While outbreaks of disease on cruise ships are becoming more prevalent, there remains no clear precedent for determining accou...

Updating your pension and ERISA plans makes for a good New Year's resolution. By David McFarlane and Samuel Krause of Snell &a...

Advances in technology call for courts to revisit rules for electronically stored information. By Daniel B. Garrie, Jerry Levi...

Will Proposition 26 pass California's single-subject rule? By Chris Elmendorf of U.C. Davis. ...

Attorneys representing former Hewlett-Packard chairman Mark Hurd are battling to keep private a letter that eventually prompte...

A state appellate court Tuesday approved a law that requires Los Angeles County to continue paying sitting Superior Court judg...

Franklin Orfield, a retired San Diego County Superior Court judge, died Thursday of complications from a stroke. He was 89. ...

Allan Littman, a Bay Area trial litigator who was still winning landmark cases well into his senior years, died of cancer on D...

The courts laid down important decisions on environmental issues this past year, hitting everything from genetically modified ...

The first female majority on the state Supreme Court isn't expected to significantly change things. ...

With barely two weeks to go until trial, MGA Entertainment Inc. is appealing a federal judge's decision about which attorneys ...

By next fall, applicants to some prominent law schools will be able to learn more about graduates' job prospects and, within a...

A run-of-the-mill employment discrimination lawsuit in Oakland federal court has generated a post-trial controversy over wheth...

While the economy remained in the doldrums in 2010, investors continued to put their money behind clean technology such as ren...

General Counsel and Secretary for DreamWorks Animation SKG Glendale ...

Some proposals the new governor should keep in mind if he wants to put California back on a path to prosperity. By Lonny Zilbe...

Reflections on the fate of public education. By Richard M. Mosk, a justice of the California Court of Appeal. ...

Viability of class actions in consumer and employment cases remain uncertain in California. By H. Scott Leviant of Spiro Moss....

A case, now before the U.S. Supreme Court, carries broad implications for class action litigation. By Brian Kabateck and Karen...

When representing a student facing expulsion in disciplinary proceedings, every detail is crucial. By Julie Waterstone of Sout...

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San Diego County - with more American Indian reservations than any other county in the United States, each with its own custom...

Orange County will ask the U.S. Supreme Court this week to review a jury's $5 million verdict in 2007 against the county and a...

Teresa Caffese, the chief deputy in the San Francisco public defender's office, is resigning to return to the courtroom. ...

Cases spanned wide array of areas, including elder law. ...

According to the U.S. attorney's office in the Southern District of New York, from 2007 to 2009, consultant Karl Motey and oth...

Jury awards injured man $11.7 million in what's believed to be one of the biggest personal-injury verdicts in Marin County his...

The debate over cameras in courtrooms has heated up, with proponents saying courts must respond to public interest, and oppone...

2010 ended with the death of comprehensive patent reform and an inconclusive U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major patent case....

Judges in the Central District of California in 2011 will consider rules establishing a standard procedure for each patent cas...