Federal judges in the Northern district of California have chosen assistant U.S. attorney Laurel D. Beeler to become the distr...

Gordon Erspamer of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Manatt Phelps and Phillips's Holocaust Survivors Justiece Netw...

When an insurer fails to comply with the requirements of the Fair Claims Settlement Practices Act, it may not be able to asser...

Mediator Joseph J. Carson started out as a paperboy, and also worked as a plumber, garbage collector and maintenance man befor...

A wave of looming maturities on securitized commercial real estate loans has California lawyers hard at work for borrowers who...

Mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements disproportionally favor employers, write Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld and Nu...

Employers with zero-tolerance policies against workplace violence could find themselves sued by an employee claiming self defe...

Developing countries need to be able to access green technology at relatively low transaction costs, write Bryan A. Liang and ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Two years after regulators launched an investigation of New Century Financial Corp., the case has bogged down, while charges h...

Under a little known provision found deep in the 27-page court budget trailer bill signed into law last month, a court may now...

Robert M. Takasugi, the nation's first Japanese-American federal judge and a man whose childhood experience in a World War II ...

The State Bar needs to get a better handle on its money, including its rapidly growing discipline costs, according to a recent...

Where do United, Target, or other corporations with far-flung operations maintain their principal place of business? It depend...

Delaware has done a remarkable job in convincing out-of-state companies to forsake their headquarters' states and incorporate ...

A Senate bill declares that the Clean Water Act is intended to cover even small and intermittent streams, writes Norman A. Dup...

An appellate court recently validated the special relationship between project applicants and the agencies considering their p...

Judd Kessler debunks bad advice lawyers are given about running a practice in "Dangerous Law Practice Myths, Lies and Stupidit...

A West Hills attorney was arrested late Tuesday at a Century City law office and charged with obstructing a grand jury proceed...

The ink is barely dry on an order issued Tuesday by a panel of federal judges that the state of California come up with a plan...

Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...

Saying California's prison system threatens public safety, a panel of three federal judges Tuesday ordered the state to come u...

Respecting states' rights and limiting federal government long ago emerged as a prominent theme in the Republican Party's poli...

The San Francisco city attorney's office, which filed a lawsuit last year on behalf of state residents against the National Ar...

With city and county budgets and the state budget in turmoil, government lawyers have been waiting eagerly to find out whether...

The myth that judges don't make law is soothing to the general public but entirely untrue, writes Matt Valenti. ...

The Medicare Medicaid and SCHIP Extension Act creates significant challenges for liability and self insurers, writes Sharon C....

Philadelphia-based Blank Rome added bankruptcy capabilities to its fledgling Los Angeles office, grabbing Sara Chenetz from So...

Case law on how to assess patent false marking offenses is sparse, writes Michelle Porter. ...

The case of the "Myspace mom" proves every case is the product of human interaction and consequence, writes Robert D. Brain. ...