Dicta Column - By David A. Brickner - Here is a recipe for increasing your effectiveness in oral argument before the court by ...

LOS ANGELES - If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it, did it make any noise? Similarly, if county supervisors take ...

LOS ANGELES - Ralph Cormany, a founding partner of Ventura County's largest law firm, Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton, an...

LOS ANGELES - The Board of Education has voted to complete the $154 million Belmont Learning Complex in downtown Los Angeles. ...

Column by Garry Abrams - When I was a kid, I lived in a part of the country that the Strategic Air Command thought was perfect...

SANTA ANA - Orange County Judge Ronald Kline may face some tough legal obstacles in his request to withdraw his name from a ru...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors continued to attack Marjorie Knoller's credibility Wednesday, underscoring that her statements on a ...

Focus Column - By Michelle A. Reinglass - Several employees of Countrywide Securities Corp. have challenged their employer's e...

SAN FRANCISCO - The most compelling scene in "Presumed Guilty," a new documentary about San Francisco public defenders, is a q...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former law student with no criminal history, who has served half of a 32-year murder sentence, won reversal ...

LOS ANGELES - Three African-American employees of Lockheed Martin in Palmdale have filed a racial discrimination suit against ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A lawsuit accusing Bank of China managers of embezzling $73 million will remain in San Francisco courts, a jud...

SAN FRANCISCO - A new plan to slow the frenzied annual rush by federal judges to hire the best and brightest law clerks may en...

LOS ANGELES - Public Counsel Law Center, the nation's largest public interest law firm, has named Los Angeles' Gibson, Dunn &a...

SANTA BARBARA - For the second time this year, a judge has set aside a capital murder indictment because women are underrepres...

WASHINGTON - The Judicial Conference reversed itself Wednesday by allowing criminal court records in some courts to be posted ...

LOS ANGELES - In the 1960s, Arthur Lee couldn't have gone out in public without people gawking at him - his signature look bei...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - Reichmarshall Hermann Goering of the Third Reich once said: "It is always a simple matter to...

LOS ANGELES - Judge Charles W. "Tim" McCoy Jr. takes quality standards seriously. So seriously that he's written a book - "Why...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA - A judge has ordered Richard and Agnes Wiebe to stand trial on charges that they refused to seek medical att...

LOS ANGELES - Garment workers who sewed clothes sold by Forever 21 have reached a settlement with a major Los Angeles clothing...

SAN FRANCISCO - In a quarter-century of being a trial lawyer, Terence McMahon has never found a case he couldn't litigate. The...

LOS ANGELES - A lawyer's tribute for Malcolm Archbald, founder of Archbald & Spray in Santa Barbara, will take place on Ma...

Dicta Column - By Andrew T. Cavagnaro and Elise G. Devecchio-Cavagnaro - How juries interact and make decisions is extremely c...

Dicta Column - By JoAnne Earls Robbins - Many lawyers feel an icy panic when they get a letter from the State Bar office of th...

Forum Column - By Gloria Allred and John Steven West - Should a mother be presumed to be unfit to have custody of her childre...

Focus Column - By David M. Grey - The limitation on liquidated damages in the California Association of Realtor's form "Reside...

SACRAMENTO - A proposal to amend California's three-strikes sentencing law to exclude individuals convicted of minor crimes cl...

LOS ANGELES - After District Attorney Steve Cooley took office last year, detectives and victims' relatives persuaded him to t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A Superior Court judge will be asked today to assess China's judiciary as he determines which country's courts...