Watching her Mexican parents start life in a new country has made Los Angeles County Judge Olivia Rosales pragmatic but determ...

A series of new regulations and legal documentation requirements have made buying a home more complicated today than it was pr...

Court employees can feel free to rat out their bosses for fraud, waste and abuse, thanks to new legislation Gov. Schwarzenegge...

San Francisco's Hanson Bridgett snagged a contract with the state's Department of Personnel Administration, capped at $500,000...

Superior Court Judge Gregg Marcus, whose legal career spans 40 years, is retiring. ...

Hewlett-Packard Co.'s board of directors has been hit with another lawsuit over its handling of the resignation of Mark Hurd, ...

Five of financier David Bergstein's film companies that are currently battling creditors trying to force the entities into ban...

Regular visitors to the criminal courts building in downtown Los Angeles know to allow an extra 10 minutes for security screen...

Attorneys defending Manatt, Phelps & Phillips in a legal malpractice claim brought by a class of retired NFL players have ...

It is human nature to seek out the best and most personalized solution. But in a time of limited resources, efficiency is key ...

It's been 56 years since Brown v. Board of Education. Are America's schools still maintaining racial equality or are th...

The explosion of a Sea-Doo jet ski two years ago in Lake Havasu is at the center of a lawsuit alleging that the popular waterc...

Oft-criticized U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of the Central District has been removed from presiding over a case that's o...

Your company's top salesperson has downloaded the customer database and several contracts - and is about to jump ship. Now wha...

Michael J. Roberts, of ADR Services Inc., says settling tough construction, real estate and employment disputes requires f...

Bay Area lawyers at Morrison & Foerster and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati landed the legal work for this year's lar...

Andre Gharakhanian uses teaching moments and feedback to help his lawyers assimilate into "Silicon Legal" style. ...

Alleged sexually violent predators don't have the right to claim they are mentally incompetent to undergo a civil commitment h...

While 20 states have challenged federal health reform, California has chosen to stay out of the fray. If Republican candidate ...

Mary Jo Levinger, a bar owner's daughter, found her gender barred her from jobs after she passed the California State Bar

Saban Brands now owns all Paul Frank assets and intellectual property, including more than 150 character designs. The purchase...

The California Supreme Court Wednesday declined to review a San Francisco civil attorney's request to toss prosecutors' murder...

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The key to benefiting from court sponsored alternative dispute resolution is to understand that parties are referred, not orde...

A California appellate court has dealt a blow to groups long seeking to block construction of a new transmission line that wou...

A relatively new concept, cloud computing could lead to some novel problems concerning jurisdiction, by Anthony I. Giacobbe Jr...

A fight heated up this week between San Diego plaintiffs' attorney Gregory Weston and Florida law firm Beck & Lee, whose a...

With technological progress predicted to continue growing exponentially for at least 20 years, what rewards and threats will r...

Seven alleged victims of a defrocked Bay Area priest convicted decades ago of child molestation, have sued a top bishop and th...

Now that a federal judge has struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, the legal community is buzzing with the possibilit...