Whether it's mixed-use projects near Bay Area Rapid Transit stations or high-density housing straddling rail hubs in Southern ...

A South Lake Tahoe lawyer will be disbarred after being convicted in Canada of a dozen counts in connection with sexual assaul...

John C. Rayburn Jr., a former federal prosecutor and magistrate judge whose faith guided him in and out of the courtroom, will...

In the months following layoffs of 29 Superior Court reporters in September, attorneys have felt their absence. ...

The San Francisco Law Library is having a book sale on May 19 to shed inventory from its Financial District branch, which clos...

The first day of attorneys being required to hire their own court reporters for civil trials in Los Angeles went off with some...

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned why the State Bar thinks an undocumented immigrant should be admitted to pract...

The Chamber of Commerce and plaintiff-side employment lawyers are once again disagreeing over legislation. The chamber release...

Outside lawyers at Steptoe & Johnson LLP were not acting as government agents during an internal bribery investigation of ...

Oracle Corp. will have to wait for a retrial against Google Inc. in order to have a chance at winning hundreds of millions of ...

Judge William Stewart's interest in the law was sparked by a pair of books from the library.

Swimmer Michael Phelps, gymnast Kerri Strug and track and field star Carl Lewis gained celebrity status, thanks to the Olympic...

Justice Steven Suzukawa had to learn civil quickly.

A new tort is coming to a California court near you. By Chuck Teixeira ...

An advocacy group representing law enforcement and victims' rights positions wants to remove an initiative seeking to abolish ...

John C. Rayburn Jr., a former assistant U.S. attorney in Los Angeles and Santa Ana who also served as a magistrate judge in th...

Tupac's recent appearance shed light on another type of artist. By Zia Modabber of Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP ...

A disbarred attorney pleaded guilty Monday to three counts of felony grand theft in relation to illegal payments he took from ...

Apple Inc. will get another chance to block the sale of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. 's tablet computer because an appeals co...

A Downey-based health care company will pay $654,082 to 108 current and former nurses to settle claims it violated the Fair La...

Miller Law Group PC, one of the state's largest women-owned labor and employment groups, has opened a Los Angeles office, hiri...

The U.S. Supreme Court dealt family farmers in California a blow by ruling Monday that they're responsible for paying the capi...

Beginning today, Los Angeles County Superior Court no longer will provide stenographic court reporters for civil trials in an ...

What happens to the contents of a safety deposit box when the owner is gone? By Mark J. Phillips of Goldfarb, Sturman & A...

Intellectual Ventures LLC and Nvidia Corp. announced Monday they had partnered to purchase approximately 500 mobile technology...

The Obama administration nominated Los Angeles-based U.S. Magistrate Judge Fernando M. Olguin on Monday to be a federal judge ...

Silicon Valley-based network traffic management company Gigamon Systems LLC has appointed its first general counsel, the compa...

Don't take "private" arbitrations for granted: confidentiality is not required by law. By Hon. Robert A. Baines (Ret.) of JAMS...

Bruce Bennett, a prized get when Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP set about luring rainmakers to the law firm with outsized compensatio...

Gov. Jerry Brown called for cutting the judiciary's budget by $544 million, a worst-case scenario for the branch that if enact...