The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the consumer law designed to protect against deceitful marketing in the sale of serv...

The Senate confirmed Morrison & Foerster's Tony West as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil divi...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to intervene for a second time in a long-running class action case against the estat...

Public agencies can use taxpayer money to inform voters about the effects of ballot measures, but must be very careful about i...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in a landmark decision that local governments can ban gun shows on public property ...

The surfing, bilingual Magistrate Judge Peter C. Lewis found his path following a Japanese odyssey. ...

Several years ago, Judge Bert Glennon heeded a juror's suggestion and referred a case to mediation. Since then, he's become a ...

Brian E. Cabrera was raised in a high-tech household by a nuclear engineer father. That's helped him navigate the world of non...

Hundreds of Monterey County McDonald's employees have brought a class action against the company's franchises for allegedly fo...

Newly released Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing brutal interrogation methods have renewed calls for a criminal or imp...

Focus - The Department of Health and Human Services has indicated it will depart from "gotcha" enforcement of the Stark Law, w...

Improper service of lawsuits in Mexico could delay U.S.-Mexico litigation and void past default judgments against Mexican resi...

The purpose of social professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn, is to build relationships, writes Sharon Berman. ...

Would-be associates at the top firms should think long and hard about what they're getting themselves into, cautions Edwin Ree...

When Superior Court Judge David Mintz was denied the only surgery that doctors said could save his life, he sued to receive tr...

Councilman Jack Weiss says his opponent Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich could be tainted by his private practice representing potentia...

Requiring the obligor to pay more than the parent can afford often creates other consequences that negatively affect the child...

Political law, a niche practice in California, is holding steady as other practice areas recede in response to the bad economy...

Thousands of criminal convictions are called to question in San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties. ...

The so-called "endangerment finding" promises to transform the federal government's role in addressing climate change, giving ...

In the wake of multiple federal lawsuits, Costco, the world's largest warehouse membership chain, has agreed to eliminate its ...

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

Real estate attorney Pamela Westhoff has left DLA Piper for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton, where she will continue h...

Superior Court Judge Joan M. Lewis was set on a path to medicine and thought she might argue free speech one day. She ended up...

UC Irvine's fledgling law school accepts an inaugural class that it says should place it in the company of the nation's most e...

Should you find yourself in the rough due to a deficient notice of appeal, California Rule of Court 8.100(a)(2) may get you ba...

Pressure is growing for California Sen. Barbara Boxer to pick a woman as a nominee to fill a vacant district judgeship on the ...

Top law schools, recognizing their fledgling attorneys might have trouble leaving the nest, have begun establishing academic a...

Bankrupt San Francisco law firm Heller Ehrman is struggling to pay its creditors and may try to squeeze money out of its forme...

David S. Casey Jr. is overseeing four committees for Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., charged with vetting candidates for fede...