Giving the unemployed protected class status will cause more problems than it solves. By Janice P. Brown and Suzanne K. Roten ...

When the Riverside district attorney's office caught wind that Mowbray's Tree Service Inc. was making fraudulent workers' comp...

A Riverside litigator sued his former Van Nuys-based workers' compensation defense firm on Friday, claiming it enforced a mini...

Law schools are under fire for their students' employment rates nine months after graduation, but some people who struggle in ...

The battles over government seizure of domain names have taken different turns in two separate cases.

A two-year study measuring how long it takes judges to handle various types of court cases has identified a need for 345 new j...

Mediation could be the best environment for environmental law claims. By Cary Lowe of the National Conflict Resolution Center

Four years after the television writers settled a strike against entertainment studios, the Writers Guild of America, West is ...

Welcome to the new reality of family law in California. By Fred Silberberg of Silberberg & Ross

Citing unspecified personal reasons, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carl J. West has announced his early retirement f...

Today is the last day on the job for at least 5 percent of the State Bar's employees, who either have accepted a buyout or are...

Renewable energy projects on Native American tribal lands may begin accelerating soon, thanks to new rules proposed by the Uni...

A federal indictment accuses a former corporate partner at Nixon Peabody of altering documents to conceal misconduct by a clie...

The 9th Circuit speaks out about securities class certification. By William F. Sullivan, Peter Y. Cho and Timothy D. Reynolds ...

For too long, legal writing has been riddled with redundancies. By Hirbod Rashidi of the University of California, Riverside

For the eighth year running, divorce lawyer Stacy D. Phillips invited 200 women leaders from the legal, financial, nonprofit, ...

Two health care systems have settled allegations they overcharged Medicare for services.

California's highly controversial high-speed rail line is expected to generate years of work for land use lawyers, and it's al...

Longtime San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Tomar Mason has announced her retirement after 21 years on the bench.

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP is the most recent outfit that's announced plans to enter the economic and political...

MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company has agreed to buy a 550-megawatt solar farm in San Luis Obispo County from Arizona-based s...

Academic values and student welfare are no longer priorities for the BCS bowl system. By Rodney K. Smith of Thomas Jefferson S...

As history proves, child labor laws are necessary to protect our kids and our future. By Joseph Sorrentino

A San Francisco federal judge continues to take a hard look at the damages report prepared by Oracle Corp.

The U.S. Government has leased a 248,882-square-foot office complex in San Diego.

A controversial deal dividing water rights to the Colorado River among Southern California users might be preserved, thanks to...

Sacramento bar exam takers had the misfortune of sitting in a room adjacent to the National Youth Gathering of the United Met...

A federal indictment accuses a former corporate partner at Nixon Peabody of altering documents to conceal misconduct by a clie...

In a case that could rock the growing personalized medicine industry, the U.S. Supreme Court weighed Wednesday whether a San D...

Officials said a charter would help the city skirt legal controversy that's hampered the city's effort to outsource more than ...