Flamboyant Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce O'Donnell and his firm of jugular-fixated young Turks had a huge week last week. ...

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...