Taking a writ was thought to be the only way to challenge a voluntary dismissal, but sometimes opinions take wrong turns. By G...

Associate Justice Betty A. Richli, a long-time judge for the District Court of Appeal in Riverside, is retiring, the presiding...

In a closely watched Prop. 65 case, major food companies are fighting claims that they failed to warn the public about lead in...

Judge Rolf M. Treu ruled the law firm can recover trial costs for the landmark case decided last summer that argued five educ...

A group of caddies sued PGA Tour Inc. Tuesday for requiring them to wear corporate logos during televised golf tournaments wit...

Saying the state failed to live up to its promise to move disabled prison inmates out of solitary confinement, an Oakland fede...

Broadcast giants CBS, Disney, Fox and Viacom are petitioning the DC Circuit in an effort to resist divulging their contract ag...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of the Northern District is known for early hours, bold rulings.

As the number of California breweries skyrockets and competition intensifies, disputes over trademarks that were once handled ...

Executive Vice President of Business Affairs and General Counsel Paradigm Talent Agency Beverly Hills ...

Let's all shed a tear for the board of the bar / We didn't know how much they cared / When they told Joe Dunn he was done / (p...

The defenders of traditional marriage in the current same-sex marriage cases before the U.S. Supreme Court can focus solely on...

Mobility. Convenience. Anonymity. These call signs of the digital age are pervasive in our daily lives, and have been successf...

Last year the U.S. achieved a goal long considered unapproachable: It surpassed Saudi Arabia and Russia to become the world's ...

The Supreme Court's decision in Teva Pharmaceuticals v. Sandoz restores the fundamental juridical principle that appellate cou...

If the U.S. and the UK are two countries separated by a common language, Europe is a common market separated by 28 languages. ...

Former district attorneys now on the bench don't have to disqualify themselves from hearing criminal cases in which they previ...

After nearly 20 years at Jones Day, former partner Philip E. Cook hung up his own shingle in downtown Los Angeles. The Cook La...

Elwood M. Rich, retired judge and longtime fixture at the Riverside courthouse best known for founding California Southern Law...

A California business lobby is working on legislation to stop what it alleges is a plague of lawsuits by asbestos litigators a...

Some companies who agreed to discuss their information management policies on the record appear to be ahead of the curve. ...

The state Supreme Court last fall told the bar to try once more to rewrite California's existing professional conduct rules to...

A growing cry to curb so-called 'frivolous' lawsuits against businesses over disability access regulations has yielded three b...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari to a case challenging a depression-era agricultural "marketing order" requi...

An attorney for venture capital giant Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers LLC demanded access Monday to confidential financi...

The insider trading trial of former baseball star Doug DeCinces was put on ice Monday, just hours before jury selection was se...

Stanislaus County Judge Thomas Zeff is known for his tough courtroom demeanor, bold rulings.

Sacramento Superior Court Commissioner Scott Harman encourages patience in the courtroom.

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

It might be game over for video games that use celebrity likenesses without a license as First Amendment legal defenses are of...