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...

Deepa Badrinarayana of Chapman University School of Law asks whether nations can find common ground on climate change negotiat...

Diane DeFelice of Brownstein Hyatt and Charles Pomeroy of McKenna Long discuss the implementation of SB 375's goal to decrease...

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted former KB Home chief executive Bruce Karatz of attempting to cover up a scheme to backda...

Proposed new federal regulations may increase costs associated with startup ventures and reduce the number of new businesses c...

The University of Southern California has quietly replaced elite law firm Latham & Watkins as legal counsel on a multi-bil...

Judge Nancy Wieben Stock has always taken a leadership role in every task before her.

Kristy S. Watts used to be a bookkeeper for world-famous romance novelist Danielle Steel. But starting in June, she'll be a pr...

New York-based Pfizer Inc. lost a bid to have a San Francisco federal judge impose sanctions against Joseph M. Alioto Sr., a w...

Eighty Mexican prosecutors and agents from Baja California are attending two days of classes north of the border as part of an...

Legislation that would require independent yearly audits of how California's trial courts and the central Administrative Offic...

A senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was found guilty Tuesday of taking bribes from illegal immigrants i...

As more details emerge about a crime lab employee's drug thefts and other criminal acts, political analysts say the scandal is...

Amway distributors who contend the big direct sales company is really a fraudulent pyramid scheme got a boost Tuesday from a 9...

For the second time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a statute on free speech grounds Tuesday when it held that a...

A San Diego law school professor is rallying her students - both foreign and native-born - to tap the potential of emerging gl...

Two Los Angeles law firms that helped Bob and Harvey Weinstein walk away from Miramax, the independent studio the brothers bui...

John Poyner, President of the Institute for the Advancement of Criminal Justice and Colusa County DA, says the AEDPA minimizes...

Mark Russakow of Russakow | Ryan | Johnson examines the use of temporary restraining orders by companies to knock the new comp...

A person's privacy right in his or her identity and contact information, in most cases, is far outweighed by the right in liti...

Ed Poll's new book, "Growing Your Law Practice in Tough Times," discusses how law firms can achieve greater success after the ...

Malcolm Sher explains the intricacies and considerations of resolving partition action disputes. ...

The Charles Schwab Corp. will pay $200 million to resolve a portion of a federal lawsuit in which a class of investors claim t...

A Silicon Valley technology company is running into one roadblock after another trying to prove that its former lawyers at Orr...

Judges in the Central District of California, who have come under fire for the way they handle their large patent docket, will...

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