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...

SANTA ROSA - Sonoma County Superior Court Judge Gary Nadler has spent his career jumping into the deep end. He started practic...

LOS ANGELES - Roger Arnebergh, Los Angeles city attorney from 1953 through 1973, has died. Arnebergh died Jan. 25 of natural c...

LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Wednesday agreed to pay $116,000 in attorney fees to settle a law...

SAN DIEGO - In 1994, four years before U.S. District Judge Marilyn Huff became chief judge in the Southern District, she began...

SACRAMENTO - The California Supreme Court seemed skeptical Wednesday of an auto insurer's attempt to deny public access to ind...

SACRAMENTO - Three years ago, while on work assignment at the California Men's Colony in San Luis Obispo, Ronnie Young perform...

Column By Garry Abrams - Chairman Michael Eisner's reported rejection of Comcast's bid for the Walt Disney Co. this week will ...

LOS ANGELES - A Koreatown supermarket that has been embroiled in labor disputes for the past two years has been hit with new c...

SAN JOSE - An attorney representing the former Los Gatos police detective accused of conspiring with Santa Clara County Superi...

Forum Column - By David Benjamin Oppenheimer - Trial lawyers and social scientists look at jury verdicts from very different v...

Book Review - Rebecca Forster, "Hostile Witness" (Signet 2004) - By Laurie L. Levenson - Only one thing complicates the practi...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By William J. Rose When an established partnership, family business or other c...

LOS ANGELES - Services will be held this afternoon for Bruce Vann, a West Los Angeles entertainment attorney who helped struct...

OAKLAND - Defense attorneys for three former Oakland police officers known as the Riders railed against Oakland officials Tues...

SAN FRANCISCO - Townsend and Townsend and Crew, a San Francisco firm best known for its intellectual property and antitrust pr...

SAN FRANCISCO - Frank Cox, a Marin County public defender who represented one of the accused in the notorious "San Quentin Six...

LOS ANGELES - Herbert Semmel, a staff attorney with the National Senior Citizens Law Center and a noted civil rights lawyer, h...

TULARE - The wheels of justice move a bit slower in Judge Walter Gorelick's courtroom. The 58-year-old jurist likes to spend t...

LOS ANGELES - Attorneys for accused child molester Michael Wempe on Wednesday attacked the credibility of the 24-year-old man ...

SACRAMENTO - Failing to show up for oral argument before the state's highest court is never good. And in the case of Allen J. ...