Forum Column - By Ronald A. Zumbrun - One of the major land use issues of the day relates to how to maintain quality of life w...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal jury's guilty verdict last year cost Sacramento civil litigator James M. Culliton his bar card and h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The powerful committee representing unsecured creditors in the Pacific Gas & Electric Co. bankruptcy threw...

LOS ANGELES - A judge ordered the city of South Gate Thursday to temporarily stop the financing of its city treasurer's crimin...

LOS ANGELES - A federal appeals court has asked the state high court to decide whether a policy meant to ensure racial balance...

LOS ANGELES - A woman who was convicted of cocaine possession, but had her conviction set aside because she completed a drug t...

LOS ANGELES - O'Melveny & Myers, Jones Day Reavis & Pogue and Sidley Austin Brown & Wood are among the firms recru...

Forum Column - By Saul B. Wilen - America has the ability to win the global war on terrorism, but, at the same time, America h...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court stopped short Thursday of banning electric stun belts in criminal trials but caut...

Dicta Column - By Cassandra C. Shivers - Thousands of law school graduates who recently passed the Bar Exam now face the next ...

Dicta Column - By Ross Gerber - Few things can be accurately predicted 10 or 20 years into the future. But one that can be is ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - In a tight legal market, as always, it pays to remember the job search basics

Column by Garry Abrams - Has Austin Powers' nemesis Dr. Evil been performing cloning experiments on Winnie the Pooh? That's th...

SAN FRANCISCO - Any librarian will tell you that books about witchcraft, the occult and numerology tend to disappear mysteriou...

SACRAMENTO - California's financial crunch has derailed a bill that would have allowed the judiciary to convert 10 court commi...

SAN FRANCISCO - Local Francisco litigator Fred Furth has settled claims that he stole several lucrative lawsuits from a Color...

LOS ANGELES - The White House reportedly has selected two Orange County attorneys to nominate to the federal bench in Los Ange...

LOS ANGELES - In a blow to proponents of alternative energy, a state appellate court has ruled that state regulators no longer...

SACRAMENTO - A measure that would allow victims of gender-based violence to sue their attackers for damages in civil rights ac...

Focus Column - By Sonya Sud - California recently has experienced an onslaught of wage-and-hour class actions aimed at recove...

Dicta Column - On the Courthouse Steps - Should the Pledge Be Recited in Schools? - "The pledge should stay intact without cha...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - History, the cliché tells us, is a continuum. The seeds of World War II were sown at V...

Focus Column - By Michael A. Shimokaji - The time that businesses spend accessing the Internet for information continues to in...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - As every lawyer knows, the rule against hearsay evidence is intended to prevent the trier ...

SAN DIEGO - With the conviction of David A. Westerfield in the death of Danielle van Dam, defense lawyers searching for ammuni...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Sacramento law bookstore owner who tried to use the anti-government Montana Freemen method of raising money ...

Forum Column - By Rob DeKoven - Thirty years ago, Congress passed Title IX, a federal law designed to prohibit gender bias in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Southern California law firm representing two elderly investors has filed suit against a stock market group,...

LOS ANGELES - On one of the walls in the Torrance chambers of Superior Court Judge James M. Ideman hangs a small, black-and-wh...

SAN FRANCISCO - Jeremy Burke was beaten by the cops, he says, confined in a San Francisco jail for eight days and denied medic...