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...

LOS ANGELES - When his friends and colleagues talk about veteran prosecutor Kenneth Lamb, their minds turn to baseball. If La...

LOS ANGELES - When Santa Barbara County District Attorney Thomas W. Sneddon Jr., portable toilet in tow, led a posse of inves...

SAN FRANCISCO - Appellate Justice Arthur Scotland may be old enough - 57 - to join the American Association for Retired Peopl...

LOS ANGELES - Kids appearing before Superior Court Referee Stephanie M. Davis in the Inglewood delinquency court may be in fo...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY BEVERLY HILLS - David Kaufman of Marcus & Millichap is marketing a four-story apartment building built ...

LOS ANGELES - More than 1,500 members of the legal community will converge in Hollywood today to commemorate the 100th anniver...

Focus Column - Family Law - By Mari J. Frank - How is it possible for a divorcing couple's attorneys to facilitate a peaceful ...

Focus Column - Real Property - By Michael Paul Thomas - In Avila v. Jado Properties Inc., 112 Cal.App.4th 405 (2003), t...

Forum Column - By Michael S. Fields - Some of us aging attorneys recall the days when it took nearly five years to start a tri...

LOS ANGELES - Federal authorities are investigating a string of letters that threatened potential candidates with torture or d...

LOS ANGELES - An attorney violated the California Bar's Rules of Professional Conduct when he sought to buy property with a cl...

WASHINGTON - Santa Clarita attorney Allan J. Favish ran into a stone wall Wednesday at the Supreme Court in his crusade to obt...

LOS ANGELES - Karen Paull, the force behind fund-raising at the nation's largest public interest law firm, has died. She was 6...

SAN DIEGO - A state appellate court has upheld a jury award of $81,000 to a woman who was badly burned during tattoo removal i...

LOS ANGELES - Midway through trial in a commercial rental dispute this summer, Judge Craig D. Karlan did some research and dis...

Column By Garry Abrams - Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse reportedly tried to make peace over lunch. Well, not exactly. But Pa...

OROVILLE - Barely a year after winning appointment to his new job, Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Glusman found h...

LOS ANGELES - The lawyer for the former chief financial officer of a Southern California computer firm told jurors in his fede...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal appeals court dealt a blow Wednesday to a key portion of a 1996 federal anti-terrorism law by declar...

SAN FRANCISCO - The Roman Catholic Diocese of Oakland has agreed to pay $1 million plus $50,000 for counseling to a man who wa...

LOS ANGELES COUNTY LOS ANGELES - Cornerstone On Broadway LLC acquired 24,210 square feet of industrial property in the "Toy To...