LOS ANGELES - President Bush announced Wednesday his intention to nominate two Los Angeles civil litigators, Percy Anderson an...

SAN FRANCISCO - Calling San Francisco's ambulance service "morally blameworthy," a state appellate court ruled Wednesday that ...

Forum Column - By Alan Schlosser and Andrew Lurie, One of the extraordinary byproducts of the Sept. 11 attacks has been to thr...

SAN FRANCISCO - The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide the constitutionality of a law that it makes it a crim...

LOS ANGELES - One week after Sara Jane Olson was charged with the murder of a Northern California church volunteer and sentenc...

SACRAMENTO - A state lawmaker has renewed an effort to restore the rights of homeowners to sue for construction defects that p...

SANTA ANA - Two law firms have been sued by 42 former clients for alleged negligence, fraud, unfair business practices and eld...

SAN FRANCISCO -John O'Connor, a trial lawyer who co-founded San Francisco's Tarkington O'Connor & O'Neill more than 20 yea...

Forum Column - By Henry F. Cooper, The Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty is dead at last, thanks to the announcement that the Unit...

Column by Garry Abrams - Maybe it's because I'm a Southern California resident and have learned to accept the daily possibilit...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sonoma County District Attorney Mike Mullins is running hard for re-election against a strong challenge by one...

SACRAMENTO - A carefully drafted definition of a "smoking gun" could be the key to passing a bill that bans confidential disco...

LOS ANGELES - Do you consider yourself a dog person or a cat person? That is question No. 63 of a 29-page questionnaire that p...

Focus Column - By Richard S. Rosenberg and John J. Manier, California courts have been wrestling with whether to adopt the fe...

LOS ANGELES - John J. Quinn, a partner with Arnold & Porter, will receive Pepperdine University School of Law's Legal Hero...

Employment Law Practitioner Column - By Jennifer N. Lutz, This month, the U.S. Supreme Court made it more difficult for employ...

Dicta Column - By Betty Morris, Whether and when to terminate one's employment or employee is probably the most difficult deci...

Dicta Column - By Linda B. Bulmash, Winning negotiators know that dumb is sometimes smart. This may sound stupid, but the reas...

WASHINGTON - As the Senate Judiciary Committee opens new hearings on President Bush's judicial nominees today, a coalition of ...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury in Los Angeles is investigating whether New York-based Milberg Weiss Bershad Hynes & Le...

LOS ANGELES - Commissioner Gordon will be in session soon at the airport court. "Yes, I've heard all the Batman references," D...

OAKLAND - Members of the Alameda County Bar Association thought enough of G. Judson Scott Jr. to make him the organization's p...

SAN FRANCISCO -Ten days before the end of 2001, thousands of documents began pouring in to the Oakland offices of the state at...

LOS ANGELES - One of the most respected veterans of the plaintiffs' bar in Los Angeles and one of its up-and-coming members re...

LOS ANGELES - Lawyers for two leaders of the Jewish Defense League alleged Tuesday that a power-hungry member of the group fra...

LOS ANGELES - Loyola Law School professor and "quiet advocate" Gary C. Williams today becomes the first African-American presi...

WASHINGTON - The allegations are incredibly familiar. First, incriminating e-mails were deleted and sensitive documents shredd...

Forum Column - By Tad Daley, "We intend to find them," said U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in his first public stat...

SANTA CRUZ - One episode best illustrates Judge John Salazar's approach to his job on the Santa Cruz County juvenile court ben...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to consider whether they have jurisdiction to revisit the apportionment appro...