LOS ANGELES - Asking donors to "give a little bit" always has been a necessity for public interest providers. But fund-raising...

WASHINGTON - Taking on a case involving a historic San Francisco restaurant, the Supreme Court on Friday agreed to examine th...

SAN FRANCISCO - In 1981, Hollywood gave us a look into the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court with "First Monday in October," ...

WASHINGTON - Barbara C. Clark, executive director of the nonprofit Legal Foundation of Washington in Seattle, recalls the rude...

Focus Column - By Jeffrey W. Hawkins, Recently promulgated regulations that provide for low-risk loans to property developers ...

Environmental Law Practitioner Column - By William D. Wick, When is a parent corporation liable for the cleanup of its subsidi...

Forum Column - By Eileen C. Moor, California is a state of linguistic diversity. There are 224 languages and numerous other di...

Forum Column - By Richard A. Samp, Hundreds of millions of dollars are appropriated each year by federal and state governments...

Forum Column - By Jack W. Londen, Interest on Lawyer Trust Account funds generate more than $10 million every year. These fund...

LOS ANGELES - Equal justice advocates throughout the United States are turning to an ancient source to support an argument tha...

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...