, death and an eternal river of lawsuits rel...

SAN FRANCISCO - Organizers of an annual charity bicycle ride down the California coast mismanaged proceeds and deceived riders...