Construction magnate Ronald Tutor and a group of investors have acquired Miramax Films from the Walt Disney Co. for $660 milli...

Although the U.S. Supreme Court issued three rulings last term trimming defendants' protections during police interrogations, ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

This second installment in opposition criticizes the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct as suffering from wordiness an...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Judge David A. Hoffer's career prosecuting white-collar criminals helped prepare him for his new role of reforming juvenile of...

California attorneys are hammering out a significant amount of case law on a high-profile issue: class action waivers in manda...

Critics of Proposition 14, the open primary initiative approved by voters this past June, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Sup...

The Environmental Protection Agency Thursday rejected state and industry group petitions to back down from its finding that gr...

Dewey & LeBoeuf lawyers in East Palo Alto did another deal for online social game developer Zynga Game Network, this time ...

A man whose family perished when a Marine Corps jet crashed into their home has filed suit in federal court against the United...

A New York congressman introduced a bill Thursday that would remove the legal blockades preventing the Port of Los Angeles fro...

Armenian descendants living in the United States sued the Republic of Turkey in federal court in Los Angeles Thursday, seeking...

Three federal court security guards will be allowed to go forward with many of their claims that they were retaliated against ...

Disability rights advocates are taking aim at local law enforcement agencies for allegedly failing to provide qualified interp...

Karen Hinton of Hinton Communications ...

Accidents happen. Learn your rights or those of a lost one when tragedy hits. By Reza Torkzadeh of Slaughter & Slaughter a...

Does invalidation of the Federal Communications Commission's "fleeting expletives policy" really matter? By Michael E. Fox of ...

Twelve attorneys from McDonough Holland & Allen and one from Hanson Bridgett will launch an Oakland office for Burke, Will...

The last time Tani Cantil-Sakauye went before the State Bar's judge-vetting commission five years ago she received a lackluste...

The benefits of storing data remotely are plentiful but cloud computing also carries various legal and business conflicts, by ...

How is emotional distress assigned a dollar value in employment and personal injury cases? By Milan Slama. ...

The package of proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct will lead the State Bar down the wrong path, by Kurt W. Melchior of ...

The federal judiciary continues to butt heads with an oversight agency that recently issued a scathing report on how new court...

The two were charged with grand theft and embezzlement Wednesday for allegedly stealing $2.6 million from a San Francisco soft...

President Obama on Wednesday nominated Whittier Police Chief David Mark Singer to serve as U.S. Marshal for the Central Distri...

The law is part of more stringent rules governing residential mortgage originators. ...

A group of Skadden Arps partners based in California helped put together a deal to create a supplier of packaged convenience f...

Yamaha scored a big win in Orange County this week when the first of nearly 200 lawsuits filed alleging safety flaws in its Rh...

A Delaware jury found Facebook Inc. was not liable for patent infringement against an Ohio-based company, because it had sold ...