On Friday, Riverside Judge Gloria Trask will weigh whether California Baptist University violated the Unruh Civil Rights Act b...

A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved.

When a federal judge unsealed an order clearing one Malaysian woman's name from a terrorist watchlist last week, a long-fought...

A recent survey plants some key signposts in terms of litigation trends across various industries. By James N. Kramer, Brian S...

As litigation costs have become prohibitive for most individuals over the past 25 years, mediation has become an integral part...

In October, the State Bar of California received a call from the government of Mongolia asking if the State Bar could help wit...

In an unusual alliance between an activist hedge fund and a corporate acquirer, Valeant Pharmaceuticals said it had joined for...

The U.S. Supreme Court grilled New York-based startup Aereo Inc. on its cloud-based television streaming model on Tuesday in a...

The U.S. Supreme Court's ruling upholding Michigan's ban on racial preference in state university admissions was a big disappo...

Legislative efforts to challenge the project were derailed Tuesday in the Senate's Transportation and Housing Committee. ...

Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing traffic stops based solely on an anonymous tip drew sharp criticism from crimin...

In a lengthy battle against the use of jailhouse informants, an Orange County prosecutor said the office would not use an info...

For Earth Day, the head of the Governor's Office of Planning and research opens up about greenhouse gas emissions, energy stor...

On April 15, the Department of Public Health submitted a final regulation calling for a maximum contaminant level for hexavale...

The public trust doctrine stems from a legal fiction of public "ownership" of navigable waters. By Russell M. McGlothlin and S...

Some properties that are now posing "vapor intrusion" risks were once thought to be cleaned up. By Brian E. Moskal and Sedina ...

The EPA's efforts to regulate certain types of wastes as hazardous wastes - some decades in the making - are starting to see t...

After years of ups and downs, in March the California Department of Toxic Substances Control finally began the process of fina...

No longer confined to science fiction, the prospect of reviving extinct species - known as "de-extinction" - could present nov...

Susan T. Taylor, former assistant GC of The Presidio Trust, a corporation designed to manage and protect San Francisco's histo...

Friends remembered Los Angeles litigator Henry Shields Jr., Irell & Manella's first black partner, as a charismatic yet sc...

Los Angeles-based Pom Wonderful went to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to argue that beverage giant Coca-Cola misleadingly l...

While Mayer Brown won't discuss its motivation for taking the case, some legal observers say it's curious that a firm would ta...

A proposal to prohibit judges from participating in the Boy Scouts because of its discriminatory policies against gays and les...

As sparks fly in the race for San Diego's top prosecutor, candidates have leveled stinging accusations that raise questions ab...

Irvine-based financial services firm First Foundation Inc. tapped Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC to help guide its pla...

In a further effort to reduce the federal prison population and scale back severe mandatory minimum sentences, Attorney Genera...

Under U.S. law, it is a crime to refuse a blood test but not under California law. ...

Resistance to the county's efforts to curb groundwater use raises the question of how much power local governments have over t...

Music expert Eric Harmon, once a rugby star, finds the transition easy as an LA County judge.