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...

Gary Reback's book "Free the Market!" explores some of antitrust law's most controversial issues, writes Ekong Udoekwere. ...

While still a judge, David Horowitz designed a program aimed at training bench officers how to guide parties toward settlement...

After three weeks, a jury has rejected claims that Peter Morton, well-known celebrity mogul and co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, ...

Two real estate investment companies represented by Hollywood sole practitioner Lance J. Robbins have been ordered to pay $30 ...

Googling an employee may reveal useful information, but relying on that information may create some pitfalls, writes D. Gregor...

A Riverside County Superior Court judge has agreed to step down from the bench as part of punishment imposed against him by th...

The State Bar has taken control of a Los Angeles business accused of unlawfully dispensing legal advice and services. ...

Some of California's top conservative legal eagles have endorsed two lawyers whose nominations to join the Obama administratio...

A case involving a famous horse track illustrates that the awesome power of eminent domain can be applied in absurd ways, writ...

Defense lawyer Harland W. Braun called U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real a "legal monster" in court papers. Through his attor...

Several states and provinces are requiring industrial facilities to report greenhouse gas emissions, write Ron Ezekiel and Iva...

The Supreme Court has finally provided guidance on implied contractual indemnity, writes Daniel Lee Jacobson. ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered the transfer of the FTC's latest challenge to so-called "reverse payments" in pharm...

The American Clean Energy and Security Act of 2009 is the first serious attempt at addressing climate change and energy issues...

Columnist Martin Berg picks up on the tough questions raised by Elizabeth Warren about use of taxpayer money to bail out Wall ...

David Ackerly favors a change to the Rules of Professional Conduct would allow legal services providers to greatly expand clin...

As legislation addressing climate change stalls in Congress, the federal Environmental Protection Agency may soon move on its ...

The justices have been more vigilant about conflicts since they were forced to dismiss a multimillion-dollar toxic tort case b...

Robert Steinberg and Victoria Pynchon offered competing views on the ADR world.

A program in Orange County allows criminal defendants to have their charges lessened if they are willing to give up their DNA....