State Attorney General Kamala Harris has named UC Irvine law professor Katherine Porter to serve as a monitor of the mortgage ...

A federal judge in Riverside has ruled to award attorney fees and expenses to the non-profit organization that challenged th...

The judge who oversaw a personal-injury trial gone awry before the jury could award $9.4 million has given new details Friday ...

A new sentencing option allows offenders to receive a "split sentence" of jail time and post-release mandatory supervision by ...

A Northern District federal judge is poised to hear what may be the first trial in which both direct and indirect purchasers c...

The son of a lawmaker, Judge Peter Deddeh instead chose to practice and enforce the law. ...

Facebook Inc. snagged Joshua Smith as co-lead privacy counsel. He shares the title with Edward Palmieri and will report to dep...

Judge Victoria Kolakowski's biggest adjustment has been learning how not to be an advocate.

Working in an emergency room, where sick patients are often rushed to the hospital in desperate need of medical attention, is ...

The Anti-Defamation League held it’s annual event Tuesday to honor the winners of the Helene & Joseph Sherwood Family Priz...

A close reading of the U.N. Charter appears to be more liberal on the use of force than traditional international law. By Sara...

Speculative real estate lending is making a slow comeback and lawyers are finding such deals more difficult because of the tig...

The state's campaign finance watchdog will post judges' financial disclosure forms online but will first consider what informa...

A Marin County investment adviser faces SEC and criminal charges for allegedly defrauding investors of more than $4.5 million....

TravelCenters, one of the nation's largest truck stop operators, will pay a $1.2 million settlement for operating a faulty fue...

In the video game business, mobile gaming is the new frontier, but lawyers say mobile games present intellectual property risk...

Fenwick & West LLP corporate partners Douglas N. Cogen and Kris S. Withrow advised San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc. on it...

Three workers at a Mira Loma warehouse supplying Wal-Mart filed a proposed class action lawsuit Thursday in federal court, all...

A group of retired judges who are now mostly in their 80s, along with their spouses and heirs, are suing the Judicial Retireme...

Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and its contractors will pay $29.5 million to settle claims over their role in two major fires ...

The current debate over religious freedom and contraceptive coverage misunderstands constitutional principles. By Margaret Cro...

The San Diego U.S. attorney’s office announced Thursday an indictment of three men who allegedly operated a complex $51 millio...

The Senate confirmed white-collar defense lawyer Michael W. Fitzgerald to be a federal judge in Los Angeles on a 91-6 vote Thu...

Despite experience as a securities lawyer and efforts to stay under the radar of regulators, the founder of an online marketpl...

Edward Swanson and Mary McNamara started their own practice after five years together in the Northern District Federal Public ...

The state Supreme Court is once again delving into consumer class action law, granting review this week in several cases that ...

California's chief justice will find herself addressing a Legislature she has vigorously sparred with, but also relies on, as ...

For William S. O'Hare, a chance encounter at an opportune time led to a meeting with a corporate client with whom he would wor...

Almudena Bernabeu, international attorney and director of Transitional Justice Program for the San Francisco-based Center for ...

Murphy, Pearson, Bradley & Feeney PC Director Winston S. Keh was formally installed as president-elect of the Philippine A...