The amount of polluted waterways in California is higher than previously estimated, according to a federal Environmental Prote...
San Francisco County Superior Court is considering eliminating long-standing orders that deal with how it manages its asbestos...
A Woodside.-based family investment entity won the fourth largest award ever handed down by a Financial Industry Regulatory Au...
Richmond City Attorney Randy Riddle has announced he will resign, effective early next year. ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Neutral accused of favoritsm cleared by judge
By Gabe Friedmann
A Las Vegas federal judge has shot down allegations that a prominent neutral engaged in fraud and misconduct while arbitrating...
Major U.S. solar company SunEdison has relocated its headquarters to Belmont from Maryland, spurred in part by the region's th...
MGA Entertainment Inc. is working out a settlement with O'Melveny & Myers LLP, which sued the toymaker for allegedly refus...
After one and a half weeks of trial, South San Francisco-based Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. dropped a lawsuit against its drug de...
California Courts of Appeal
Panel skeptical of firm's bid to collect attorney fees from former clerk
By Laura Ernden
A state appellate court seemed sympathetic Wednesday to a lawyer who was hit with a $120,000 attorney fee bill after losing a ...
James E. Towery, the State Bar's former top discipline prosecutor, has joined San Jose real estate firm Rossi, Hamerslough, Re...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court mulls when strip searches are reasonable
By Robert Iafolla
In a case pitting human dignity against safety and security, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared willing Wednesday to require that...
The California attorney general's office is looking to lay off more than 200 special agents, employee union officials said - a...
Colorado-based Phenix Salon Suites signed three leases in Southern California totaling $2.8 million at Encinitas Marketplace i...
Labor/Employment
Employers looking up job candidates online carry risk
By Brian Sumersn
Although employers generally have the power to hire, and not hire, whomever they please, technology is making the process tric...
A reader responds to "Sheriff's watchdog has eyes elsewhere," (Oct. 5). ...
Labor/Employment
Department of Fair Employment and Housing’s new procedural regulations
By Sharon Liangn
The new rules govern how the agency accepts and processes complaints of unlawful discrimination, harassment and retaliation un...
Public Interest
State bar launches campaign for legal services donations
By Don De Benedictis
The State Bar and the Legal Aid Association of California on Tuesday formally launched a project to raise awareness and donati...
A businessman whom critics labeled the Bernie Madoff of Beverly Hills was sentenced Tuesday to 7 years in federal prison for s...
A federal judge tentatively dismissed a $3 billion antitrust suit in which Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. accused M...
Perspective
Just don’t do it: Prosecutors should avoid partnering with plaintiffs’ attorneys
By Genevieve Knollen
Public prosecutors and plaintiffs' attorneys have different motivations, making these partnerships troublesome. By Kim Stone o...
A roundup of cases granted or denied for review by the U.S. Supreme Court ...
A team of lawyers from Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP representing the California Science Center has officially broken a deal ...
Until governance problems over our trial courts are resolved, judges cannot speak with one voice. By Steve White of Sacramento...
Environmental and public health groups sued the Obama administration Tuesday - a month after his office reversed itself and re...
Surveys regularly show that most Californians feel ill-prepared to vote on initiative proposals. By Glenn C. Smith of Californ...
U.S. Supreme Court
High court leans in favor of arbitration once again
By Robert Iafolla
Consistent with its pattern of rulings supporting arbitration, the U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to say a law guar...
A legal malpractice lawsuit filed in Los Angeles Superior Court against Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld claims the firm is ...
Senior Circuit Judge Robert Boochever of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, a former chief justice of the Alaska Supreme C...
Plaintiffs' lawyers steering the litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over alleged unintended acceleration defects scored two...
Cinemark Theaters Inc. has petitioned the California Supreme Court after a 2nd District appellate panel found in favor of inde...