The state appellate panel's decision in a case involving claims over syphilis treatment could have wide ramifications for both...

Despite signals from the Legislature that dramatic change is needed, lawyers on a panel examining ways to revamp how the State...

Employment experts appear split on whether a proposed state law to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $8.50 would help or hurt ...

Another state ruling falls on the side of employers over enforcement of meal and rest periods. By Erik M. Volkert and Annie Ma...

A Southern California lawyer who has drawn heat for famously advising clients to break into their foreclosed homes was arreste...

The U.S. Supreme Court teaches a lesson to a lawyer who tries too hard to be clever. By Richard L. Kellner of Kabateck Brown K...

In a move he said was a sign of actions to come, California's Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced Wednesday that he is...

AB 1208 proposes changes to the state's judicial administration that both lawyers and the public should pay attention to. By C...

What to expect when you decide to resolve a lawsuit through mediation. By Jennifer Achtert of Fisher & Phillips. ...

Suggesting his case may have been better handled with civil charges, a federal judge sentenced a former pharmaceutical executi...

After tightening its belt to weather the recession, Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor LLP has be...

Proponents of Proposition 8 accused former Chief U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of San Francisco on Wednesday of breakin...

Days after a bankruptcy trustee report on financier David Bergstein's film companies landed with bombshell allegations, expert...

Sabra Health Care REIT Inc. signed an acquisition agreement to purchase the Texas Regional Medical Center of Sunnyvale for $62...

Plaintiffs' attorneys accusing banks of rigging the bidding process for municipal bonds want governmental entities to know a $...

Two of the Department of Labor's regulations to the Fair Labor Standards Act are of particular importance to public sector emp...

Officials in India announced on Monday they would not expand their country's use of compulsory licenses, which the government ...

The retirement of the baby boom generation presents an opportunity for women to rise in the legal world. By Katherine C. Piper...

It's the end of an era for California prison inmates seeking federal judges' help in winning parole, the 9th Circuit made clea...

Recent attempts by the government to address health care conscience protections fail to resolve ambiguities. By Shilpa Mathew ...

The state's judicial discipline agency will conduct a formal hearing into whether Judge Richard W. Stanford Jr, a 26-year vete...

A recent change to the "seven-day rule" demonstrates how sound advice can become bad advice. By Mitchell A. Jacobs and Ryan Mc...

Online auction giant eBay Inc. went shopping for the second time in as many months and again turned to Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP...

In a new batch of legal trouble for now-dissolved Howrey LLP, a familiar group of attorneys are joining the fight. ...

The legal feud between media mogul Haim Saban and his former lawyer over a billion-dollar tax shelter is set to proceed after ...

The United States should join Australia, England and other countries and make mediation the first resort in family law dispute...

A class action pending in federal court takes a novel swipe at two major mortgage lenders, alleging they damaged plaintiffs by...

Two founders of a Silicon Valley-based semiconductor giant are suing Goldman Sachs, accusing the investment bank of fleecing t...

In addition to averting a government shutdown, the congressional spending deal should also close a serious spending gap at the...

The Senate unanimously confirmed Los Angeles County Superior County Judge John A. Kronstadt to serve on the federal bench Tues...