Lawyers who focus on sustainable construction are closely watching an unprecedented New York federal court lawsuit filed this ...
Gordon & Rees is taking legal action against two former clients the firm says owe it more than $100,000 in unpaid bills. ...
Court fees are increasing statewide to avoid more court closures. ...
Construction magnate Ronald Tutor has lost a bid to foreclose on a large library of films involved in a hotly watched bankrupt...
Federal prosecutors have secured another guilty plea in the criminal antitrust investigation into price fixing in the thin-fil...
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced a Los Angeles man to serve 21 months in prison and pay restitution for recruiting homeles...
Greenberg Traurig announced Wednesday it has scooped up two patent litigation partners from Weil, Gotshal & Manges in Redw...
The Fair Political Practices Commission has dismissed a complaint by Democratic Attorney General candidate Kamala Harris alleg...
In one of the largest trademark infringement verdicts of the year, a Los Angeles federal jury has awarded $60 million to a Ven...
BrightSource Energy broke ground on one of the first large-scale solar projects to be approved in California in decades and an...
Four former city of San Diego officials are poised to go down in history as the first municipal officials to pay financial pen...
The criminal trial of a man who claims to be God and whom prosecutors allege made death threats against two sitting federal ju...
A Los Angeles federal judge sided with the trucking industry late Tuesday in a battle over the Port of Los Angeles' clean truc...
Famous surfer Jeff Clark, known for discovering the big-wave surfing spot Mavericks, has again found himself in rough legal wa...
When it comes to discipline, targeting students of color is an ongoing problem with lasting consequences. By Jory Steele of th...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice Delayed: The Urgent Need to Fill Federal Judicial Vacancies
By Alexander Phersonn
It's time to put aside party affiliations and help expedite the appointment and approval of qualified candidates. By William H...
Real Estate/Development
Why Isn't the Government Taking Its Own Good Advice?
By Seena Nikravann
Discipline of land-use regulators who abuse the rights of property owners should begin on U.S. soil before venturing abroad. B...
Insurance
The California Marijuana Initiative:Hashing Out Some Insurance Issues
By Alexander Phersonn
Proposition 19 creates a number of thorny insurance-related issues. By Clifford E. Hirsch and Jodi Lambert of Hirsch, Closson,...
Is there a lack of intellectual diversity among our nation's faculty members? By Timothy A. Canova of Chapman University Schoo...
In the first major test of her ability to lead the court system, chief justice nominee Tani Cantil-Sakauye will try to sell co...
A Los Angeles plaintiffs firm has filed a class action complaint against Wells Fargo Bank, alleging the lender flouted its obl...
Lawyers from Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy advised the lenders in a $650 million deal to finance the construction of a 7...
Interpreters who aid non-English-speaking workers in workers comp cases are themselves struggling to collect payment for their...
Alongside state attorneys general from Oregon and Illinois, California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced a $3.3 m...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Human Rights Case Goes to Mediation
By Fiona Smith
An en banc panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals declined to make a final decision in a marathon legal battle over allege...
A state appellate court has allowed the California Energy Commission to start doling out $33 million in federal energy efficie...
A Los Angeles federal judge has sided with the trucking industry in a battle over the Port of Los Angeles' clean truck program...
A subsidiary of the global pharmaceutical giant GlaxoSmithKline has agreed to plead guilty to charges relating to the manufact...
A study released Monday confirms how much more active corporate counsel have become over the last decade in managing their rel...
An East Coast biotechnology firm is suing three California companies for patent infringement related to DNA sequencing technol...