The American Bar Association will honor Kenneth Babcock, who heads the Orange County-based Public Law Center, at its upcoming ...

James A. Ardaiz, the administrative presiding justice of the 5th District Court of Appeal whose artistic vision led to the lim...

Departing U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen Hewitt has signed on as a partner in the San Diego offic...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that companies being held liable for groundwater contamination in the San Gabriel ...

Lawyers representing Toyota Motor Corp. have employed a tough-as-nails discovery strategy in the past that has drawn fines, sa...

Scores of lawsuits against British Petroleum and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have already been fi...

A terminated employee proceeds to trial on claims that her employer interfered and retaliated against her right to take medica...

Damon Rubin says a recent California Supreme Court case will guide attorneys and courts in applying the commercial speech exem...

Tim Tosta of Luce Forward reflects on the world of a lawyer, which is at times, shockingly brutal. ...

In "The War on Terror and the Laws of War," six legal scholars with experience as military officers apply their unique experti...

A San Francisco civil attorney facing a murder charge in Riverside County is asking the California Supreme Court to dismiss hi...

California's dysfunctional death penalty system took center stage at the California Supreme Court this week, with the justices...

San Diego County family law judge Sim von Kalinowski followed his father into the legal profession but chose a different pract...

Landlord Douglas Emmett Inc. secured a law firm and a legal consulting company for its 10-story office building at 8383 Wilshi...

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Patricia A. Pinto, a lawyer at the Orange County Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, helps homeowners get mortgage loan modificati...

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris has created a new unit to examine the potential consequences reports of law e...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's intervention helped fuel settlements that will allow a dozen disabled tenants to remain in their ...

Northern California partner David Cheng is the new chair of Nixon Peabody's 15-attorney China practice, the firm announced Tue...

Attorneys representing California high-technology and biotechnology companies are anxious to see whether new revisions to Chin...

As China continues to amass enormous wealth, power and influence in the global economy, California-based law firms have been f...

China presents an almost-perfect storm of factors that make complying with U.S. anti-corruption laws difficult, experts say. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined to get its hands dirty Tuesday over whether a local regulation can stop the City of Los Angele...

A former chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit is taking senior status at the end of the month, cre...

The jobs of up to 35 child dependency lawyers are hanging in the balance, as San Diego County Public Defender Henry C. Coker m...

Riverside Courts Examine Security After Juror Hit Riverside court officials are beefing up jury security in the wake of an in...

After more than 30 years of public service, 5th District Court of Appeal Presiding Justice James A. Ardaiz is preparing to ret...

When labor agreement disputes arise, union reps commonly rely on the existence of a "past practice." John McLachlan of Fisher...

James Wongexplains the advantages of doing business in Hong Kong or Singapore, the top two choices for setting up shop in the ...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George has named nine members to the Judicial Council, the group that sets policy for the state's cour...