A Sacramento judge ruled Tuesday that the attorney general's description of a closely watched November ballot measure to suspe...

New Century Financial Corp., struck a $150 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as sharehol...

California is edging closer to re-instituting lethal injections, but opponents have redoubled their efforts against it. ...

A bill that seeks to dismantle California's barrier preventing lawsuits against adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors...

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Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher opened a three-attorney office in Hong Kong in a move to capitalize on an uptick...

In the latest round in a fight over licensing, a former professional football player filed a class action in San Francisco fed...

Legal issues surrounding same-sex marriage will be a popular topic of discussion when the American Bar Association annual meet...

Will local governments be empowered to ban facilities that dispense medical marijuana? By Ellin Davtyan of Meyers Nave. ...

A lawyer wins a case she never had a chance to try, by John Scherling of Sughrue Mion. ...

Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker will issue an order Wednesday in the closely-watched federal constitutional cha...

Expect the high court to flush out the law as it reviews the degree to which an employer is liable for a worker's injury, by G...

In a significant, if not unexpected, blow to the local plaintiffs bar, a federal judge appointed a New York firm representing ...

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-2 that a former judge did not have a duty to disclose his public censure for se...

The California Supreme Court on Monday affirmed Proposition 209, the 1996 statewide voter initiative that placed a ban on race...

This third installment criticizing the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct focuses on the overexpansion of informed cli...

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A federal judge will hear arguments today on who should be appointed lead counsel in securities litigation against Toyota over...

Vice President and General Counsel of Cadence Design Systems Inc.San Jose ...

A Nevada lawmaker has introduced federal legislation that would provide short term tax incentives as a way to promote reinvest...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has unfrozen associate salaries nearly two years after placing raises on hold. ...

The firm known as Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro for the past 30 years will change its name to Jeffer Mangels Butler &...

In the weeks since Sacramento stalwart McDonough Holland & Allen announced it would wind down operations, firms around the...

Regional housing authorities would be required to replace every affordable residential unit that gets demolished or becomes un...

A lawyer who lost his right to practice and lost a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit for allegedly defrauding homeowners wantin...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter P. Espinoza may not be out of the running for Public Defender after all thanks to a mot...

With discrimination class actions on the rise, employers are wise to keep their pay and promotion practices as balanced as pos...

Will GM, Ford and Chrysler regain their status as the industry's top automakers or will they slip into irrelevance? By Jonatha...

An appellate specialist who has spent the last year trying to topple a client's sexual assault conviction by attacking a jury ...

A cab driver fires one shot after a passenger assaults him. Can the liability insurer of the cab company deny coverage by argu...