The electorate's reaction against eminent domain is simply not strong enough to serve as the wedge to create wholesale changes...

Despite a murder defendant's protest that the prosecutor is racially biased, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge Tuesda...

Even without federal or state mandates, more and more local governments are "warming" to the concept of sustainability, write ...

There needs to be more consistent policy governing how family law cases are assigned and tried, writes Fred Silberberg. - Foru...

With attorney Terry N. Christensen's trial looming, his legal team filed a fresh set of motions last week seeking a familiar s...

A jury hearing the Bratz copyright battle will get to learn of Mattel's contentions that a former company employee used a soft...

Stanford Law School will abolish letter grades for its students starting with the class of 2011. ...

Web Exclusive - A Brocade attorney informed a judge that the company has identified 11 individuals it plans to sue for backdat...

Web Exclusive - A bill that would add $10 to California Lawyers' dues to pay for a State Bar building on Tuesday cleared the S...

It took two years, a major partner exodus, the loss of all major clients and guilty pleas from four former name partners, but ...

A former pastor, Judge Martha E. Bellinger is a compassionate bench officer who will go to great lengths to help children fin...

The son of a judge, John L. Flynn III was drawn to the law early on. Now he presides in his own courtroom and earns praise fro...

State Bar officials have named Edward J. McIntyre, a partner with San Diego's Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith to its Commi...

Michael Kwun, who was hired four years ago as Google Inc.'s first in-house litigator and had been the public face of its comba...

After a career as a civil lawyer, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James A. Steele makes a smooth trans...

After a trial with several bizarre twists, a man who claimed Del Taco violated his disability rights has lost his suit seekin...

It is too soon to tell whether politicians, business people and lawyers will learn more from the current mortgage crisis than ...

Lawyers will go to court today to try to stop Alameda County from eliminating monthly welfare checks for more than half of the...

What a difference a week makes. In third place a day after the June 3 election, prosecutor Lane Liroff now appears to have se...

While state property and family laws may treat married same-sex couples the same as married heterosexual couples, the federal ...

The Equal Protection Clause does not allow public employees to make individualized claims of employment discrimination, the U....

Agreeing to hear an appeal by Philip Morris for the second time, the U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would again take a look...

For many parties in mediation and litigation matters, the perception of being treated fairly is more important than the actual...

A California woman has won a rare victory in a debt arbitration from the National Arbitration Forum, an agency that has drawn ...

Rejecting a patent holder's bid to collect multiple rounds of royalties, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that ...

In the first court loss for Taser International, a federal jury in San Jose has awarded $6.2 million to the family of a Salina...

McDermott brings on new partner from Latham & Watkins.

LOS ANGELES - Former employees of the mortgage industry in Los Angeles County have an opportunity to receive job training and ...

Judge Barbara Kronlund says juvenile court is the most important assignment she has had because you can affect a child's life ...

Six months in, Alex Kozinski has started strong as chief judge of the nation's biggest federal appellate court. ...