Governments cannot solve their budget problems by repudiating contracts with their employees. By Catherine Fisk of UC Irvine, ...

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

A prominent public relations guru and several co-defendants have agreed to a $6.25 million cash payment to settle a federal la...

A San Francisco federal judge issued two rulings last week that stymied a pair of consumer lawsuits against Apple Inc. and AT&...

Jb growth in the legal industry remained sluggish as only 100 jobs were added nationwide last month.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP added Mark Peterson as partner in Newport Beach. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporat...

In what is being touted as the largest-ever residential solar project, SolarCity has finalized a critical financing agreemen...

Chief counsel at six University of California campuses have received approval for salary hikes ranging between 6 and 21 percen...

The United States Department of Justice gave the green light to Google Inc. for its $400 million planned acquisition of New Yo...

The reduction in the number of civil court reporters in counties such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo has ra...

At the request of a Santa Clara technology company facing a patent infringement suit, a federal appeals court on Friday ordere...

In denying litigator Martin D. Singer's Anti-SLAPP motion Tuesday, a judge determined that the lawyer's demand letter to a cli...

Fresno County officials will file a modification to the 1991 consent decree on early inmate releases that clarifies the term '...

California real estate boutique firm Miller Starr Regalia has announced that Anthony M. Leones will become its new managing sh...

On Monday, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced that Timothy R. Cahn, a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, re...

A nonprofit that filed a constitutional challenge to the National Organ Transplant Act won a victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit...

A vote by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday appears to signal that utilities may have a harder time gett...

Skeptical of CNN's claims that its free speech rights were infringed, a federal court judge appears poised to allow a case aga...

A West Hollywood lawyer and psychotherapist is hoping to capitalize on the gap between what the law requires for mental health...

Mikelis Beitiks, student at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, won first place in the California Supreme Court His...

The decision in Wal-mart could restrict federal court authority to certify punitive damages. By Felix Shafir of Horvitz...

Change of ownership is the trick to permanently lowering your property tax bill. By Bernard J. Vogel III of Silicon Valley Law...

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved U.S. District Judge Jacqueline H. Nguyen's nomination to the 9th U.S. Circ...

On Nov. 17, the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles’ Law Student Mentoring Committee co-sponsored ‘Dress for Success’ wit...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles, an organization dedicated to providing legal services to low-income people in Los Ang...

On Wednesday, Thomas Malcolm, parter at Jones Day, received the Legal Leader Award given by the Whittier Law School Alumni Ass...

A survey reveals that more dentists treat HIV-positive patients than health care providers - why? By Brad Sears of UCLA School...

A glimpse inside the lives of three judges and the legacies they left behind. By Jamie Alexis Newbold of Brayton Purcell LLP

Stanford law students had an interesting guest lecturer on Thursday: California Attorney General Kamala Harris. The students a...

Ruling on an issue closely watched by the real estate industry, a judge blocked hundreds of residents of a condominium associa...