The court's 5-2 decision followed an investigation into accusations of juror misconduct. While the report's author, a superior...

Vringo Inc. announced Thursday it has entered into a settlement with Microsoft Corp., ending a patent infringement lawsuit the...

A state appellate panel on Thursday permanently enjoined the state from putting prisoners to death by lethal injection, agreei...

Lisa Klerman, an independent specialist in employment mediation, prepares and plans carefully for every session. She's also kn...

Justices on the state Supreme Court appeared sympathetic Thursday to a Mexican national facing deportation as a result of plea...

A bid by environmentalists to force public agencies to look at the environment's impact on a proposed development project, suc...

Assembly Bill 1173 is intended to provide partial relief from the additional 20 percent state penalty tax for violations of In...

The unanimous ruling forces Los Angeles County to provide the home addresses and phone numbers of its roughly 50,000 employees...

Attorneys who work with municipalities on telecommunications matters said they're encountering a bigger push from the wireless...

Months after the passage of Prop. 36, which reformed the state's three-strikes law, some legal experts and public defenders wo...

Although Prop. 13 was simple when passed, it has gradually become encrusted with many special rules and exemptions.

Conspiracy theories are on the rise, but what explains the acceptance of some of these patently irrational scenarios? By Josep...

Two youth soccer coaches formerly employed by Chivas USA filed a racial discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed has caused...

A quartet of stateside law firms orchestrated the largest-ever Chinese acquisition of a U.S. company - the $7.1 billion purcha...

An environment advocacy group has sued the California Energy Commission, claiming the agency wields too much decision-making a...

The San Francisco Sheriff's Department could be liable for an incident in which an officer struck a man in the face while he w...

State Supreme Court justices heard arguments Wednesday about whether law enforcement officers who shot a man to death can be l...

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...