After losing a bid to get the case against her dismissed Wednesday, Susan Skaer - the former general counsel at Mercury Intera...

Speaking at a San Francisco public high school Wednesday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye emphasized her life story as the y...

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District filed criminal securities fraud charges against 16 defendants who together...

Orange County officials on Wednesday agreed to allow Muslim women to wear hijabs, or religious scarves, during their time in t...

In recent years, some DA offices have created conviction integrity units to double-check the work of prosecutors to ensure con...

The state Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to hear arguments on whether to reinstate certain bribery charges against defendants ...

IMT Capital LLC, a private equity firm, and its affiliate apartment operator Sherman Oaks-based IMT Residential, purchased the...

More immigrants who confront street gangs in their home countries may merit asylum, thanks to a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appe...

The U.S. government received and approved record numbers of initial EB-5 application forms last year, and lawyers saw plenty o...

The decision held that then-Mayor Jerry Sanders was obligated to negotiate the measure with labor unions before taking it to v...

Gov. Brown's State of the State speech included this statement: "Equal treatment for children in unequal situations is not jus...

Police departments may have a cold case unit for very old crimes, but no proactive unit to deal with ticking time bombs in the...

Manage office romance so you don't have to manage a lawsuit. By Anthony J. Oncidi and Adam Freed

The Contra Costa firefighters' and sheriff's deputies' unions are suing the county retirement system to restore pensions they ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a Federal Circuit case re-affirming the lead compound analysis for determining the...

The diagnostic term for fear of losing power is known clinically as "range anxiety." Here's how I deal with it. By Paul Kiesel

Should officers who report misconduct be subject to discharge merely because their allegations ultimately cannot be substantia...

Marcella O. McLaughlin is making history as the first Latino president of the San Diego County Bar Association. In like fashio...

A State Bar task force is in agreement that new attorneys should receive more hands-on training at the beginning of their care...

Steuart L. Pittman, who cofounded what's now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, died on Sunday at the age of 93.

The judicial branch may push back against the governor's proposal to take $200 million in courthouse construction funds.

The State Bar is taking a preliminary look at whether to phase out unaccredited law schools, but administrators from such scho...

Disgraced former tomato processing executive Scott F. Salyer was sentenced to six years in federal prison Tuesday for mastermi...

Two lawyers are poised to unleash a flood of lawsuits against a slew of major companies alleging that they are failing to warn...

Amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit foreign lawyers to appear in court in certain situations and ...

Shasta County Judge Jack Halpin, who initially retired in 1964, started hearing cases through the state's temporary Assigned J...

The bankruptcy court presiding over Stockton's Chapter 9 case issued a written opinion on Feb. 5. By David Kupetz ...