Health-insurance laws dictated by state legislators reached a total of 2,156 separate mandates nationwide this year, increasin...

The hotel magnate famous for booting TV contestants off his reality show has cleaned house of two different law firms represen...

The Northern District has a new bankruptcy judge, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals announced Wednesday. ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued an emergency stay of a trial judge's decision blocking enforcement of "don't ask,...

The broad applicability of anti-SLAPP motions extends to employment cases, yet they are rarely utilized. By Maria Roberts and ...

The newly codified economic substance doctrine may change the way tax and business planners do business. By Bruce Givner and O...

Deborah Kemper, President of Executives of California Lawyers' Associations, comments on 'Bar President Emphasizes Clients Fir...

Facebook Inc. has filed three new complaints against defendants accused of spamming the social networking site, raising the st...

In response to a recent study finding that California prosecutors often go unpunished for serious courtroom misconduct, the St...

Lawyers, who make their living through arranging words, should heed the linguistic lessons of television journalist Edwin Newm...

The latest real estate transactions by California attorneys.

In-house legal departments succeeded at cutting overall spending during the height of the recession - in most cases at the exp...

It wasn't long ago that console-based video games were taking the entertainment world by storm. Now, mobile gaming is changing...

One need look no further than the massive, multidistrict case against Toyota Motor Corp. to see how complex litigation is driv...

The San Diego City Council unanimously approved an ordinance on Monday ensuring that city contractors provide domestic partner...

A San Francisco Superior Court judge ordered California wildlife officials Tuesday to reconsider their refusal to give endange...

Citing an article claiming that Zynga Game Network Inc. shared personal information about Facebook users who play its online g...

Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco got it right when he found Proposition 8 unconstitutional, foes of...

Gun show operators challenging an Alameda County law that bans guns on county property made another appearance before the 9th ...

Michael Nava, the California Supreme Court staff attorney hoping to unseat a San Francisco County Superior Court judge next mo...

Life as a writer is markedly different from life as a lawyer. By Daniel A. Olivas of the California Department of Justice. ...

Staying informed about victims' rights benefits both the victims and the criminal justice system. By Los Angeles attorney Anto...

Deporting people who commit acts of domestic violence creates a worse situation for victims. By Erin Tinoco of the Anaheim Fam...

Inhibiting insurance companies' use of a release as a settlement device goes against public policy. By Deborah L. Stein of Sim...

State ethics boards are split on how attorneys should treat inadvertently disclosed "metadata," if inadvertently disclosed as ...

Lawyers would be wise to adopt gross fee contracts when dealing with their clients. ...

Jennifer Friedman comments on 'Brown Faces Scrutiny for Judicial Appointments.' ...

Los Angeles lawyer-mediator Laurel Kaufer said she was immediately hooked when she received a letter from an inmate at Valley ...

The future of a federal judge's ruling blocking enforcement of "don't ask, don't tell" may be up in the air with stay requests...