Forum Column - By Judd Legum - In June 2002, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, in a revealing admission of the Bush admini...

SAN FRANCISCO - One of the California Public Utilities Commission members who voted against a deal central to Pacific Gas and ...

STOCKTON - It's a murder mystery about a wrongfully convicted Albert Einstein doing time in a prison controlled by Nazi spies ...

LOS ANGELES - Bijan Darvish, one of two police officers involved in a violent 2002 arrest of a black teenager that was broadca...

SAN FRANCISCO - A local legal aid group Tuesday sued Nestlé and Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream alleging the companies refused to acc...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge has dismissed claims by the city of San Francisco that a peninsula contractor violated federal...

LOS ANGELES - Most visitors to the courtroom of Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William R. Pounders have no inkling of its he...

SAN FRANCISCO - When Amy Kerios applied for an in-house position in the legal department of Gap Inc. nearly five years ago, s...

LOS ANGELES - They're not kids you'd necessarily welcome into your home. Gino, a gangly 14-year-old with gel-gooped spiky hair...

LOS ANGELES - Sofya was 7 the first time she attempted suicide, by eating oleander leaves. She doesn't remember much, except g...

Forum Column - By Andra Barmash Greene and David Djavaherian - A recent case from the U.S. District Court for the Northern Dis...

Focus Column - Construction Law - By Bernard S. Kamine - California public agencies must allow public-works contractors to pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Placer County Superior Court Judge Joseph W. O'Flaherty, who was overturned in two cases for inviting potentia...

LOS ANGELES - In the nine months since her appointment, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa M. Chung has become known as the...

LOS ANGELES - A Monterey Park man who mailed letters containing a white powder that he claimed was the deadly anthrax bacteria...

SAN FRANCISCO - A former county medical examiner in San Diego won a long-running battle Monday with the Medical Board of Calif...

SACRAMENTO - As chief lobbyist for the California District Attorneys Association, Lawrence Brown tried for years to get toughe...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court Monday upheld the right of a Utah artist to use Mattel's copyright-protected Barbie in...

At the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region's celebration of the worldwide organization's 90th anniversary on Dec. ...

In his quest to photograph the entire California coast, environmentalist Ken Adelman will not have to leave out the stretch th...

An Irvine-based high-tech company claims that nearly everyone in the compact-disc burner industry is infringing on its patent....

BY DEBRA L. CARLTON Insuring real estate has not gotten any cheaper. To help readers stay current with the latest laws affect...

BY CHRIS TOLLES CREJ News Assistant Need a few extra bucks to close a deal? The nonprofit Genesis L.A., a self-proclaimed "we...

Column - Law Practice - By Sandford A. Lechtick - If someone had suggested to me two or three years ago that Brobeck, Phleger ...

BY LARRY RUBENSTEIN Another year of property management has flown by. Hopefully, this was a good year, but the question is: D...

Column - Law Practice - By Dennis Mccue - A new year is upon us, and it is traditional to resolve to reform bad habits. Yet, i...

The judicial council of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has appointed Erithe A. Smith to its bankruptcy appellate panel, the...

BY JULIE NAKASHIMA CREJ Staff Writer There's progress in the effort to open up the largest untapped market within Earth's gra...

BY MICHAEL GOTTLIEB CREJ Managing Editor For the intrepid residents of the adaptive reuse projects breathing new life into un...

BY PAUL W. TAYLOR Real estate professionals should be aware of the impact of a California court that recently reached opposit...