Two separate efforts - new legislation and a recently revived court challenge - could extend and potentially save the lives of...

The National Labor Relations Board has ruled class-action waivers in employment contracts violate federal labor law, creating ...

The State Bar has closed - without filing charges - an ethics investigation into a civil litigator accused of illegally interc...

A rare criminal price-fixing trial against a public company kicked off in the Northern District today against AU Optronics, a ...

In what may end up being the first IPO of the year, biofuel company Renewable Energy Group, Inc. has announced plans to sell r...

Consumers seeking to enjoin AT&T's now-dropped $39 billion merger with T-Mobile USA Inc. asked a federal judge Thursday fo...

An independent panel has cleared two government scientists of wrongdoing after a Fresno federal judge accused them of acting i...

One year into office, Gov. Jerry Brown has embarked on perhaps the single largest transformation of corrections and rehabilita...

A group of five corporate and intellectual property partners from Reed Smith LLP's Silicon Valley office have decamped the lig...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's announcement that it will scrap its policy of allowing some defendants to settle civi...

Lacking in criminal law experience, Judge Shelly Averill remedied that with scholarly zeal.

Bankruptcy Judge Mark S. Wallace stakes out a position then allows the debate to change his mind.

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

Indiana-based Barnes & Thornburg LLP snagged labor and employment attorney Howard Fabrick as partner in Los Angeles.

David T. Bristow became a judge to help ease a shortage of bench officers in the Inland Empire. ...

Getting rid of the State Bar's backlog of old discipline cases took commitment and hard work, according to the chief prosecuto...

Once a pharmacist with hopes of opening his own drug store, Joseph D'Antony has had to adapt to the world of lawyering, where ...

Being brief and to the point will help communicate your message more effectively. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall LLP ...

Ian M. Wallach and Jason K. Feldman say they want their firm to be a place clients can feel at home. ...

Lawsuits filed by advertisers against Google Inc. over its AdWords program suffered a major setback Thursday when a federal ju...

A $319 million verdict that shed light on Hollywood studios' alleged so-called "self-dealing" practices, is now in the throes ...

Steven J. Howell, a 24-year veteran of Butte County Superior and Municipal courts, announced his retirement, effective Feb. 29...

Governor Jerry Brown's proposed budget released Thursday fell short of restoring funding to the judiciary's slashed coffers, b...

A bill recently introduced in the state Legislature aims to blunt the effects of a state Supreme Court ruling eliminating the ...

Labor and employment specialist Howard Fabrick has left Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP in another of a series of defec...

The University of the Pacific's McGeorge School of Law on Thursday announced the appointment of a new dean. ...

A flood on the Truckee River in 1997 that destroyed a hydroelectric power dam led a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on...

John F. Finston, partner and head of the insurance regulatory practice at SNR Denton, will leave the firm to become deputy com...

An actor who led a "stormy" romantic relationship with deceased actress Farrah Fawcett can proceed in a $1 million defamation ...

A San Francisco federal judge upheld the use of genetically modified alfalfa on Thursday, ruling that the government did an ad...