Judge Chestopher L. Taylor presides over cases that affect the average person.

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

Alameda County Judge Christine Moruza took disciplinary proceedings against her to heart.

Vice President, Legal Affairs at Sunstone Hotel Investors Inc. ...

Local governments across California are looking at the climate change impacts on everything from housing developments to oil r...

With the law governing meal and rest breaks up in the air, here are some steps employers can take to protect themselves. By Im...

The state Supreme Court makes it easier for taxpayers to challenge local tax impositions. By Stanley S. Taylor of Nossaman LLP...

Most attorney suspensions and disbarments result from all to common human foibles. By Stephen J. Strauss of Karpman & Asso...

Ford uses a questionable tactic to compete against the likes of BMW and Mercedes. By Jonathan Michaels of the Michaels Law Gro...

While cash-strapped San Francisco County Superior Court's decision to close its complex litigation departments has surprised ...

San Diego Superior Court Judge Runston G. Maino's robes don't hide his personal views.

Commissioner Darlene A. White has gone from law clerk to supervising attorney to bench officer.

Hewlett-Packard Co. hired Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP partner Gregg R. Melinson to serve as vice president of global govern...

Gov. Jerry Brown's realignment proposal will go a long way to reducing the state's prison overcrowding problem but won't satis...

The city of Vallejo has cleared the final hurdle to emerging from bankruptcy.

A San Francisco federal judge disqualified Fish & Richardson P.C. from representing plaintiffs in an antitrust lawsuit bec...

A Fresno County Superior Court jury returned a $46.5 million verdict Friday against participants in a Ponzi scheme.

The month of July was generous to the legal sector, showing job growth that brought back more than the nearly 3,000 jobs lost ...

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

Dealing the second blow in a week against corporate arguments that federal statutes trump state laws, a 9th Circuit panel on ...

The city of Victorville has made good on its threat to sue the federal government for shutting a jobs program aimed at stimula...

Allies of bond wiz Jeffrey Gundlach staged an elaborate grab of client data from Trust Co. of the West, according to testimony...

A federal judge last week awarded MGA Entertainment Inc. nearly $310 million in damages and legal fees in its intellectual pro...

The ultimate test of Goodwin Liu's effectiveness on the state Supreme Court could be his ability to persuade one person - Chie...

As the next president of the National Academy of Arbitrators, a 620-member organization of her peers, Sara Adler is said to be...

The Senate Judiciary Committee delayed its Thursday vote on judicial nominees for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and Ca...

A federal judge Thursday awarded Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. nearly $310 million in damages, legal fees and cour...

The notorious "Spam King' who has tangled with Facebook Inc. for allegedly spamming the social networking site, surrenedered t...

Prominent L.A. litigator Pierce O'Donnell has agreed to spend six months in prison and plead guilty to two misdemeanor counts ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission settled insider-trading charges with a former major league baseball player and three as...