Gov. Jerry Brown signed State Bar dues legislation Monday that keeps the annual lawyers' dues fee at $410 for most bar members...

A state court judge has certified a class of more than 100,000 plaintiffs who claim the city of Chula Vista illegally taxed th...

Palo Alto-based law firm Cooley LLP launched a new online generator Monday to help emerging U.S. companies draft privacy polic...

Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest Inc., the division of Planned Parenthood serving San Diego, Riverside and Imperial...

Board members of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles won't choose their next Trial Lawyer of the Year for anothe...

Immunity for a California Highway Patrol officer who fired 12 rounds that killed a woman after a high-speed chase appeared ser...

A San Ramon attorney on Tuesday was arrested on a six-count federal indictment alleging she evaded taxes and coordinated illeg...

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley honed her skills for more than a decade as a federal law clerk.

A San Jose jury's conclusion that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. did not infringe a patent on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will no...

Defaulted homeowners are often easy targets for lawyers peddling false hopes that foreclosure may be avoided by suing the lend...

Get to know the types of distribution arrangements for releasing you film on video and in theaters. By Mark Litwak ...

The recently-formed California Appellate Law Group is seeking to reap the benefits of collaboration without the overhead costs...

Judge Lynn Poncin runs a formal courtroom, but her humanity affects lawyers and litigants.

Under a measure signed into law Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown, depositions in most cases will be limited to less than seven hours...

More voices are calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill into law that would put strong limitations on local law enforcement...

If media reports are correct, Zynga Inc. may have reached an agreement with competitor Electronics Arts Inc. last year to limi...

The number of new students starting at ABA-accredited law schools in California has fallen roughly 8 percent each of the last ...

A shocking 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies now have Facebook accounts; 73 percent are active on Twitter. By David L. Marti...

California cannot afford to allow companies -- foreign or domestic -- to cheat the state out of money while reaping the benefi...

One especially frightening development involves grand jury subpoenas to produce your own offshore bank records. Most lawyers h...

A memorial session for the late Chief Judge Emeritus James R. Browning of the 9th Circuit is set for Friday in San Francisco a...

A 9th Circuit panel voted 2-1 late Monday to temporarily halt enforcement of Montana’s law making it a criminal offense for an...

Groups representing plaintiffs and defendents won some, lost some in final legislative session that was focused on pension ref...

All complex litigation civil documents in San Francisco County Superior Court must now be filed electronically, Court Executiv...

The U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of California announced Monday it reached a $6.4 million settlement with S...

On Monday, Division 3 of the 4th District Court of Appeal published a previously unpublished decision upholding a preliminary ...

Hogan Lovells US LLP has acquired five new intellectual property partners, including a four-partner team from the San Jose off...

Judge Steven A. Brick is known as a no-nonsense jurist who demands attorneys be prepared.

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

The number of class actions filed against food companies for allegedly misleading consumers has increased dramatically during ...