Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - A recent 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling upholding punishments imposed solely f...

What you hear the trial judge say at the conclusion of the witness's testimony: "Thank you. You may step down ..." ...

ABC News bills the first two parts of its seven-part documentary "In the Jury Room" as an unprecedented and historic look at ...

Sensational reports of minority beatings by police aside, African-Americans in Los Angeles have more reason to fear the county...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In the flurry of decisions at the end of the Supreme Court's term in late June, not near...

Former Gov. George Deukmejian's independent review panel proposes 239 specific reforms to improve California's $6 billion cor...

In the Victorian age, when I was a child, a popular grownup adage was "children should be seen and not heard." ...

My April 22 article in this publication commented on recent rulings in the state regarding the ratio between compensatory and ...

Forum Column - By David A. Lash - Homelessness is killing us. It is destroying our cities, our schools and our children. It co...

Commercial arbitration practice, legislatively conceived as an alternative to litigation, initially used the knowledge and ski...

In the 42 years since the Supreme Court ruled in Robinson v. California 370 U.S. 660 (1962), that states could not, con...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - In the flurry of end of the term cases at the U.S. Supreme Court, not much attention has...

Focus Column - Appellate Law - By Paul D. Fogel and Benjamin G. Shatz - Given their limited resources, today's appellate court...

The hand over of power in Iraq comes at a time of unusual opportunity. Incredibly, despite the bloodshed and chaos of recent w...

Forum Column - By Robin Meadow and Stephen F. Rohde - With the Fourth of July approaching, we should pause and reflect on the ...

Focus Column - Criminal Law - By Erwin Chemerinsky and Laurie Levenson - From a practical perspective, few Supreme Court decis...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - Throughout American history, conservatives have used federalism as a way of opposing des...

Some view recent ACLU success in persuading Los Angeles and San Bernardino counties to remove crosses from their respective se...

Column - Closer - By Valerie Fontaine - A candidate otherwise doing well in the interviewing process can be shot down by a poo...

When French lawyer Jacques Verges recently filed a complaint before the International Court of Justice in The Hague against th...

On Dec. 20, 1997, Daniel Segovia, whom our office represented, was dragged - after all the cell doors on his row in a Men's Ce...

Forum Column - By David A. Lash - One of the great displays of respect for justice and the court system recently took place no...

In early April 2003, just prior to the conquest of Baghdad by coalition forces, Iraqi foreign minister Naji Sabri shared with ...

Forum Column - By Michael Waterstone - Last week, the Supreme Court decided Tennessee v. Lane as lawyers interested in ...

Forum Column - By Erwin Chemerinsky - The 9th Circuit's recent decision in Ramirez v. Castro, 2004 DJDAR 5048 (9th Cir....

For the security of American soldiers and civilians, our leaders must do more than reaffirm their belief in an open, accountab...

Forum Column - By Stephen F. Rohde - Fifty years ago today, the United States Supreme Court issued its historic and unanimous ...

Forum Column - By Mike Schmier - Have you been burned by an unpublished appellate opinion that ignored well-established rules ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Paul D. Fogel and Benjamin G. Shatz - A motion for summary judgment is probably the most import...

Be prepared to answer a question, but first here are the facts: Stanley Williams, aka "Tookie," murdered the employee of a 7-1...