Is the Supreme Court's test for policy interpretation consistent with the ordinary rules of contract interpretation in Califor...

A Sunnyvale attorney was convicted Tuesday of multiple counts of wire and mail fraud in federal court. ...

Casey Fleck has been involved in several high-profile public offerings. ...

Non-judicial foreclosures deny fundamental rights to owners. By John R. Engel of Sullivan Hill Lewin Rez & Engel ...

A statewide working group has released a new funding formula to divvy up money from California's coffers to help offset coun...

A Santa Barbara based wind energy developer has approved a deal to sell 4 gigawatts of wind energy projects to a Canadian com...

A divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday reversed a Los Angeles federal judge, holding that two kilos of...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to decide today whether to wade back into the question of what methods and processes can get the...

A Santa Clara County prosecutor's misconduct in a child molestation trial has drawn disciplinary charges from the State Bar. ...

Thirty-eight percent of survey respondents said they would urge their children to pursue another career, and 25 percent said t...

In a push to clamp down on runaway litigation costs, the state attorney general's office has begun rejecting cases from state ...

With a smile or a joke, Mark Zuckman keeps tensions down in a high-volume arraignment court

Kirkland & Ellis LLP inked a deal with landlord Brookfield Office Properties to renew its lease for 102,000 square feet at...

In the aftermath of California's decision to disband redevelopment agencies, some land-use lawyers say they're more worried ab...

Ten lessons for lawyers who use mediation for personal disputes. By Forrest S. Mosten of UCLA School of Law ...

They seem like technical tweaks, but failure to pay attention could result in undesired outcomes. By Dana Taschner and Lee Cir...

In discipline charges filed late Tuesday, the State Bar accused Jon M. Alexander, the district attorney of Del Norte County, o...

No one can paint a full picture of the situation in California: the state doesn't even track when and where wells are fracked ...

Whether it's mixed-use projects near Bay Area Rapid Transit stations or high-density housing straddling rail hubs in Southern ...

A South Lake Tahoe lawyer will be disbarred after being convicted in Canada of a dozen counts in connection with sexual assaul...

John C. Rayburn Jr., a former federal prosecutor and magistrate judge whose faith guided him in and out of the courtroom, will...

In the months following layoffs of 29 Superior Court reporters in September, attorneys have felt their absence. ...

The San Francisco Law Library is having a book sale on May 19 to shed inventory from its Financial District branch, which clos...

The first day of attorneys being required to hire their own court reporters for civil trials in Los Angeles went off with some...

The state Supreme Court on Wednesday questioned why the State Bar thinks an undocumented immigrant should be admitted to pract...

The Chamber of Commerce and plaintiff-side employment lawyers are once again disagreeing over legislation. The chamber release...

Outside lawyers at Steptoe & Johnson LLP were not acting as government agents during an internal bribery investigation of ...

Oracle Corp. will have to wait for a retrial against Google Inc. in order to have a chance at winning hundreds of millions of ...

Judge William Stewart's interest in the law was sparked by a pair of books from the library.

Swimmer Michael Phelps, gymnast Kerri Strug and track and field star Carl Lewis gained celebrity status, thanks to the Olympic...