The U.S. Senate and House move to ban insider trading by members of Congress. By Pamela J. Marple and Michael Pusateri of Chad...

Ever wonder why these maxims are codified in our Civil Code? By Joshua S. Hopstone of Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP ...

Laguna Beach and Dana Point city councils voted this week to ban single-use plastic bags, joining roughly 20 other California ...

An 87-year-old man has filed a potential class action against an insurance company, accusing it of refusing to honor thousands...

A consumer group filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission block Google Inc. from implement...

Local and federal law enforcement agents in the Bay Area nabbed 27 suspects Tuesday in a large-scale operation targeting suspe...

Orange County's Kidman, Behrens & Tague LLP has shut its doors, citing "business reversals," but has reopened as Kidman La...

Sunnyvale-based chip designer Rambus Inc. and Santa Clara-based graphics chip company Nvidia Corp. resolved all of their lawsu...

A conservative watchdog group has filed several Freedom of Information Act lawsuits related to Department of Energy loan guara...

One of the leaders of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's China practice is retiring from the firm next week to join a M...

Northern District U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag delivered on her promise to crack down on white collar crime Wednesday with indic...

Lifting the veil a bit on the government's opaque terrorist watchlist system, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled ...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is said to be in merger discussions with Houston's Fulbright & Jaw...

General Counsel for Activision Blizzard Inc. Santa Monica ...

A convenient way to track the state Supreme Court's most important civil law cases. By Joseph M. Lipner and BJ Ard of Irell &a...

Highridge Partners and Montgomery Capital Partners added two tenants to its 10-story, 196,630-square-foot office building at 5...

California's voter-approved Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban cannot stand because it violates the U.S. Constitution's equal...

The state Supreme Court may have laid the foundation for a sea change in asbestos litigation. By William O. Martin Jr., Jules ...

Whether a deadline has passed is not always a black and white issue. By Margaret M. Grignon and Kasey Curtis of Reed Smith LLP...

The charged debate over Internet 'freedom' and copyright law is alive and well in the courts. By Robert G. Badal and Emily S. ...

The state Supreme Court Tuesday seemed ready to apply a harmless-error test to a judge's gag order that prevented a defense la...

The North Coast Rivers Alliance and others are facing off against Westland's Water District, the state's largest irrigation di...

The state judicial watchdog agency on Tuesday publicly admonished Trinity County Superior Court Judge Anthony C. Edwards for t...

Publisher William A. Rutter who founded the legal publication the Rutter Group has died. He was 83. ...

Former 'master settlement judge' Karl Jaeger dies. ...

San Diego-based Illumina Inc.'s board of directors voted unanimously Tuesday to reject Roche Holding Ltd.'s $5.7 billion bid t...

Last week's opening of Los Angeles County's juvenile dependency courts to the press and public has led to legal action from ch...

The Los Angeles city attorney's office has been less than eager to disclose the details of its contingency-fee arrangement wit...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris continues to try to hammer out more favorable terms on behalf of the state's residen...

The question is not whether abused children will be harmed, but how many and how badly they will be retraumatized. By William ...