Agreement for new San Francisco 49ers stadium is a good example of how not to trigger environmental review. By Aaron M. Cohn, ...

Courts retain discretion over proof of loss causation in class certification analysis. By Eric Landau, Travis Biffar and Kevin...

The Elkins Family Law Task Force's report on family court reform ignores the children. By Amy M. Pellman, Robert N. Jacobs and...

A federal judge in Santa Ana picked a wrongful death and personal injury case for the first bellwether trial in the unintended...

A dispute in the Northern District between two legal recruiting firms, San Rafael-based Legal Additions LLC and New York-based...

Facing threats of a lawsuit over trademark infringement from a clothing company, a Los Angeles fashion blogger is the latest p...

The State Bar has no greater right to withhold its documents rom public access than other state agencies, an appellate court r...

A federal judge has ruled that a nationwide class of Toyota vehicle owners can't be certified under California law. ...

Retired Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn Walker is facing an unprecedented attack by proponents of Proposition 8 who claim...

As Dole Food Co. Inc.settles the last banana pesticide lawsuits against it in U.S. courts, several of its corporate co-defenda...

Appellate Justice Maria P. Rivera has won a reputation for running high-caliber oral arguments, one reason her name has been m...

A roundup of attorney moves in California.

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

The Harley Davidson-riding Judge Herbert J. Exarhos has helped keep big cases in his El Cajon court rather than be sent downtown.

In 1988, California voters passed Proposition 103, requiring property and casualty insurers to get state regulators' approval ...

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Margaret S. Johnson says she puts a huge personal investment into her job.

In the area of corporate crime, the prosecutor's role has gone beyond law interpretation and the pursuit of punishment. Edited...

Now that federal contractors cannot rely on the Bayh-Dole Act to provide title to inventions, what's next? By David C. Doyle, ...

Imagine trying to tame a two-headed dragon - ignore one heard and you will get burned. By Paul Fisher of Pepperdine University...

Lawsuit filed by Brian Stow's Family against the Dodgers shows off irony of Proposition 51. By Robert Abiri of Abiri & Sze...

Hunton & Williams LLP announced Thursday Douglas Mancino has joined the firm from McDermott Will & Emery's Los Angeles...

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday affirmed, in a closely watched case, a lower court ruling that had both upheld an...

In 1990, Philip L. Pillsbury Jr. and Arnold R. Levinson were on one of several adventure trips the two lawyer pals took togeth...

An Irvine lawyer facing 27 counts of fraud and grand theft for allegedly selling shares in nonexistent African gold mines is s...

Lawyers said the depressed real estate market helped move environmentalist plaintiffs and Solano County to a settlement over a...

In 1988, California voters passed Proposition 103, requiring property and casualty insurers to get state regulators' approval ...

Former Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP chairman Tower C. Snow Jr. on Thursday left the firm where he expected to conclude ...

Silicon Valley law firms continue to find work in taking technology companies public. Lawyers from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich &am...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Thursday that existing local telephone companies must make portions of their networks...

The U.S. Supreme Court affirmed the high standard for proving whether a patent has been incorrectly issued, thus upholding a $...