SAN DIEGO - A dental patient filed a Superior Court class action Thursday alleging that a California Dental Association disput...

Dicta Column - Court Jesters - In In Re Jesus Ramirez , Justice Court of California, Tuolumne County, Case No. 516 (185...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine - Legal hiring, like the economy, is cyclical. It is no longer news that, followin...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan - Every column-writer, even one on legal subjects, should be permitted from time to time...

WASHINGTON - After a contentious Judiciary Committee meeting on whether the Senate should confirm Charles W. Pickering of Miss...

Focus Column - By Alex Ricciardulli - Judicial authority over juveniles charged with crimes took a huge blow when the Californ...

LOS ANGELES - When Judge Arthur L. Alarcon was a young lawyer, he co-prosecuted a legendary murder case. Intrigue and mystery ...

LOS ANGELES - Expanding its litigation practice, Philadelphia-based Morgan Lewis & Bockius has nabbed three environmental ...

LOS ANGELES - After a federal judge dismissed a complaint by garment workers for unpaid wages and benefits, Forever 21, a popu...

LOS ANGELES - Three Southern California district attorneys went into Tuesday's election battling accusations of misconduct, bu...

LOS ANGELES - After a campaign marked by record-breaking spending and accusations of mudslinging, Gregory Totten won a resound...

SAN FRANCISCO - A jury foreman made a mistake when he lifted a piece of tape, peeked at a booking photo underneath and deduced...

Forum Column - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - The confluence of a federal court of appeals case and a recent speech by President Bush ha...

SAN FRANCISCO - Tuesday's primary election produced mixed results for Northern California's incumbent judges and district atto...

SACRAMENTO -A little more than a year ago, when the Legislature debated whether to extend the statute of limitations for claim...

LOS ANGELES - The term "no-nonsense" comes up often when lawyers describe how Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Robert J. Higa ...

LOS ANGELES - Defense attorneys brought several more witnesses to the stand on Wednesday to vouch for the sociability of two l...

LOS ANGELES - About 60,000 people die each year in Los Angeles County, and nearly a third of those end up as coroner's cases. ...

Focus Column - By Donald M. Gindy - A classic conflict played out recently: The duly enacted laws of a sovereign nation, the U...

Focus Column - By Hans Lapping - California, like most other states, has developed an expedited unlawful-detainer process by ...

Dicta Column - By Adrienne L. Krikorian and Jeffrey A. Tidus - The majority of civil litigators believe that they are familia...

Column by Garry Abrams - Andrew Zacks is a leading candidate for the most vilified lawyer in San Francisco. For instance, a ro...

Forum Column - By Harold Johnson - Hundreds of owners of small parcels near Lake Tahoe have grown old waiting for permission t...

LOS ANGELES - The first defense witnesses to testify in the trial of two San Francisco lawyers whose dogs killed a 33-year-old...

SAN DIEGO - Judge Robert C. Coates is a rock hound. "I think geology is philosophically thrilling," Coates said. "The subject ...

LOS ANGELES - Intertainment Licensing GmbH will have to pay $6.5 million for distribution rights to the 2001 film "Caveman's V...

LOS ANGELES - A state appellate court has affirmed a judgment of the San Diego Superior Court ordering the San Diego City Coun...

Forum Column - By Tad Daley - On Sept. 27, the Los Angeles Times produced a lengthy examination of the biographical journeys t...

Forum Column - By Michael M. Faenza - Communities are promoting special mental-health courts to respond to the increasing numb...

WASHINGTON - Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy told a Senate panel Tuesday that unless federal judges receive long overdue...