A bevy of presiding judges and court officers are urging the Judicial Council to revamp the process for issuing new rules of c...

San Diego-based PacketVideo Corp., which claims Spotify USA Inc. infringed its patented music streaming technology, is attempt...

Attorney General Kamala Harris traveled to a poor Riverside County community Thursday to speak out against a massive proposed ...

A group of medicinal marijuana patients and dispensaries is trying to overturn the city of Los Angeles' ordinance limiting the...

Judicial nominees for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Northern District of California moved another step closer ...

About one in 10 judges who take the bench every day in San Bernardino County wouldn't be there if not for a statewide program ...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup, ratcheting up the pressure on Oracle Corp. and Google Inc. to settle their lawsuit over pat...

Despite a deal signed last week with a top state court leader, the $2.5 million in bail out money San Francisco County Superio...

Edwin B. Reeser talks about the controversial practices used by law firms to manage profits and partner compensation. ...

O n Wednesday, Thomas V. Girardi of Giradi Keese, president of the Italian American Lawyers Association, hosted an event for m...

On Sep. 1, members of the Southern California chapter of Association of Corporate Counsel teamed up with students at the UC Ir...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has minted the words "dissental" and "concurral" as shortha...

Two state appellate decisions blur the law as to whether an insured's private right to action remains barred under certain cir...

For lateral partners seeking a new home, and law firms seeking their next rainmaker, the courtship just got even more complica...

Attorneys from all around the world join forces to help those who lost someone on Sept. 11. By David S. Casey Jr. of Casey Ger...

When seeking a foreign manufacturer to make your product a reality, remember, your destiny is in the details. By Vasko R. Mitz...

This month, two partners departed major real estate firm Allen Matkins to join forces and start their own boutique practice in...

A federal judge is weighing whether to incarcerate an ultra orthodox Hasidic rabbi who has refused to testify to a grand jury ...

Prosecutors plan to retry a San Jose lawyer for conspiracy to launder money after the judge determined last month she deserved...

Citing the recent Dukes v. Wal-Mart decision, a federal judge denied class certification Tuesday to a putative class of black ...

The California Department of Public Health on Wednesday assessed fines totaling $650,000 against 12 California hospitals. ...

California Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed a bill Wednesday that would have outlawed picketing outside of funerals because it did not ...

Ten students who loudly protested during a UCI speech by Israel’s U.S. ambassador in February 2010 carefully orchestrated a pl...

The former head of President Barack Obama's task force to combat fraud in the wake of the financial meltdown has joined the Sa...

In a lively oral argument Wednesday before an audience of UC Hastings College of the Law students, the state Supreme Court s...

The judge in the multi-million-dollar corporate feud involving Trust Co. of the West has limited further cross-examination of ...

Land use and municipal lawyers say cities are increasingly going to court to try to force bond companies to pay to finish publ...

With summer associate programs for 2011 in the books and firms already on law school campuses recruiting for 2012, hiring appe...

San Mateo-based SolarCity clinched a $344 million government loan guarantee Wednesday to help fund what the U.S. Energy Depart...

The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors narrowly approved a plan to accommodate the thousands of state parolees and inmate...