Thwarted for four years from carrying out executions, Attorney General Jerry Brown is fighting furiously to proceed with the l...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday appointed California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet to the San Francisco County Su...

Vaughn Walker, Chief Judge of the Northern District, Announces Retirement ...

Food companies are wise to manage the legal risk of marketing misleading nutritional labels, recent litigation provides cautio...

Can't decide on a traditional Individual Retirement Arrangement or a Roth IRA? Here are some factors to consider, by Boyd D. H...

Men are filing more sexual harassment claims. There are steps to take to avoid liability, by Brianne L. Marriott of Liebert Ca...

Employers need to keep a close eye on their policies for appropriate use of workplace technology, by Robert D. Brownstone and ...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George prides himself on the Supreme Court's 5 percent dissent rate. Can his successor, Justice Tani C...

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court banned some class actions from proceeding in arbitration, mass confusion reigns. ...

Stuart Gasner of Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco carved the waters of Hawaii Saturday during the Hawaii Bar Association’...

Corporate defendants who have been hit with a wave of lawsuits for marking products with false patent numbers have been unabl...

Orange County Superior Court jury on Monday convicted a second-time drunken driver of killing an up-and-coming Angels pitcher ...

In what lawyers say could be the largest single award against a trustee in California history, the 2nd District Court of Appea...

One year after a jury convicted three lawyers and two interpreters of filing hundreds of false asylum claims, a federal judge ...

On Saturday, Ronald M. George returned to some familiar themes in his final speech to the State Bar convention as chief justic...

Trial lawyer Tom Girardi staged a farewell party for Chief Justice Ronald M. George Saturday night that featured crooner Paul ...

Lawmakers' foot-dragging on the state budget threatens a carefully crafted deal to partly plug a $400 million gap in court fun...

A spokesman for San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe confirmed Tuesday that the firm is contemplating a merg...

General Counsel of Peralta Community College District Oakland ...

A judge awarded a production company that developed game show "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" $50 million in interest on a $27...

A Nigerian lawsuit against Chevron Corp. shows why the judiciaries in third world countries must begin standing up to foreign ...

Fear of irrevocable trusts can cost clients important benefits in estate tax and asset protection planning, by Bruce Givner an...

Accused of leaking military secrets, Bradley Manning should be honored not condemned, by Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson Sch...

H. David Nahai, who headed the Los Angeles Department of Water & Power, will expand the energy, water and real estate prac...

One instance of alleged customer data theft by an employee of a major financial institution profoundly changes the face of int...

After a Marin County judge refused to halt the scheduled execution Wednesday of Albert Greenwood Brown Jr., Gov. Arnold Schwar...

Justice Terence L. Bruiniers of the 1st District Court of Appeal comments on "Redact Online Court Records to Better Protect Co...

Executions may be resuming now that a state appellate court, last week, removed one of the few remaining roadblocks, by Harvey...

Being raised by educators and serving a stint with the LAUSD helped Los Angeles County Judge Stephanie M. Bowick to guide deli...

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