California's livelihood depends on a reliable water supply system that is not governed by incessant legal challenges and rulin...

Members of the legal community donated more than 1,600 hours of service and raised more than $285,000 during the Los Angel...

Terry L. Polley of Ajalat Polley Ayoob & Matarese was honored by the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s Taxation Sectio...

"South Pacific," a 1949 musical by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, was the featured performance at the 25th annual th...

The South Asian American Bar Association of Northern California hosted the National Asian Pacific American Bar Associations’ ...

Larry Fidler, a one-time defense attorney turned Superior Court judge, rejects charges that he favors the prosecution in h...

With Tuesday's easy win of the Republican nomination for Attorney General, Steve Cooley is continuing his decade-long stretch ...

San Francisco D.A. Kamala Harris has recently spent much time in the spotlight answering questions that have nothing to do wit...

The Obama administration has nominated the police chief of Half Moon Bay, Donald Martin O'Keefe, to be the U.S. Marshal for th...

The ACLU of Southern California and Munger, Tolles & Olson have reached a settlement with the city of Santa Monica over th...

The U.S. EPA announced it will ban a highly toxic pesticide used on crops such as tomatoes and cotton. ...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Dolores Carr is on the verge of a stunning election defeat at the hands of one of the dep...

California Chief Justice Ronald M. George issued an order late Wednesday that will keep the consolidated state court litigatio...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal and the London-based firm Denton Wilde Sapte formalized their merger Wednesday. ...

California voters Tuesday overwhelmingly passed Proposition 13, which bans tax increases for earthquake retrofitting. ...

After a particularly messy campaign, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Paul Zellerbach defeated District Attorney Rod Pach...

This year's judicial races saw many more candidates than usual taking on sitting judges, but with mixed results. ...

Atmel Corp.'s former general counsel, Mike Ross, has reached a settlement over his alleged role in stock options backdating. ...

The city of Redondo Beach can once again enforce an ordinance prohibiting day laborers from standing on streets and highways s...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a ruling that Warner Bros. Entertainment did not infringe two screenwriters' copyr...

Officials on Wednesday had to shut down public access to Sacramento Superior Court's computerized records after finding that c...

Brett Rosenblatt and Jason Crowell of Latham & Watkins write about California's program to encourage solar power system co...

Mari Frank's professional identity as a lawyer was stolen in 1996. Her latest book provides in-depth coverage on how victims c...

Employers have few satisfactory options for addressing potentially violent misconduct arising from an employee's disability, s...

Alexander Polsky of JAMS addresses the practice of "labeling" arbitrators who issue an adverse award or a series of adverse aw...

Edward Chang and Rhianna Bauer of Jones Day discuss forum selection clauses in the context of international commerce. ...

The California Supreme Court waded deeper into the battle over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts Wednesday and granted ...

Once again, U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles has been reversed and bounced from a case. ...

Do bar association opinions influence voter choices in judicial elections? The answer: hardly; maybe not at all. ...

A hospital's decision to fire nurses for allegedly posting patient information on a social networking site highlights an emplo...