Pasquale Iannetti, who once operated an art gallery near San Francisco's Union Square, is accused of knowingly selling fake Mi...

A judge on Friday shot down arguments against a lawsuit that could extinguish the popular July Fourth pyrotechnics at La Jolla...

Surprised by the controversy stirred up by a proposal to accredit law schools outside the United States, American Bar Associat...

At a time when many law school graduates are struggling to find jobs, students at the still-unaccredited UC Irvine School of L...

Corporate litigation observers said several big-name plaintiffs' firms that are growing their shops in Los Angeles are hoping ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s efforts to have a case al...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider whether power companies can be sued under federal common laws to...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide if female employees of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. can proceed with their record-se...

Young lawyers watching on C-SPAN saw for themselves Monday the pitfalls of showing up unprepared to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...

Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Monday he had brokered a settlement in a long-running dispute where environmentalists h...

If they haven't already, general counsels at public companies have one more reason to sharpen their companies' compliance prog...

The wireless medical device sector is driven by the promise of better access to medical care, lower health care costs and big ...

Some California companies that hire large percentages of foreign employees are running up against a twist in labor law that al...

Having done stints as a substitute teacher and juvenile hearing officer, Miriam Morton knows how to deftly manage her bustling...

Three circuit judges hearing the Proposition 8 appeal here on Monday hinted they might delay their decision while they seek gu...

In the third day of a judicial appointments blitz, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger gave the nod late Monday to 19 lawyers from San ...

The latest deals and transactions by California attorneys.

Commissioner Ronald Lorden's busy traffic and arraignment court is a testament to the massive growth in the desert east of Los...

The legal industry shed 1,100 jobs in November, according to a preliminary report published Friday by the U.S. Labor Departmen...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger swore in Tani Cantil-Sakauye as the 28th chief justice of California Friday morning in a 30-minute ...

A recap of marriage equality cases in the past year and a look ahead at pending cases for 2011. By Margaret M. Russell of Sant...

Will the state Supreme Court put the "community caretaker" exception to rest? By Patrick T. Santos of the Law Offices of Ronal...

Don't be fooled, the truth behind the environmental sensitivity of hybrid and electric vehicles. By Jonathan Michaels of the M...

Discussion of the gender gap in managing partners is not enough; it's time to push for change. By Patricia K. Gillette of Orri...

A resident of Liberty Station in Point Loma, upset over the presence of a "mega church" in her community, might be getting som...

Construction executive Ronald Tutor and a consortium of investors have closed a deal announced last August to buy the Miramax ...

Beazer Homes USA Inc., one of the nation's largest home builders, agreed to pay $925,000 and change the way it manages stormwa...

Iran owes $2.6 billion to 1,000 family members of the 241 U.S. servicemen killed and many more injured in a 1983 suicide atta...

A Los Altos-based tech company must pursue its patent infringement complaint against a dozen defendants in the Northern Distri...

At a time when people are selling off their jewelry to cash in on historically high gold values, a second-hand jeweler in Palm...