Morgan, Lewis & Bockius last week offered a West Coast twist to what looked to be essentially an East Coast acquisition. ...

The Scene was on the move to Santa Monica on a drizzly Saturday night, looking forward to getting a read on the night's main e...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY CARSON - Grubb & Ellis' Sean O'Donnell represented Aeronet Inc., an Irvine-based airfreight and logisti...

LOS ANGELES - About two dozen young people, dressed in orange jail T-shirts, rallied Friday outside the downtown Los Angeles C...

Although a grand jury decided not to indict him for criminal misconduct, the actions of a San Jose police officer who shot to ...

Focus Column - Litigation - By Gregg A. Farley - Do California courts have personal jurisdiction over an out-of-state seller t...

Focus Column - Alternative Dispute Resolution - By Steven G. Mehta - Most people underrate the amount of communication that ta...

LOS ANGELES - A man who showed up outside the Artesia home of his former girlfriend, shouted insults and threats and then stab...

LOS ANGELES - On Wednesday, affordable-housing advocates will celebrate the collaboration of two organizations that have helpe...

SAN JOSE - Former Santa Clara County Deputy Public Defender Thomas Spielbauer will stand trial on a misdemeanor charge of misl...

LOS ANGELES - The State Bar Court has recommended that one-time civil rights attorney A. Thomas Hunt, who resigned from the ba...

LOS ANGELES - Californians soon will have a say in major administrative and financial decisions by the courts, the courts' pol...

WASHINGTON - Police question a woman about a structure fire for a half-hour without telling her she has the right to remain si...

FRESNO - When Stephen Kane decided to apply for a vacant seat on the Fresno County Superior Court in 1992, he had a pretty goo...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marin County Superior Court Judge William McGivern has decided not to seek re-election and has filed for disab...

SAN FRANCISCO - Civil rights prosecutions of police officers are rare and tough to win. That makes the current federal grand j...

Forum Column - By Zoran K. Basich - Many estate planners don't know that revocable living trusts are a disaster for long-term ...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY CANOGA PARK - J.H. Snyder Co. sold Warner Marketplace, a 157,000-square-foot retail complex, to an undiscl...

Focus Column Insurance Law By Kirk Pasich Insureds can look to a number of policy provisions, as well as the doctrine of miti...

Employment Column By Deanna M. Wilkinson Autumn is always a busy time for law firms. Firms conduct on-campus interviews, stud...

Forum Column By Michael M. Berger One has to wonder what it is about large bureaucracies that makes them incapable of seeing ...

Forum Column By David Pallack Section 8 tenants in California face a difficult dilemma when their landlord decides that it no...

SAN FRANCISCO - David Lee likely will be the second of three San Francisco rookie police officers allegedly involved in an of...

SACRAMENTO - Acknowledging that the case was moot, a state appeal court nonetheless reached out Thursday and decided one of t...

UKIAH - Mendocino County Superior Court Judge Richard Henderson has joined some sizable groups in his life. He likes to say t...

SAN FRANCISCO - A woman allegedly tortured by her boyfriend with a hot iron blasted district attorney candidate Kamala Harris...

WASHINGTON - Critics of the Bush administration's handling of suspected "enemy combatants" at Guantnamo Bay said the governme...

SAN FRANCISCO - A proposed rule aimed at providing public access and input into trial court budgets and administration has ou...

SAN FRANCISCO - A state appellate court says a woman suspected of abusing her blind 83-year-old mother should be able to sue ...

SAN FRANCISCO - As a gay Latino, Anthony Romero is an important voice for a wide cross-section of minorities. To civil libert...