In its most highly anticipated case of the year, the California Supreme Court announced that it will publish its ruling on a c...

Columnist Martin Berg urges prosecutors to reconsider their opposition to letting a terminally ill prison inmate die at home. ...

The Orange County district attorney's office could be forced to lay off four experienced prosecutors and 30 other staff as the...

The Harriet Buhai Center for Family Law is balancing a seesaw of decreasing funds with an exponentially growing clientele. ...

Conservatives' outrage over the word empathy may be out of ignorance, or it also could be an intentional and manipulative obfu...

Recently many states in the U.S. have discovered what a boon it can be to have films shot in their jurisdiction, write E. Barr...

The legality of the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board, a hybrid between a nonprofit and a government agency, is being ...

Assistant Attorney General Tony West taps Santa Clara Counsel Ann Ravel and two former MoFo colleagues for leadership posts in...

One day after President Barack Obama spoke about balancing transparency and national security, a federal judge threatened to s...

The California Supreme Court upheld a state ban on same-sex marriage on Tuesday by a 6-1 vote, but refused to annul the 18,000...

The backlog of cases in the Riverside County court has made Judge Edward D. Webster look forward to his planned retirement at ...

Bench officers who participate in the state's assigned judges program are being asked to voluntarily waive compensation for at...

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

The Obama administration could annul the legal rights of Chrysler LLC's consumers and creditors by distorting bankruptcy laws,...

In a victory for high-tech worker rights, a federal judge has ruled that a clause in a semiconductor company's contract assert...

Many small and mid-sized businesses do not know enough about the California WARN Act and simply are not considering it when im...

What use is the court system if ICE agents can snatch an immigrant even as his matter is being heard before the judge, asks Pa...

Consumer Attorneys of California President Christine D. Spagnoli asks: Shuttering the courts one day a month will be painful, ...

The Court of Appeal recently provided a substantial step forward in promoting clear guidelines on when a foreign corporation c...

An attorney for Hollywood studios battling the Seattle-based company RealNetworks in federal court over a controversial DVD co...

More than 100 former Lawrence Livermore National Lab employees filed an age discrimination lawsuit in Alameda County Superior ...

Mediator Pierre-Richard Prosper says he is seeing success in the negotiations to settle the long-running and contentious intel...

At least three immigrants were arrested inside downtown Los Angeles immigration courts minutes before they were scheduled to a...

A special judicial committee has completed its misconduct investigation of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit in a l...

The Obama administration is stepping up its efforts to appoint a new U.S. Supreme Court justice by approaching two more judges...

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

Bad timing, strategy and voter enmity sank Jack Weiss' campaign for city attorney. ...

Riverside county judge cuts tension of felony courtroom with a little lighthearted humor. ...

Cindy and Steve Hailey's case is the first in which a jury will weigh whether Blue Shield of California was wrong to rescind t...

If the high court grants the petition in Alfriend v. State Bar, it will abdicate 82 years of egalitarian ideals that have prot...