A conflicted U.S. Supreme Court struggled Wednesday with the touchy question of whether employers trying to adhere to anti-dis...

The State Bar has sent letters to attorneys doing loan modification work checking that lawyers aren't using advertising that p...

Citing unspecified family reasons, U.S. District Judge Florence Marie Cooper said she will resign from the federal bench, effe...

The state Supreme Court dismissed review of a $55 million punitive damages award against Ford Motor Co. involving an SUV rollo...

Jane B. Kroesche and Stacy E. Kray discuss how climate change regulation is already impacting California businesses. ...

Candidate Obama promised a tough line against rapacious credit card companies. Columnist Martin Berg wonders: Will President O...

A recent high court decision may give California facilities some breathing room in regard to a controversial environmental pol...

"A Class Apart: A Mexican American Civil Rights Story" illuminates the history and innovative legal theory behind a landmark S...

Thanks to cell phones, MySpace and other technologies, teenagers these days have more ways to find themselves in trouble than ...

A California appellate court has bucked the trend of increasing the liability contractors face for their work, write Stephen N...

A court has rejected an appeal by Deborah Peagler, a former street prostitute dying of cancer who is serving a life sentence f...

A state appellate court has ruled that a case accusing the accounting firm KPMG and the law firm Sidley Austin of breach of fi...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday made it easier for immigrants fighting deportation orders to remain in the country while t...

Kenneth E. Hayes, who had fled the country to escape marijuana charges, returned expecting a more lenient stance from the Obam...

O'Melveny & Myers and UCLA have formed an appellate clinic for third-year law students. In its first semester, the student...

The standard interlocutory appeal provision has worked well in some areas of civil litigation, and it should also function wel...

Whether patdown searches before football games are "reasonable" will be the key to a couples' lawsuit over such security measu...

Volunteers with "Street Law," a nonprofit program hosted by the Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Co...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the brother of a man killed by the Iranian government is barred from seeking access ...

The parent company of defunct logging giant Pacific Lumber is fighting charges in a federal court in Oakland that it mismanage...

The future of a Virginia-based technology company is in doubt after a Santa Clara County jury concluded Tuesday its executives...

The fact that our tax system is biased in favor of single-family dwellings means that newer cities like Los Angeles tend to be...

A case involving a California retailer clarified the rules regarding indemnification and patent infringement, write Stephen P....

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic Tuesday toward school officials who ordered that a 13-year-old ...

Founders of a new Web site, The Legal Workshop, will feature parsed-down, easier-to-digest versions of law reviews from Stanfo...

John Yoo, a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law, participated in a lively debate at the school's Orange cam...

It's difficult to predict the future of patent reform, especially when even ultimate insiders get surprised, writes Bernard J....

Bankruptcy trustees are going after law firms that have counseled financially troubled clients in a bid to recover funds. A le...

A Superior Court judge on Tuesday signaled she would dismiss two high-profile damage cases lodged against Dole Food Co. Inc., ...

Riverside criminal trial Judge Timothy F. Freer, a sports enthusiast who once dreamed of being a super-agent, now uses his int...