Focus Column - Litigation - By David M. Rice and Troy M. Yoshino - Pure "private attorney general" claims under the state's Un...

SAN FRANCISCO - What do you get when you mix complex litigation and crafty lawyering with "the fiendishly fine distinctions" ...

LOS ANGELES - Citing the death of a four-year-old foster child who needed a new lung, Los Angeles County supervisors have orde...

SAN FRANCISCO - Concluding a troubled military prosecution that lasted more than a year, Airman Ahmad I. Al Halabi pleaded gu...

LOS ANGELES - An Iranian peace activist, who said he was wrongly jailed during the special roundup of Middle Eastern men in th...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Peter Roan - Conventional wisdom is that binding arbitration is quicker and...

Forum Column - By Michael H. Schill - As I assume the deanship of UCLA School of Law, I am tremendously excited about the pros...

Forum Column - By Timothy Roscoe Carter - Recent federal tax laws have continued a quarter-century trend of shifting taxes fro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Now that corporate America has embraced open-source software, two Silicon Valley attorneys figure it's time th...

Forum Column - By Greg Lukianoff and Will Creeley - Despite the uproar about the Federal Communication Commission's aggressive...

SAN FRANCISCO - The latest victim in the war on terror, it turns out, is the spare tire. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

SAN FRANCISCO - Lawyers for environmental protesters exhorted jurors to send police a message that it is not OK to hurt demons...

SACRAMENTO - Flush with cash and new members opposed to the Bush administration's anti-terrorism efforts, the American Civil L...

WASHINGTON - Facing another year of limited funding from Congress, the U.S. Judicial Conference on Tuesday voted to implement ...

LOS ANGELES -Legal aid lawyers in Los Angeles can collect attorney fees in a landlord-tenant dispute despite receiving federal...

SAN FRANCISCO - Brokerage giant TD Waterhouse has agreed to pay $2 million to settle civil fraud charges for making undisclose...

LOS ANGELES - An appeals court ruling this month awarding custody of a 2-year-old child to his biological father could open th...

SANTA ANA - Trinity Broadcasting Network founder Paul F. Crouch failed Tuesday to get a judge to stop the Los Angeles Times fr...

LOS ANGELES - Growing up in Carson and Compton, the son of an executive recruiter and schoolteacher, Los Angeles Superior Cour...

SAN FRANCISCO - Joann Guldbeck strode to the courtroom podium and smiled broadly at the judge, who smiled back. "It's always g...

Focus Column - Tax Law - By Bruce Givner - Tax professionals urge taxpayers to start tax planning long in advance of need. For...

Forum Column - By Mark E. Kalmansohn - As the presidential election campaign enters full swing, the Electoral College looms as...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thomas Reicher, a veteran employee benefits and compensation lawyer, is the latest partner to leave Palo Alto'...

LOS ANGELES - Today, a few close friends and family members will gather at an undisclosed location to mourn the passing of Mar...

SAN FRANCISCO - If your dog jumps out of your parked truck and bites a passerby, don't expect your auto insurer to pay damages...

SAN BERNARDINO - A jury Monday awarded $37.5 million to the parents of a girl who was struck by a car as she walked home from ...

RICHMOND - By his own admission, Contra Costa County Superior Court Judge Barry Baskin is the embodiment of the American dream...

Column By Garry Abrams - Hollywood transactional mega-lawyer Barry Hirsch's divorce from his old firm has entered a name-calli...

SAN FRANCISCO - Over a blistering dissent, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused Monday to reconsider a decision barri...

Column - Adviser - By Daniel M. Kolkey - Nothing persuades in appellate briefs or judicial opinions like a memorable turn of p...