By Stefanie Knapp Joining the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles at its annual installation dinner dance Jan. 31, ...

Focus Column Intellectual Property By John T. McNelis "We have an invention but don't want to spend a lot of money protecting...

Forum Column By Vicky Barker and Bethany Leal January marked the 31st anniversary of Roe v. Wade. California - always ahead of...

Forum Column By John Norton Moore, Malvina Halberstam and Tony Onorato For nearly a decade, Congress and the executive branch...

SAN FRANCISCO - John Tennison, who spent 13 years in state prison for murder before he was exonerated in October, has filed a...

LOS ANGELES - A salesman for a company that sprays on truck bed liners has won a jury verdict of $11.3 million for a 2001 acc...

Reporter's Notebook By Craig Anderson SAN JOSE - Randy Bishop, the former Los Gatos police detective charged as a co-conspira...

Column By Garry Abrams Last week was an exceptionally busy news week, even for California, the state that just can't say no t...

ALAMEDA - Superior Court Commissioner Tom Rasch once invited litigants to his house in Alameda. The occasion was not social. ...

LOS ANGELES - The burley man stood before Los Angeles Superior Court Commissioner Stuart M. Rice one day recently, toting a p...

SAN FRANCISCO - A scaled-back version of a settlement state Attorney General Bill Lockyer once blasted as collusive and a thr...

^^CHANGE IN BIO BOX^^ ^^Labor Law^^ Politicians chase labor -union endorsements, while union leaders seek greater clout in the...

Focus Column - Intellectual Property - By Andrew Klungness and Jessica J. Slusser - The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rece...

Forum Column - By Melanie E. Lomax - Some may view a third trial of former Inglewood Police Officer Jeremy Morse as an exercis...

Forum Column - By Father Greg Boyle - Mother Teresa said, lamenting the state of things in the world some years ago, "Our prob...

Employment Column - By Valerie Fontaine - Most lawyers, at some point in their career, consider relocating either to another s...

Forum Column - By Kenneth Theisen - On Dec. 29, 2003, the General Accounting Office released a report titled "Department of En...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday for retired Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Nancy Belcher Watson. Watson died...

LOS ANGELES - A truck driver and his wife won a jury verdict of $13 million for a 1999 forklift accident that left him partial...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutor Steven J. Ipsen, who ran into trouble this year with a public attack on two Los Angeles Superior Cour...

WASHINGTON - Two weeks ago, federal public defender Frank Dunham traveled from his office in Northern Virginia to a Navy base ...

SAN FRANCISCO - It was 1966, and the House Un-American Activities Committee was grilling student anti-war protesters during a ...

SAN DIEGO -In one of the first settlements of its kind in the nation, state Attorney General Bill Lockyer has reached an agree...

SAN FRANCISCO - "The contract of marriage is serious," San Francisco Assessor Mabel Teng said Thursday. "It is not to be taken...

LOS ANGELES - California thrust itself into the national debate over gay marriage Thursday when San Francisco became the first...

OAKLAND - As the bailiff asked the courtroom to come to order and please remain seated, Alameda County Juvenile Court Commissi...

LOS ANGELES - It took a couple of tries, but juvenile camp helped turn Alfonso Visvet's life around, he said. "The camps are l...

Focus Column - Employment Law - By Jeffrey K. Winikow - Thirty years ago, a "personnel expert" would have done little more tha...

Forum Column - By Gary Phillips - Inglewood voters will probably decide in April whether they want a Wal-Mart Supercenter buil...

Forum Column - By Don T. Hibner Jr. - It is appalling that Attorney General Bill Lockyer has made a determination to file a fe...