Who cares if it's true. The tabloids had a feeding frenzy anyway when a photographer alleged he had caught Mick Jagger, the Ro...

Employment Column - By Donald C. Potter and Samuel T. McAdam, The California Legislature recently broadened the state's tough ...

Like his clients who own strip clubs, music venues and bars, Southern California attorney Michael N. Schonbuch is comfortable ...

Employment Column - By Sue Bendavid-Arbiv, In the context of harassment in the workplace, looking at someone for too long now ...

Employment Column - By Valerie A. Fontaine, One of the many dramatic changes that has swept the legal profession is the increa...

SANTA ANA - Following a 14-month investigation, a former Huntington Beach councilman and ex-mayor pleaded guilty Thursday to o...

SAN FRANCISCO - Longtime San Francisco estate planning and tax lawyer Luther Avery, also widely known for his pro bono work, h...

OAKLAND - Attorney General Bill Lockyer on Thursday filed a lawsuit under the state's powerful unfair business practices law c...

SAN FRANCISCO - Siskiyou County court employees have filed a lawsuit against the local superior court and two court executives...

SACRAMENTO - In the first case of its kind, a wrongfully convicted inmate has been freed under a new state DNA testing statute...

SACRAMENTO - Gov. Gray Davis, faced with a $12.5 billion budget shortfall, presented a proposed 2002-2003 budget Thursday that...

LOS ANGELES - A second Pakistani student arrested during the Sept. 11 terrorism probe changed his plea in federal court Thursd...

LOS ANGELES - A federal grand jury Wednesday indicted two Jewish Defense League leaders on four counts of plotting to blow up ...

LOS ANGELES - Just 11 days into 2002, San Francisco's Brobeck Phleger & Harrison already has experienced enough bad news t...

WASHINGTON - Attorney General John D. Ashcroft's quick decision Thursday to remove himself from the criminal probe into the co...

LOS ANGELES - Prosecutors filed child molestation charges Wednesday against an Orange County Superior Court judge who is under...

Dicta Column - By David H. Brickner, Attorneys generally react to opposing counsel's objection in trial in a variety of ways. ...

Tax Law Practitioner Column - By Robert W. Wood, In the stiffly starched world of the Internal Revenue Service, it may seem su...

DENVER - As a one-time member of Canada's national basketball team, Salt Lake City attorney Dave Turcotte never expected to be...

Dicta Column - By Douglas G. Carnahan, We see the judges look like lions, but we do not see who moves them. - John Selden, Eng...

SAN BERNARDINO - Dan Lough, former second-in-command at the district attorney's office, and Barry Bruins, the office's former ...

LOS ANGELES - Resolving a dispute over the wording of a ballot measure in a Huntington Beach city election, an appeals court h...

Column by Garry Abrams - Word that the federal government apparently has closed a six-year investigation of Death Row Records ...

LOS ANGELES - On a recent afternoon in a crowded coffee shop in Pasadena, the pretty young woman with long, blond hair quickly...

LOS ANGELES - In a special session, the Metropolitan Transit Authority board Wednesday voted to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Cou...

LOS ANGELES - A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday that, while there were errors and irregularities in polling p...

SAN FRANCISCO - The decades-old Geronimo Pratt saga swerved into a fee fight among his lawyers Wednesday as Oakland attorney R...

Forum Column - By Judith F. Daar, With little fanfare or public notice, President George W. Bush recently sounded the death kn...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal statute requiring the detention of lawful resident aliens without bail while they fight deportation ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Sheila Gonzalez, regional administrative director of the Administrative Office of the Courts for Southern Cali...