Superior Court Judge Marjorie Koller gets satisfaction from impacting the lives of many.

Gilchrist & Rutter signed a 10-year lease renewal for its beachside, Santa Monica office.

Famed litigator James Brosnahan won a defense verdict for a San Diego-based company that makes non-lethal weapons and its chai...

A pending Supreme Court case could either lead to greater clarity or more confusion for companies and counsel. By Jared L. Kop...

A look at the possible impact of one of the largest employment class actions in history. By Brian S. Kabateck and Ronald Karz ...

The City of San Francisco has reached a $4.25 million tentative settlement with Office Depot after the company grossly overcha...

It's up to a jury to decide whether criminal defense attorney Robert L. Shapiro should refund $1 million he was paid by music ...

As the Department of Justice looks to expand its anti-piracy toolbox with help from Congress, Los Angeles prosecutors are alre...

A federal judge ruled Tuesday that the science underpinning water restrictions in the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delta aimed...

California was named the nation's No. 2 "judicial hellhole" by the pro-business American Tort Reform Association. ...

Recording giant Universal Music Group and two of its subsidiaries filed a petition for writ of certiorari with the U.S. Suprem...

An art gallery dealer accused of selling fake Joan Miró prints took the stand in his own defense Tuesday, telling jurors he h...

The chances of the $2.3 billion sale of 11 state-owned office complexes to private investors - a deal championed by Gov. Arnol...

An appellate panel appeared poised this week to reverse rulings by an earlier panel and a district court that found a Muslim w...

The state Commission on Judicial Performance publicly admonished two judges on Tuesday, one for inappropriate and crude behavi...

A pilot program designed to improve the expertise of federal judges handling patent infringement lawsuits has been approved by...

A bid by the state's building industry to overturn unprecedented new air quality guidelines in the Bay Area is being closely w...

A judge will allow Dole Food Co., to engage in party-to-party settlements with Honduran banana farm workers who allege they we...

Just south of the border in Baja Mexico, winds coming off the Pacific Ocean hit the dry desert air, sending strong gusts over ...

What indemnification issues arise when a customer combines the use of an item with other products? By Jane Song and Todd Schne...

Why it is important to understand the personality type of your technical witness. By Brent Yamashita of DLA Piper. ...

A Newport Beach lawyer who hears property tax appeals for Orange County was arrested Monday for allegedly stealing $117,000 fr...

Environmentalists received another setback in their quest to halt construction of a long-planned water desalination plant in C...

The 6th District Court of Appeal, on Monday temporarily halted Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's sale of 11 state office properties...

General Counsel for AIDS Healthcare Foundation ...

A federal judge ruled that the county of San Diego's policy that requires residents to prove "good cause" to carry concealed ...

Startups don't have a lot of cash to pay lawyers, but they need a lot of advice - legal and otherwise. That's why some law fir...

Cooley's mergers and acquisitions group represented the sale of two separate companies for a combined value of more than $3 bi...

The U.S. Supreme Court split 4-4 in a case Monday that could have clarified whether copyrighted goods made overseas and acquir...

Court documents recently made public suggest prominent life sciences attorney Jonathan Dickstein and his wife went to great le...