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...

The latest transactions by California attorneys.

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...

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...