After months of drawing attention to the cause, plaintiffs' attorneys are staring down a high-stakes ballot fight to lift the ...

Riverside County Judge Matthew Perantoni, handling a domestic violence calendar, stays calm.

With the help of a Santa Monica-based law firm, patent licensing company SimpleAir Inc. has won an $85 million jury verdict ag...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

San Diego's criminal court judge Lantz Lewis survived an electoral challenge to stay on the bench.

Juvenile dependency judge Shawna M. Schwarz has always known she wanted to work with children.

Last month, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employees who wish to take leave under the Family and Medical Lea...

In 2013, I walked 4,838,918 steps, 2,270.37 miles, 6,254 flights of stairs and burned 1,064,631 calories - while wearing a sui...

A controversial bill winding through Congress would change the way in which the government regulates emerging technology tha...

A recent legislative proposal begins another chapter in the seemingly endless medical marijuana saga. By Robert Shannon ...

A Santa Barbara panelist was removed after questions raised about his identity. ...

The Japanese American Bar Association held its annual gala event this month, with U.S. Rep. Mark Takano serving as the evening...

What constitutes nice for Claudia Hagadus Long is direct - very direct - to just about everyone else. ...

The Southern California Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its 19th annual gala and silent auction on Marc...

Ernest Kirkwood, a former client of the San Francisco public defender's office was on hand March 18 to honor former Chief Atto...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal rules environmental review for new community of 60,000 was adequate. ...

Van der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale is known for grabbing immigration cases others won't take. The firm stands out, it...

The Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles hosted the annual State of the Circuit luncheon March 13 in downtown Los Angeles wi...

Privacy law experts at an American Business Trial Lawyers event Tuesday discussed the difficulties associated with navigating ...

San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program Inc., a nonprofit that provides free civil legal services to thousands of low-income San Di...

The program could yield first case law on the practice of testing for impairment. ...

A Carlsbad-based lawyer must serve more than five months in prison for helping a pair of clients squirrel away millions of dol...

Gunderson Dettmer Stough Villeneuve Franklin & Hachigian LLP helped prominent Silicon Valley venture capital firm Accel Pa...

Lawyer and Bay Area real estate developer John T. Kontrabecki's effort to veil a discreditable episode from his past backfired...

New legislation pushed by process servers would move their oversight from county clerks to the State Bar. ...

In 2012, Bazaarvoice acquired its next largest competitor in a transaction too small to require federal premerger notification...

For the first time in nearly 40 years, a state appellate court last week ruled an eminent domain statute unconstitutional. If ...

An en banc panel says police can collect cheek swabs from felony suspects. ...

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

With the automaker facing a bevy of suits over alleged defects, the agreement with the Department of Justice could help push c...