Gov. Gray Davis and Sen. Dianne Feinstein Wednesday announced their endorsements of incumbent District Attorney Gil Garcetti, ...

When Joseph Lieberman said while campaigning in Michigan that "the Constitution guarantees freedom of religion, not freedom fr...

The Van Nuys Self-Help Legal Access Center opened its doors to civil pro per litigants of all stripes Wednesday morning with p...

The issues are central to regulatory takings litigation. Answers to all of them will be most welcome - so long as they are cle...

If you're thinking about getting a domestic violence protective order, your abuser better be someone you've been seriously cou...

RIVERSIDE - A $3 million settlement has been reached in the lawsuit filed by the family of Tyisha Miller, whose controversial ...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County attorney who was disparaged on a Web site after a dispute with a former client has struck back wi...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund on Wednesday announced its opposition to Proposition 38, the school vouc...

SACRAMENTO - In a move that could renew fears that the State Bar Court will become politicized, a staff attorney to the state ...

The world is such a strange and wonderful place that sometimes even lawyers are struck by magic. For instance, on a visit to L...

SANTA CRUZ - District Attorney Ron Ruiz and challenger Kate Canlis will lock horns one more time Tuesday in a runoff battle th...

As a sergeant charged in the Los Angeles Police Department's Rampart scandal continued Wednesday to testify in excruciating de...

Alleged killer Mary Ross is expected to enter a plea Friday in Contra Costa County Superior Court in the shooting death of her...

Still smarting over its exclusion from the negotiating table, the Police Protective League filed court documents Wednesday try...

As certain public figures could probably attest, some fantasies are better kept a secret.

By Ronald McNees First time in almost 15 years raw land in the Bakersfield area is selling with an eye toward developing it o...

As documented in the 2000 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey -National Online Edition , the cities of Bakersfield, Porterv...

By Julie Nakashima Working on a computer sometimes can be like watching "The Outer Limits" - some unseen force seems to be in...

National median salary, bonus and total cash compensation levels for several positions. SALARY BONUS TOTAL Vice President - P...

By John McCloud The role of the real estate investment advisers in institutional investment has generally been fairly clear c...

Despite voter interest in the environment, the presidential campaign has barely scratched the surface of key environmental iss...

A salary war could be brewing on the other side of the country this year. Days after word got out that New York's Sullivan &am...

By John McCloud Ernest J. Pearson, president of Lee & Associates in Stockton, has worked the Central Valley commercial re...

Most commentators agree that more cases are lost at oral argument than are won there. ...

Senior care community planned in Culver City Culver City - JBZ Architecture + Planning of Newport Beach unveiled the design f...

By Ann Banning-Wright Companies have invested billions of dollars in telco hotels, data centers and other critical facilities...

The region around San Joaquin includes multiple counties and even more business-destination cities. The 2000 Kosmont Cost of ...

A jury convicted a Whittier man Tuesday of first-degree murder in the 1999 killing of his half sister, the wife of Los Lobos b...

SAN RAFAEL - Until recently it seemed as though Commissioner Randolph E. Heubach would be relegated to the same criminal depar...

SAN DIEGO - As the nation's busiest federal court faces a workload crisis, U.S. district judges in California's Southern Distr...