Monitors will be on the lookout at polling locations in Alameda, Fresno and Riverside counties - which all boast sizable minor...

With no incumbent in the race for the first time in 48 years and a field of prosecutor candidates who have struggled to distin...

The U.S. Justice Department is eyeing new ways to control legal fees in massive bankruptcies like the one filed by cratered la...

Headed into today's election, judicial candidates across California have raised hugely varying amounts of money with some of t...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided two cases, agreed to hear another next term and declined to review a pro-plaintiff de...

The California Department of Finance has approved $300 million for the nearly 600 Los Angeles redevelopment projects recommend...

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

A challenge to California's renewable energy purchasing rules could have implications for the rest of the country. ...

Executive Vice President & General Counsel Clean Energy Experts San Diego ...

The lead attorney in the federal lawsuit that ultimately helped result in the repeal of the U.S. military's "Don't Ask, Don't ...

A group of lawyers in Los Angeles led by federal public defender Victor Acevedo have breathed new life into an effort to put m...

A state appellate court decided for the first time that trial judges can use the anti-SLAPP statute to strike a portion of a c...

Notes from the "United States - China IP Adjudication Conference" in Beijing. By Howard Miller of Girardi | Keese ...

Legal sector hiring rose a tad for the second straight month, as the U.S. suffered its lowest net number of new jobs created...

The battle line for the enforceability of some arbitration clauses is whether Mitsubishi applies to both state and fede...

A federal appellate panel tried to pick its way out of a sticky situation Friday in the only case to have successfully challen...

The 9th Circuit sided with a Native American tribe, environmentalists and salmon in an en banc ruling Friday that pushes gover...

The Big Four firm is facing a unique SEC enforcement action; though its hands may be tied by foreign law. By John C. Hueston a...

Judges and lawyers have lauded the CRASH program, which happens again this week, as a start to helping the state's busiest tri...

A lawyer for the city of Bell says it plans to take legal action against an outside accounting firm for failing to catch finan...

Determine when a reviewing court will strike down an enhanced damage award. By James Kachmar of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tob...

Oracle Corp. faces a daunting task winning significant damages or an injunction against Google Inc. on appeal, legal observe...

The big shootout over gun shows at the Alameda County fairgrounds fizzled Friday as a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals en ban...

Ex-athlete Judge Richard Kirschner now dashes between trial and half a dozen judicial committees.

PubMatic Inc., the digital media platform company for publishers, added Nadine Stocklin as its first general counsel. Stocklin...

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

Judge Gary Friedman can be tough on defendants but promotes peace in negotiations.

Creators of the blockbuster "Call of Duty" war-simulation video game series and its publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. settled...

Individual artists who created works after 1977 will soon be able to reclaim their works, and whittle away at record label rev...

Many people don't realize that California law is sufficient to protect basic assets brought into marriage. By Veronika Melamed...