The Orange County Lavender Bar Association officially launches next week with an event at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Irvine ...

Lawyers analyzing the climate change impacts of their clients' projects have had little legal guidance. Bay Area air quality r...

Just as stem cells develop and change into brain or liver cells, patents for related innovations are evolving as well. ...

A 15-year legal brawl over a massive industrial complex near the U.S./Mexico border has erupted again, thanks to a series of a...

The settlement between screenwriters and the Writers Guild of America West ends a five-year legal battle involving tens of mil...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to stay a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld Arizona's campaign financ...

If Elena Kagan is approved, all nine justices will have attended Harvard or Yale, and the Supreme Court will consist of a narr...

In his new book, Patrick Del Duca takes a comparative look at cross-border secured lending and commercial dispute resolution. ...

Bryan Wildenthal of Thomas Jefferson School of Law asks whether children born on American soil obtain "birthright" U.S. citize...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles wants to keep secret testimony given by its cardinal and other high ranking offi...

Four San Diego stockbrokers convicted in 2006 of bilking customers out of $5 million in a pump-and-dump scheme got what will l...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith A. Jury has recused herself from a lawsuit filed by the trustee for bankrupt real estate develo...

Corporate transactional lawyer Yabo Lin moved his practice Monday from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to Sidley Austin's Pa...

A San Jose federal judge deferred any decision about Facebook Inc.'s lawsuit against social networking site aggregator Power V...

The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm Lucy H. Koh as a federal district judge for the Northern District of California. ...

Voters don't have a constitutional right to a secret ballot when it comes to local property fee elections, the California Supr...

Affirming a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that the federal Bureau of Prisons ha...

Sanctions totaling more than a quarter of a million dollars against Marina del Rey copyright lawyer Anthony Kornarens were wel...

Lawmakers, entertainment executives and media industry analysts voiced concerns at a Congressional hearing Monday about the po...

Marsh & McLennan Cos. spun off investigatory arm Kroll Inc. on Monday, selling the company to Virginia-based professional ...

Kurt Melchior of Nossaman says a recent appellate decision creates a low burden of proof for revoking the license of a profess...

David Grenardo of King & Spalding explains how to argue effectively in order to represent your client's interest to the be...

Gary Watt and L. Maple Lay of The McNamara Law Firm provide some basics to keep in mind when dealing with Code of Civil Proced...

In a race with few fireworks and a crowded field of candidates, the battle to become the next Attorney General has been relati...

Two former top Whittier Law School administrators engaged in constructive fraud and negligent misrepresentation when offering ...

Federal prison inmates can sue for damages employees of private companies operating their lockups, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit ...

Law firms and corporations across the state, seeking to cut costs while building longstanding relationships, are experimenting...

For women who want to impact their law firm's power structure, they must change the focus of their initiatives, writes Patrici...