FOCUS COLUMN - By Robert C. Barnes - American consumers have learned to dismiss claims of new and improved products as so much...

LOS ANGELES - Stroll past the volleyball courts at Will Rogers State Beach on a given weekday afternoon, and you may see Greg ...

SAN BERNARDINO - Grover Merritt, a veteran San Bernardino prosecutor who contended that District Attorney Mike Ramos fired him...

SAN FRANCISCO - The law firm consolidation trend continued into 2006 and is expected to march on through 2007, according to in...

FORUM COLUMN - By Nora Quinn - Like everyone else I took ethics in law school. I then taught it for a couple of semesters, whi...

LOS ANGELES - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has appointed Los Angeles City Controller Laura Chick to the State Bar Board of Gover...

FORUM COLUMN - By John N. Quisenberry and Fernando A. Vicente - This year was busy for reviewing courts in examining the Calif...

LOS ANGELES - It's not easy being a small-firm lawyer with a big-time client base. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Diana R. Hall's removal from the Santa Barbara County bench this month may have been a rarity for the state's ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Since departing DLA Piper's Silicon Valley office for the relatively nascent San Francisco outpost of Payne &a...

James Lavell Harris had used marijuana all his life for chronic pain. So when he was sentenced to serve time in the Lake Count...

SAN FRANCISCO - For a theater-lover like Greg Conklin, it was a natural fit. A transplanted New Yorker who saw lots of plays t...

WASHINGTON - Long on intrigue but short on blockbuster decisions, 2006 was something of an intermission year at the U.S. Supre...

More than 17 years after one of the worst environmental disasters in American history, a federal appeals court hopes it has se...

LOS ANGELES - Superior Court Judge Helen I. Bendix is famous for her diligence and hard work. ...

Perker L. Meeks Jr., a veteran of the San Francisco County Superior Court bench, will retire at year's end.

FOCUS COLUMN - By Frank M. Loo - The California Constitution gives each citizen an "inalienable right" to pursue and obtain "p...

Discipline Column

VALENCIA - Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Craig Richman had read the last progress report of the morning when he turned his ...

AUBURN - Frances Kearney likes to fix things. Whether it's remodeling a house, clearing a huge backlog of civil cases or organ...

SAN FRANCISCO - If it weren't for a chance rainstorm, retired Sonoma County Superior Court Judge William L. Bettinelli probabl...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Judge Henry E. Needham to the 1st District Court of Appeals and nine attorneys to lower b...

LOS ANGELES - One of the nation's major media company agreed to settle an overtime class action brought against it by 61 newsp...

LOS ANGELES - Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa lost the first round in court Thursday when a judge ruled unconstitutiona...

LOS ANGELES - The National Senior Citizens Law Center is proceeding with a lawsuit against the U.S. secretary of Health and Hu...

SAN FRANCISCO - Susanne S. Shaw, a retired Orange County Superior Court judge who was scolded numerous times for caustic behav...

LOS ANGELES - For the first time in over a year, the U.S. attorney's office in Los Angeles will be hiring a new crop of prosec...

FOCUS COLUMN - By Matthew T. Heartney - It's not too late to rethink holding manufacturers liable when others misuse their pro...

FORUM COLUMN - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - California's women prisoners are getting the worst of a bad system. ...

FORUM COLUMN - By Larry Irving and Michael D. Gallagher - The new Congress should fund and support inter-agency communications...