SAN FRANCISCO - Whether lawyers are looking to volunteer with senior citizens in Contra Costa County or with people with HIV ...

Focus Column - By Marina Porche - To avoid the expense of litigation, public-sector employers should consider requiring arbitr...

Employment Column - By Anthony J. Oncidi and Benjamin Davidson - Periodically, there are copyright cases that address employme...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - There seems to be an undercurrent buzzing around the legal community, both bench and bar, ...

LOS ANGELES - A man whose murder conviction was reversed last year after he spent 24 years in prison has added former Distric...

LOS ANGELES - The lawsuits scared off Dalena E. Hunter. The 25-year-old graduate student at UCLA once downloaded free music a...

LOS ANGELES - In the days of the Old West, judges traveled by horseback and held court when they arrived at settlement outpost...

SAN FRANCISCO - Another year brought another 15,000 cases to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But none of the 2005 cases...

LOS ANGELES - Score one for the wild peacocks. Feral peafowl roaming the parklands and canyons of Palos Verdes Estates have wo...

SANTA ANA - Over the last two years, the Blackbird Music Project has put on several free orchestral concerts and provided the ...

FELONY REVERSED - A teenager who pocketed a cell phone that another youth dropped after fleeing a brawl did not commit the fel...

LOS ANGELES - Four Los Angeles County Superior Court bench officers are slated for retirement. They are Judges Richard G. Kolo...

OFFICE LONG BEACH - Holliday Fenoglio Fowler arranged a $19.1 million, 10-year loan to lock in a fixed rate through Aetna Lif...

LOS ANGELES - When Melanie Jo Triebel enrolled at Chapman School of Law, she hoped the long hours spent pouring over legal tex...

Focus Column - By Geoffrey S. Sheldon and Connie M. Chuang - In enacting the anti-retaliation provision of Title VII of the 19...

Forum Column - By John C. Eastman - On June 9, 1941 - six months before the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor that would bring t...

LOS ANGELES - It took more than 40 lawyers, but Arden Realty Inc., Southern California's largest office landlord, finally rea...

BALTIMORE - Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall may have been dead for more than a decade, but his fractious relationship ...

LOS ANGELES - Thanks to the U.S. solicitor general, Anna Nicole Smith - former Playboy Playmate, one-time Guess model, retired...

SAN FRANCISCO - As natural disasters found notoriety in 2005, California's legal scene was making waves of its own. News junki...

SAN FRANCISCO - The family of convicted murderer Scott Peterson has hired two prominent Bay Area criminal defense attorneys t...

MORE TIME TO FILE - An inmate who did not have access to his legal documents while being held in solitary confinement should b...

DISBARMENTS Castrellon, Sue Ellen , Chula Vista Schaefer, John M. , Las Vegas RESIGNATIONS Moats, Donald Gene , Walnut Creek S...

Prolific inventor Jerome Lemelson closely guarded his technology patents for almost half a century and in turn became rich of...

WASHINGTON - After a decade of stability at the Supreme Court, 2005 was a momentous year that brought uncertainty, surprise a...

JUDGE REPRIMANDED - The state Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished a San Bernardino County Superior Court j...

SAN JOSE - Essex Apartment Value Fund II purchased The Enclave apartment complex at 4355 Renaissance Drive for $127 million. D...

Focus Column - By Marvin A. Kirsner - A new film tax incentive that was created by the Jobs Creation Act of 2004 to encourage ...

Forum Column - By Marc Angelucci and Glenn Sacks - At the age of 11, Maegan Woods tried to stop a domestic dispute between her...

Forum Column - By David B. Rivkin and Lee A. Casey - Shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, President Bush ordered surveillance o...