Veteran aviation defense attorney, Edwin W. Green, whose legal work included litigation from the 9/11 terrorist attacks as wel...

Was a budget trailer bill passed in June used to circumvent the number of votes needed to pass urgency legislation? That’s the...

Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of six superior court judges Tuesday , another push to fill what at the beginnin...

Federal government eavesdroppers are off the hook for intercepting phone calls without a warrant between an Oregon Islamic gro...

Despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling against warrantless surveillance of GPS devices earlier this year, a 9th Circuit panel app...

New legislation gives the California Franchise Tax Board more tools to identify accounts of delinquent tax debtors held at fin...

California law prohibits anyone from recording confidential communications without knowledge and consent; many people, includi...

Ford did it. Chrysler and GM did too. Now Land Rover is joining the party to eliminate its franchised automobile dealers acros...

The American Bar Association adopted changes to its model ethics rules that will allow a lawyer who changes firms to disclose ...

As the second week of the high-stakes patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. began Monday, the attor...

An appellate court has ordered an Encino attorney to pay the firm Nemecek & Cole $289,000 in unpaid fees, affirming an arb...

A jury has awarded an Orange County man $38.6 million after finding a shorter than required railing-not the man's .267 percen...

Superior Court Judge Michael D. Carter goes out of his way to make jurors feel welcome.

Judge Richard Monroy isn't worried about how his decisions might reflect upon him.

Community and environmental groups concerned over the impacts of development projects are getting locked into more battles wit...

The proposed regulations are among the first comprehensive, state-level efforts to find safer alternatives to hazardous chemic...

Borrowers need loan modifications, but who holds and/or services their loan may determine the borrower's ability to obtain a l...

The Supreme Court's decision rejects the general rule of agency deference. By Shawn Khorrami and Corina Valderrama of Khorrami...

Coca-Cola is not happy with SodaStream's cage-of-cans advertising campaign, and has filed suit in other countries to stop it. ...

After more than two years of study and debate, American Bar Association officials on Friday rejected a proposal to accredit la...

A long-running labor dispute between deputy district attorneys and Contra Costa County has boiled over, with the prosecutors' ...

Attorneys with Panish Shea & Boyle LLP in Los Angeles last week won a $20 million verdict for their client who suffered ...

Teledyne Technologies Inc., a Thousand Oaks-based industrial conglomerate, announced Friday the retirement of its longtime gen...

Electronic Arts Inc. filed suit against gamemaker rival Zynga Inc. Friday, alleging the San Francisco company copied point-f...

The U.S. legal services sector added 1,400 jobs in July, pushing the total number of employees in the sector to 1,120,500, acc...

An attorney advocate for gay rights at the state and federal level is making a jump back to her former workplace, which is exp...

The most recent numbers on the impact of budget cuts to the judicial branch don't appear likely to significantly affect labor...

U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh reasserted control of the high-stakes patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics ...

The agency charged with policing California's labor laws does not collect tens of million of dollars in fines it levies, a lar...

After losing his wife to cancer, Judge Kenneth Barr encourages others to live life to the fullest.