The Central District court gets nearly a third of all bankruptcies filed without lawyers in the nation. ...

The recent erasure of a nine-figure trial court judgment against The Boeing Co. was more than just a stinging defeat for the p...

Lawyers pushing for a judicial overhaul of Men's Central Jail because of inmate abuse allegations have a new witness they hope...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Palo Alto-based Nest Labs Inc. named Richard "Chip" Lutton Jr. as its new general counsel. Lutton Jr. spent the past 10 years ...

Judge Nancy Newman, an avid equestrian, says her job is to keep neck-and-neck with evolving law.

Judge Maxine M. Chesney is a sounding board for her colleagues - and also an avid hiker.

A controversial technology that has brought a massive boom to the natural gas industry in many parts of the country has been q...

I often wished that my students could have shared my experience in Justice Black's study. It profoundly renewed my idealism an...

Three University of California professors have filed a writ of mandate trying to prevent the transfer of human bones to a grou...

California trial judges can order criminal defense lawyers not to talk to their clients about hostile witness testimony under ...

Under pressure from businesses, the state labor commissioner's office has quietly updated rules governing what information emp...

You should continually strive to build a stronger relationship with the firms you regularly use to obtain further concessions ...

Trial and appellate boutique Berkes Crane Robinson & Seal LLP set up a foolproof structure to ensure everyone at the firm ...

The Google engineer who wrote the much-discussed August 2010 email recommending the company get a license for Oracle Corp.'s J...

Seven Bay Area technology companies accused of violating antitrust laws by agreeing not to recruit each other's employees have...

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The suit, filed Thursday by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, claims that the impound rules adopted by the LAPD create...

As secretary of the California Environmental Protection Agency, Matt Rodriquez not only oversees enforcement of laws to prev...

For Feingold, a practicing attorney and a neutral at Alternative Resolution Centers LLC, timing is everything. ...

A downsized San Francisco commissioner and a family law specialist get part-time jobs. ...

New discussions about environmental review fast-tracking are beginning to sprout on the heels of Gov. Jerry Brown's approval o...

Ten years after California established requirements that electrical utilities buy and deliver green energy, the state is comin...

A federal judge Thursday finalized a ruling in the ongoing spat between insurance carriers for Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertai...

In response to anticipated demand, the insurance industry introduced a slew of commercial, non-residential green policies and ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers who've digested the state Supreme Court's recent opinion on meal-and-rest break class actions say that as...

'We have a saying in our firm, "there's no such thing as a bad fact." They're either good facts or irrelevant facts meaning th...

The Center for Civic Mediation held its 19th Annual Awards Dinner on Tuesday at the Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los ...

Every year for the past eight years, Daniel Ben-Zvi of DB Mediation Services along with other mediators, lawyers and politicia...

A packed house celebrated Jenner & Block LLP’s third anniversay in Los Angeles at the firm’s downtown office on April 12. ...