Retailers around California are now on notice to follow hazardous waste laws or meet a similar fate to Wal-Mart Stores Inc., w...

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP secured an $11 million fixed-rate, 20-year loan for a joint venture between Pacific Prime Properti...

The Legislature has commanded that exemptions to labor laws be narrowly construed, and with good reason. By Norman B. Blumenthal

A district court recently denied plaintiffs' motion for class certification in a 6-year-old class-action lawsuit filed against...

If the case law is any indication, while frequently utilized, judicial notice is misunderstood. By Gary A. Watt and Ryan Rezaei

Despite some of the uncertainty that has tempered venture capital investing over the past few years, new quarterly data releas...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges it mishandled hazardous waste and will pay more than $81 million in ...

A former partner at accounting firm KPMG LLP agreed to plead guilty to fraud charges Tuesday as part of deal with federal pro...

Gordon & Rees LLP will be opening an Oakland office in 2014. The move involves relocating firmwide administrative staff f...

Hundreds of warehouse workers won the right to press forward with their employment lawsuit against Medline Industries Inc. in...

Attorneys in California and New York helped guide an all-Florida mortgage industry deal announced Tuesday - Fidelity National...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia unanimously ruled that Comcast did not discriminate against the unaffil...

The state's court system may be looking to overhaul and expand its offerings of language assistance to non-English speakers as...

Critics say the state Supreme Court may be the most conservative court in the country when it comes to defendants' Sixth Amend...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Tuesday upheld a lower court's order to stay the NFL's suit for a declaratory relief judgm...

It's tough when a lawyer wins the case but can't get paid. For immigration lawyers representing indigent clients facing deport...

London-based intellectual property firm EIP has opened an office in San Diego to offer its services to U.S.-based clients, the...

3D printers are seeping into the mainstream consciousness. A rapid drop in price is making small scale manufacturing processes...

The article "Judges under investigation will get more information, but enough?" may have created the misimpression that judges...

Four years after a coal company received a CWA permit, the EPA overturned the permit in light of "new information." A circuit ...

Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released 2011 data showing a great disparity among Califo...

In a win for California attorneys with Covington & Burling LLP and the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal judge det...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP selected partner Chris McNevin as head of its environment, land use and natural resources ...

Water districts serving the parched Central Valley farmers sued a state body on Friday alleging its move to protect the Sacram...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Google Inc. has suffered another setback in its efforts to use Motorola Mobility LLC patents to gain leverage in its smartpho...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Experts say Attorney General Kamala Harris' recent lawsuit against the financial giant is a well conceived case that strikes a...

Despite the Judicial Council's historic plan so far eliciting nothing but praise from county courts and legislators, courts th...

The lessons of the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 are timeless and true today, no matter what the stakes in our own cases. By Dan...