Locally imposed taxes range from very low to moderately high, as indicated in the 2000 Kosmont Cost of Doing Business Survey-...

New initiatives address low-income populations San Francisco - The Center for Land Recycling has introduced both a new worksh...

By Julie Nakashima On the Westside of Los Angeles and other areas in California, red-hot leasing activity led by venture capi...

By Peter B. Gelblum. If a substituting lawyer or one concurrently representing a client commits malpractice, injuring the clie...

When father-and-son attorneys Ben and Thomas Roll won $14,000 on "The Wheel of Fortune" in May, most viewers probably assumed ...

By Eric Honig. The new federal asset-forfeiture act overhauls government procedures extensively, including strict notice, fili...

Theodore Roosevelt's appointment of Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to the high court shows no one can really predict how someone wi...

Santa Clara's Quantum Effect Devices Inc. has agreed to be acquired by Burnaby, British Colombia's PMC-Sierra Inc. in a deal v...

Contaminated land is hot and happening, according to Cox Castle & Nicholson. The firm's two-year-old San Francisco office ...

By Roger Jon Diamond. Artists should conduct a thorough investigation before presuming that older, unregistered recordings hav...

John Anderson launched the advertising group Heller Ehrman White & McAuliffe because he was attracted to the combination o...

In a novel ruling in a stock fraud case, a state appellate court has decided that shareholders can sue if a corporation gives ...

A Placer County judge who was recently censured by the state judicial watchdog commission for grabbing his bailiff's breasts h...

Why did the attorney cross the street? Well, if Cooley Godward partner David Lipkin gets his way, attorneys will seldom need t...

After a failed bid against Gil Garcetti for Los Angeles district attorney and a few years as head of the environmental group f...

Tanya Neiman is the director of the Volunteer Legal Services Program in San Francisco, whose goal is to help those who are not...

By Roger Jon Diamond. In Free Speech Coalition v. Reno, 198 F.3d 1083 (9th Cir. 1999), the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals s...

In a deal reached late Friday, the city of Los Angeles and protest groups have agreed to make a minor alteration to the fenced...

SAN JOSE - Yahoo! Inc., which is being sued by an Ohio message-board user for disclosing his personal identity in response to ...

Maria Montengo and her husband Albert wearily scrutinized the signs along the second floor of the Los Angeles County Courthous...

A state appellate court has ordered a man who threatened to kill Los Angeles County Supervisor Gloria Molina to return to cour...

A U.S. appellate court refused Friday to overturn murder-for-hire and narcotics convictions even though evidence in the case ...

In response to homeowners who complained that an influx of cars from a private school was destroying their exclusive Brentwoo...

A group of almost-lawyers waits, nervously, in the foyer of the Court of Appeal in Ventura. Armed with stacks of papers, notes...

SAN FRANCISCO - A man sentenced to three years in prison for theft by fraud must be resentenced because the judge who presided...

A vending machine that sells pre-paid phone cards and a chance at cash prizes is an illegal slot machine, an appellate panel ...

SANTA ANA - At 125 pounds and 5 years of age, Othello, a strapping male Rottweiler, had just won the title of "Best of Breed" ...

FULLERTON - Fresh out of law school, new attorneys often lack the skills needed to maneuver a client through the system. One O...

After decades of vows to add a public law school to the University of California system in Southern California, the new millen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Internet music maverick Napster Inc., having succeeded in staving off a court-ordered shutdown of its free onl...