Forum: By Elizabeth J. Cabraser Remember that intolerably bright kid in law school - the one who delighted in perverse argumen...

U.S. Supreme Court Column: WASHINGTON - If lawyers want to know how to tick off the Supreme Court justices, they should ask Fl...

SAN FRANCISCO - Troubled Pelican Bay State Prison came in for sharp criticism from a court-appointed monitor this week for its...

Dicta: On 'Ally McBeal' By Renee Laurents The season finale deserves a curtain call. This blend of Broadway musical theater an...

Practitioner: Criminal Law By Alex Ricciardulli Proposition 21 is a potpourri of new laws, impacting many aspects of Californi...

Forum: By Dennis C. Jett After U.N. peacekeepers proved incapable of handling the chaos in Sierra Leone, Richard Holbrooke, th...

^^Feature^^ By Deborah Rosenthal According to Michael Wade, of Los Angeles' Demler, Armstrong and Wade, "the complexity of bad...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tosco Corp., which suffered one of the worst accidents in Northern California refining history when four worke...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Santa Rosa family lawyer and two-time City Council candidate has pleaded no contest to charges that she stol...

Dicta: On 'Law & Order' By Judith B. Sklar. The prosecution sometimes need not look further than the victim's family and f...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Bernie Bernheim knew all his life he would be a lawyer. His great grandfather was a...

^^KEYS TO VICTORY^^ Mark P. Velez, an employment litigator with Concord's Velez and Velez, won $ in Ralph S. Baker v. Buffingt...

^^LITIGATOR PROFILE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal Michael E. Wade discovered his interest in the legal profession in an unlikely plac...

^^VIEWPOINT^^ By Kurt Osenbaugh It is a popular sentiment that jury verdicts are irrational, motivated by inappropriate sympat...

SANTA ANA - A declaratory relief complaint filed in Orange County Superior Court on Tuesday could have a significant impact on...

The Public Eye: By Ross Johnson Memo to all entertainment lawyers: When you're in your 70th hour of a 100-hour work week and y...

Forum: By Karleen George The real issue behind the Los Angeles Superior Court judges' decision to raise the salaries of some o...

The Alumni Association of Southwestern University School of Law honored a local lawyer and judge at its 13th annual awards rec...

Dicta: On 'Judging Amy' By Akilah Monifa Amy presides over a show-cause hearing to terminate the parental custody rights of Ru...

^^AT ISSUE^^ By Deborah Rosenthal On Jan. 17, 1994, at 4:31 a.m. , an earthquake that registered 6.8 on the Richter Scale rock...

^^VIEWPOINT^^ By Godfrey Isaac Mediators are catalysts for resolution. Subliminal stimuli influence behavior and attitudes, so...

SAN DIEGO - A veteran deputy district attorney who was the first witness in an unusual evidentiary hearing left no doubt about...

Dicta: On 'The Practice' By Paul Harris In the season finale Bobby Donnell and Lindsay Dole tie the marital knot with a ceremo...

RIVERSIDE - For nearly 30 years, James E. Martin Jr. had parachuted out of planes, making more than 5,000 sky-diving jumps and...

Forum: By Pablo Agrio California, like many other states in this country, subscribes to the philosophy that the purpose of inc...

Practitioner: Criminal Law By Laurie L. Levenson It is farely rare for this U.S. Supreme Court to limit police investigative p...

A federal judge Thursday dismissed a 4-year-old defamation lawsuit filed against Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Report...

A jury has ordered the United States division of Nestle USA to pay a former accountant more than $5 million for discriminating...

The Los Angeles Police Department officers at the heart of the Rampart scandal have been responsible for at least 108 civil la...

The political battle over community policing ratcheted up a notch Thursday when Los Angeles Police Department Chief Bernard C....