Los Angeles County Judge Jon Robert Takasugi's father was a legendary state and federal court judge after whom the son tries t...

The family of a mentally-ill woman who went missing after she was released from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 filed a sec...

A Cuban national who pretended to be an attorney in an elaborate scheme to bill other immigrants for his purported legal servi...

San Francisco antitrust attorney Joseph M. Alioto Tuesday filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court seeking to block the ...

A San Francisco federal judge dismissed the price fixing claims of AT&T Mobility, Motorola and Nokia Corp., granting a mot...

Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors Inc. raised more than $226 million in its initial public offering Tuesday, and saw its shares ris...

A salmon fisherman traumatized when a cargo ship nearly struck his boat in dense fog off Point Reyes in 2007 can proceed with ...

A Redwood City-based biotechnology company is striking deals with major pharmaceutical companies, giving its partners the opti...

San Jose-based Veraz Networks, Inc., has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit with the SEC, an apparent preemptive strik...

Will Hoffman discusses three trends that have gained judicial prominence in the past year since California's Electronic Discov...

The 9th Circuit has paved the way for thousands of miles of migratory flyways used by endangered birds to become protected cri...

Kirk Pasich of Dickstein Shapiro provides insight on what triggers an insurer's duty to defend and what limits apply. ...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faced tough questioning Tuesday over her role opposing the federal "don't ask, don't te...

As Judge Vaughn R. Walker readies his opinion on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban, the plaintiffs c...

The U.S. Supreme Court passed on an opportunity to remake patent law Monday, with a cautious opinion that largely keeps the st...

Los Angeles County Judge Gregg Marcus' love of fast cars is only surpassed by his attention to courtroom fairness, lawyers say.

Another win for the city of San Diego and another loss for the San Diego City Employees' Retirement System. ...

Objections to Heller Ehrman's proposed liquidation plan and ongoing settlement negotiations among stakeholders have caused the...

More fireworks are going off after an environmental group filed suit to stop the annual pyrotechnics display at La Jolla Cove ...

A former Republican candidate for Congress tied to a letter that threatened Latino voters with deportation is accusing Rep. Lo...

A California courts program to aid self-represented litigants by pairing them with trained university students will expand, th...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday decided to intervene in a case challenging an Arizona law requiring employers to check on the im...

The recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling, narrowing the scope of the so-called honest services fraud statute, is giving hope to so...

Among the flurry of U.S. Supreme Court decisions Monday, the court handed a conclusive win to the city of San Francisco by den...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday to let a 2002 landmark clergy abuse case go forward against the Vatican is expected t...

A U.S. Dept of Labor study found that about 30 percent of businesses misclassify workers, which may result in increasing level...

The state Supreme Court sheds light on the employment relationship between produce merchants, growers and farm laborers, write...

A recent court decision fights against liability insurers and large self-insured corporations attempting to take benefits away...

Attorneys from the Vietnamese American Bar Association of Northern California arrived in the Gulf region late last week to pro...