Upset over plans to build a community for 34,000 people in rural Riverside County, environmental groups filed two lawsuits Thu...

Legal scholars from across the country will discuss how climate change matters to law and how law can address climate change t...

Max Factor III of PMA and Alice Graham of Graham Law Corp. examine recent cases that carve a judicially created exception to m...

With wage and hour class action lawsuits increasing every year, Julie Vogelzang of Duane Morries advises employers on how to m...

The debate over who should be Justice John Paul Stevens' successor fails to take into account how our brains actually make dec...

Tim Reuben of Reuben Raucher & Blum asks whether "ethical screens" really work to avoid vicarious disqualification when la...

Keith Bishop of Allen Matkins says use of the Internet to trade private shares may carry significant consequences for all thos...

Steven Rosenberg makes sure to take feelings into account when mediating cases. He compares the process to curling, where he t...

The California Supreme Court granted review Thursday on a case that could affect virtually every discrimination and retaliatio...

Law firms across California have reaped the benefits of the stimulus package, helping to shepherd hundreds of projects through...

A Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy who handcuffed a public defender and forced her into a Downey courtroom for a hearing ac...

Lawyers have struck a $600 million settlement agreement in a federal shareholder class action lawsuit against Countrywide Fina...

Video rental company Redbox dropped its two remaining antitrust lawsuits Thursday against two major studios over their month-l...

It was a heady morning at Buchalter Nemer’s downtown Los Angeles office, where nearly 200 attorneys and staff members g...

Paper or plastic? The California Supreme Court revealed on Earth Day that it's wading into the controversy over which grocery ...

In a blow to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state's request to consolidate an...

The state Attorney General's Office is threatening to sue San Bernardino County for refusing to waive attorney-client privileg...

After 17 years of legal battles over Chevron Corp.'s responsibility to clean up oil contamination in Ecuador's rainforest, an ...

Alicia Villarreal, a Morgan Lewis litigation partner, was appointed regional representative for Secretary of Labor Hilda L. So...

The manager and president of a San Diego catering company have been indicted on 16 counts of hiring unauthorized workers. ...

The former chief financial officer of San Francisco software company Embarcadero Technologies Inc. has agreed to settle civil ...

Los Angeles-based Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith hired 16 lawyers to its New York office from Wilson, Elser, Moskowtiz, E...

California lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advised San Francisco-based Visa Inc. in its acquisition of C...

Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional adminstrator, has vowed to improve how the agency helps poor c...

In a ruling that is likely to be a boon for some plaintiffs' lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded Wednesday that debt col...

In a case of keen interest to public interest lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that federal judges can only awar...

Class action ping-pong in which cases rebound endlessly between state and federal courts is against the rules, a 9th U.S. Circ...

Chemical regulation is about to change in California with the Department of Toxic Substances Control's Safer Alternative Rule,...

In celebration of Earth Day, while we point with pride and view with alarm, we should recognize that choices about how to pro...

California's climate change policy is evolving quickly and local governments should develop greenhouse gas reduction plans now...