Cases on the Supreme Court's 2011 docket could dramatically alter the way we apply the exclusionary rule and Miranda protectio...

Erwin Chemerinsky's book evaluates the impact of the Supreme Court's conservative justices. By Richard L. Kellner of Kabateck ...

Discovery delays are often treated like the weather - everyone complains about them while assuming they're inevitable. But cha...

Two condemned inmates on Wednesday filed a motion to intervene in a pending challenge to California's lethal injection procedu...

Next year, trade groups and lawyers - biotech counsel as well as plaintiffs' attorneys - seek to influence new high-stakes rul...

When it comes to navigating the landmark federal health care reform passed in March, many in the health care industry are focu...

When Intel Corp. scooped up security software giant McAfee Inc. for $7.7 billion in August, it meant a payday for lawyers at M...

Optimism by California corporate lawyers for 2010 appears to have been justified, and dealmakers are again hopeful that next y...

As the court shifts and adjusts to accommodate several departures and arrivals - five district judgeships have opened in the l...

It's the right idea in the wrong place, according to the lawyer representing a group of Indian and environmental activists sui...

Officials of the ACLU of Southern California say they could have done a better job overseeing conditions at the Men's Central ...

California's new green-building code adds a layer of compliance. Some welcome it, while others say it complicates construction...

Jeffer Mangels lawyers said sharing love of favorite bottles and of wine generally has formed deep personal connections within...

Snyder Law leased space in the newly built office 420 S. Fairview Ave. building in Goleta.

Strike, downturn has cut paychecks for Hollywood actors and writers and their lawyers. ...

Now is a good time to advance ideas to improve the administration of justice. By John H. Sullivan of the Civil Justice Associa...

While outbreaks of disease on cruise ships are becoming more prevalent, there remains no clear precedent for determining accou...

Updating your pension and ERISA plans makes for a good New Year's resolution. By David McFarlane and Samuel Krause of Snell &a...

Advances in technology call for courts to revisit rules for electronically stored information. By Daniel B. Garrie, Jerry Levi...

Will Proposition 26 pass California's single-subject rule? By Chris Elmendorf of U.C. Davis. ...

Attorneys representing former Hewlett-Packard chairman Mark Hurd are battling to keep private a letter that eventually prompte...

A state appellate court Tuesday approved a law that requires Los Angeles County to continue paying sitting Superior Court judg...

Franklin Orfield, a retired San Diego County Superior Court judge, died Thursday of complications from a stroke. He was 89. ...

Allan Littman, a Bay Area trial litigator who was still winning landmark cases well into his senior years, died of cancer on D...

The courts laid down important decisions on environmental issues this past year, hitting everything from genetically modified ...

The first female majority on the state Supreme Court isn't expected to significantly change things. ...

With barely two weeks to go until trial, MGA Entertainment Inc. is appealing a federal judge's decision about which attorneys ...

By next fall, applicants to some prominent law schools will be able to learn more about graduates' job prospects and, within a...

A run-of-the-mill employment discrimination lawsuit in Oakland federal court has generated a post-trial controversy over wheth...

While the economy remained in the doldrums in 2010, investors continued to put their money behind clean technology such as ren...