Citing ongoing budget negotiations, the Legislature has postponed Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye's June 30 state of the jud...

Construction of the state's the first major desalination plant, in Carlsbad, can move forward, a San Diego County Superior Cou...

A month after closing its San Francisco office, Skadden appears to have no regrets. ...

Michelle Ouellette, a partner with Best Best & Krieger LLP in Riverside, is grabbing the attention of legal experts for he...

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC and its now-defunct subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc. have agreed to pay $40.7...

Former Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP partner files another suit against his old firm. ...

Coming at a time of cuts in public services and reduced tax coffers, the city of Chula Vista has been hit with a class action ...

Two law firms have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to protect documents produced in civil discovery from federal prosecutors who ...

A survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel shows that average salaries for Southern California in-house attorneys have g...

The San Diego-based firm known as Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan LLP changed its name to Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini ...

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

Judge Has Often Found Himself the First or Only Black in His Position, but Says His Forefathers Paved the Way

John F. Herlihy, a longtime Santa Clara County Superior Court judge who retired at the end of 2009 and now works as a mediator...

Pfizer Inc. will conduct the first-ever "virtual" clinical trial using mobile devices and the Internet rather than in-person d...

Should there be cameral access to federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court? By Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of La...

How reversal of class certification in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes will affect class treatment of employee claims. By...

Insurance agents need not expect the worst when subject to a customer complaint. By Mark B. Robinson of Michelman & Robins...

Equal Rights Advocates sprang from a clinical program that a trio of female law school students at UC Berkeley School of Law ...

Federal judges can reduce prison time for inmates who pleaded guilty to crack cocaine charges prior to the closed disparity be...

A disbarred attorney can proceed with his suit to collect unpaid fees from well-known plaintiffs' lawyer Thomas V. Girardi, th...

Millennium Holdings LLC paid $8.7 million to 10 California counties and cities to be dismissed from a lawsuit over the marketi...

Lisa M. Johnstone, a corporate associate at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, died unexpectedly this week. She was...

In a ruling with deep significance in the Information Age, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down Thursday a state law protecting ...

William F. "Chip" Merlin Jr. decided to expand his firm's presence to the West Coast and set up shop in Los Angeles. ...

The state Supreme Court reversed a $22.5 million verdict for a Ventura County accident victim Thursday, saying jurors shouldn'...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday against the estate of deceased Playboy playmate Anna Nicole Smith in the marathon court ...

Laboratory technicians that conduct tests used in criminal prosecutions must appear at trial, a divided U.S. Supreme Court dec...

A divided U.S. Supreme Court upheld a railroad worker's victory against his employer, which he sued for negligence after suffe...

A federal judge ordered lawyers involved in a class action settlement related to the Armenian genocide to submit a plan to dis...

After nearly 29 years on the bench, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge John P. Shook has decided to hang up his robes. Sh...