Law firms and corporations are expected to hire more lawyers and legal staff in the first quarter of 2012, with the largest gr...

The Delaware Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that a letter accusing then-HP Chairman Mark V. Hurd of sexual harassment should ...

California's pursuit of a clean energy-powered future has drawn praise, but the cost of its ambitions has been a constant com...

State judicial leaders announced Thursday that they are halting negotiations to use money from a private foundation to roll ou...

Copyright clawbacks are about to kick in for several recording artists of the 1970s, but the music industry's devastated label...

The U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday reinstated an immigrant couple's lawsuit that accuses Countrywide Bank of vi...

In an effort to clear up confusion about judicial review of parole decisions, the state Supreme Court on Thursday chided lower...

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction to block impending budget cuts that would have slashed Medi-Cal reimbursem...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday ruled against insurance adjusters seeking unpaid overtime, but didn't issue the broad ruli...

Once in a while you get answers in the unlikeliest of places. By David Ross, Los Angeles alternative public defender

In a blow to California's efforts to fight climate change, a Fresno federal judge ruled Thursday that a law cutting greenhouse...

Declaring a mistrial due to juror misconduct, a judge on Wednesday scuttled a potential $3 million jury verdict against the pr...

Telephone and internet users attacking the federal government's warrantless eavesdropping program that followed the Sept. 11, ...

Thursday's state Supreme Court decision means that unless state lawmakers take immediate action, California's roughly 400 muni...

After two years of bruising litigation, Trust Co. of the West and the bond company’s former chief investment officer have rea...

At the National Labor Relations Board, 2011 was the year the federal agency embraced social media.

For weeks this summer, Barbara Cockerham carried her layoff notice around in her purse, a solemn reminder, she says, to "kick ...

A financier of the 2007 film "No Country for Old Men" is on the hook for part of a $15 million blunder the studio made in its ...

With analysts warning of an impending spike in municipal bankruptcies, a new law taking effect this year will try to blunt the...

This year may have marked the beginning of a slow and steady upswing as Hollywood studios and their deal-making lawyers discov...

Best Best & Krieger LLP, a 200-lawyer civil firm, leased 35,000 square feet in a new office tower under construction in Ri...

It's up to California judges - not an arbitrator - to determine whether defendants have waived their right to arbitration, a s...

This year's trade secret cases revealed that information could be a company's top asset. By Robyn C. Crowther of Caldwell Lesl...

Big law firms looking for marriage partners are now waiting until the fourth quarter before announcing their nuptials as a wa...

In her first week on the job last January, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye accepted the resignation of a colleague and was c...

A federal judge has awarded nearly $18 million in damages to the family of a San Diego woman who was killed with her two daug...

In 2012, be part of the solution - volunteer your time. By Amy Fitzpatrick of the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc.

By staging a mock trial, judge and lawyers volunteer in after-school program for middle school students at risk of dropping ou...

Riverside County's presiding judge is launching a new program in which she will carve out several days a month from her admini...

As more couples opt to live together before marriage, more are seeking contracts to define their legal rights in case they bre...