Patricia Cain of Santa Clara University says a uniform rule for same-sex unions is needed as state action has created a legal ...

Gary Paul of Water, Kraus & Paul comments on asbestos litigation in California.

California could soon create a new type of corporate entity that includes social good in its mandate if a 10-attorney working ...

Lawyers say ADR Services neutral Robert Letteau has the quality that makes a mediator shine: He not only listens, but can pers...

Chris Holm of Milbank Tweed explains the benefits and risks for marking "patented" on products as well as the consequences of ...

Northern California-based Fenwick & West lawyers helped privately held Virgin America secure $68.4 million in debt financi...

Repercussions form a $2.2 billion software piracy lawsuit against the Chinese government hit close to home for the lawyers at ...

More than a dozen legal service organizations - many in rural areas of the state - have received a financial boost from the Ca...

Professor Donna M. Ryu of UC Hastings College of the Law will take the bench in the Oakland federal courthouse on March 1.

The Stanford Institute for Economic Policy at Stanford University is hosting a public workshop today to discuss issues involve...

A state appellate court reinstated a lawsuit Wednesday brought against a prominent San Francisco employment lawyer by one of h...

The 9th U.S. Circuit of Appeals reversed an immigration court and found whistle blowing against government corruption is groun...

A Ninth Circuit appeals panel played its cards close to the vest Wednesday, not giving any clear signs during oral arguments w...

Neither side scored a decisive touchdown Wednesday when the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether the National Footb...

Movie studio Lionsgate Entertainment has emerged as the leading bidder to take over the rights to the Terminator franchise wit...

"Tonight Show" host Conan O'Brien has hired litigator Patty Glaser to represent him in negotiations with NBC following the net...

Sue Burrell of the Youth Law Center explains the serious ramifications of juvenile adjudications and why defense attorneys nee...

A Contra Costa County Superior Court judge has ruled that Mount Diablo Unified School District owes more than $2.3 million to ...

Split along ideological lines, the U.S. Supreme Court prevented the high-profile Proposition 8 trial in San Francisco from bei...

Laurie Juengert of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost discusses legislation to increase school accountability and efforts to provid...

Consumers and gemologists nationwide have accused Macy's, the nation's No. 1 department store chain, of knowingly selling fake...

Peter Gerber and his wife, Miriam are among at least 550 plaintiffs who have sued the top manufacturers of the MRI dyes for al...

The Mesereau Community Legal Foundation opened its new Mesereau Free Legal Clinic on Saturday at the New Direction Christian C...

Jeremiah Ho of Whittier Law School analyzes Kairy v. SuperShuttle International and its impact on driver lawsuits and p...

When attorney Samuel Jefferson Frazier's home office near Ramona burned down in 2007, he moved to Arizona but kept on practici...

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On Tuesday, three federal judges, who had previously ruled in August that overcrowding was causing poor conditions in prison m...

All new buildings in the state will soon have to be easy on the environment, thanks to passage of a major initiative of Gov. A...

Just one day after creating an exploratory committee, Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley announced Tuesday that...

Riverside County officials decided Tuesday to offer early retirement to 78 Superior Court employees to attempt to avoid layoff...