Redwood Shores-based Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $46 million to the U.S. government to resolve claims Sun Microystems Inc.,...

San Francisco can't be sued over accusations that its policy to provide sanctuary for illegal immigrants caused the death of a...

A federal judge has given the U.S. Bureau of Land Management until 2014 to improve its plan for managing millions of acres in...

The 9th Circuit ruled Monday that sheriffs in two Northern California counties may have been on thin legal ice when they banne...

Industrial real estate giants AMB Property Corp. and ProLogis have agreed to a merger, creating a combined company that will o...

A plaintiffs' lawyer is now $4,500 poorer after being sanctioned for violating a court's order protecting the identity of a wi...

A federal magistrate judge in Oakland issued a rebuke to Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP for its disclosure of an op...

State regulators have released long-awaited guidelines on nursing home staffing that some industry lawyers say could provide t...

A federal judge has allowed civil racketeering claims to go forward against AT&T Inc. in a proposed class action accusing ...

Maxwell Technologies Inc., a publicly traded maker of energy-storage and power-delivery products in San Diego, agreed to pay a...

Los Angeles County Superior Court referee Mark Frazin turned a punishment assignment into a dream career working with children.

Xilinx Inc., a provider of programmable computer platforms, announced Monday it acquired AutoESL Design Technologies Inc.

Officials on all sides of California court security continue to debate about how to provide it at the lowest cost. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently broadened the prohibition on retaliatory conduct against third parties by employers. By Lonny ...

The 9th Circuit should follow other courts and limit family association claims to conduct that intentionally disrupts relation...

To what extent can an employer regulate conduct during non-working hours? By Scott A. Freedman and Jessica A. Barajas of Morri...

In an effort to resolve the Prop. 8 standing controversy, the 9th Circuit resorts to a rarely used legal procedure. By John C....

Fundamental principles to know about trying gang cases. By Gregory A. Dohi and Darrell Mavis of the Los Angeles County Superio...

The judges of San Diego County Superior Court have elected Carlsbad attorney Kelly C. Doblado a commissioner. ...

A portrait of U.S. District Judge Vaughn R. Walker of the Northern District, who is retiring after 21 years on the bench, was ...

Inmates in Ventura County jails can send and receive only postcards, a policy in place since October to curb the incoming flow...

The Service Employees International Union joined the fray over the state's plan to sell off 11 office and court complexes to p...

A Ralphs grocery store in Fresno can boot unions from picketing on its property, a California Court of Appeal ruled Thursday -...

Lawyers for Mattel Inc. honed in on a tattered three-ring binder Friday in a trial in which the toy company is trying to prove...

Roman Silberfeld will be honored this week by the Beverly Hills Bar Association with its"excellence in advocacy" award for th...

Online comments and disparaging remarks posted by a plaintiffs' attorney to a private listserv were declared off-limits by a j...

An appellate court flipped a trial court's decision in a lawyer fee-sharing contract dispute. ...

A corporate transactions specialist at Greenberg Traurig LLP has been charged with doctoring financial documents to cover up a...

Transitioning from registered nurse to court commissioner taught Rita Baird that what she likes most is assisting others, whet...

A heated wage-and-hour class action against Wal-Mart continues to spurt allegations - this time not about the merits of the ca...