California Chief Justice Ronald M. George issued an order late Wednesday that will keep the consolidated state court litigatio...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and the London-based firm Denton Wilde Sapte formalized their merger Wednesday. ...

California voters Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, which bans tax increases for earthquake retrofitting. ...

After a particularly messy campaign, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Paul Zellerbach defeated District Attorney Rod Pach...

This year's judicial races saw many more candidates than usual taking on sitting judges, but with mixed results. ...

Atmel Corp.'s former general counsel, Mike Ross, has reached a settlement over his alleged role in stock options backdating. ...

The city of Redondo Beach can once again enforce an ordinance prohibiting day laborers from standing on streets and highways s...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that Warner Bros. Entertainment did not infringe two screenwriters' copyr...

Officials on Wednesday had to shut down public access to Sacramento Superior Court's computerized records after finding that c...

Brett Rosenblatt and Jason Crowell of Latham & Watkins write about California's program to encourage solar power system co...

Mari Frank's professional identity as a lawyer was stolen in 1996. Her latest book provides in-depth coverage on how victims c...

Employers have few satisfactory options for addressing potentially violent misconduct arising from an employee's disability, s...

Alexander Polsky of JAMS addresses the practice of "labeling" arbitrators who issue an adverse award or a series of adverse aw...

Edward Chang and Rhianna Bauer of Jones Day discuss forum selection clauses in the context of international commerce. ...

The California Supreme Court waded deeper into the battle over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts Wednesday and granted ...

Once again, U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles has been reversed and bounced from a case. ...

Do bar association opinions influence voter choices in judicial elections? The answer: hardly; maybe not at all. ...

A hospital's decision to fire nurses for allegedly posting patient information on a social networking site highlights an emplo...

The California Supreme Court waded deeper into the battle over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts Wednesday and granted ...

Kaye Scholer decided to stay in its Century City office at Sun America Plaza.

Katy Boyask's Toyota RAV4 never sped out of control. It was never in an accident, and she was never injured. Experts say peop...

Judge Kevin McCarthy is best known for settling a fight over Barry Bond's home run baseball. But he's also made tough calls in...

The Court of Appeal on Tuesday sided with Walgreens' arguments that its challenge against San Francisco's tobacco sales ban in...

Disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis hired Wilson Sonsini to defend him in government investigations arising from his ...

Kevin Cole, dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, is planning to step down in the summer of 2011 and return to th...

The Orange County Lavender Bar Association officially launches next week with an event at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Irvine ...

Lawyers analyzing the climate change impacts of their clients' projects have had little legal guidance. Bay Area air quality r...

Just as stem cells develop and change into brain or liver cells, patents for related innovations are evolving as well. ...

A 15-year legal brawl over a massive industrial complex near the U.S./Mexico border has erupted again, thanks to a series of a...

The settlement between screenwriters and the Writers Guild of America West ends a five-year legal battle involving tens of mil...