California Supreme Court Justice Joyce L. Kennard will undergo surgery next week to remove what's believed to be a benign grow...

Former Toyota in-house counsel Dimitrios P. Biller--whose allegations about misconduct by the automaker's legal department rec...

The Administrative Office of the Courts is placing its human resources computer project on hold, saying it plans to use the mo...

The legal battle between the district attorney's office and members of a prosecutors' union reached a bizarre crescendo this w...

The ongoing debate over what kinds of political campaign communications are protected by the First Amendment continues to ensn...

The U.S. Supreme Court weighed Wednesday the question of whether the names of those who supported a petition calling for a ref...

A civil rights attorney said the Los Angeles Sheriff Department's Office of Independent Review outed her to deputies as the so...

Tim Tosta of Luce Forward acknowledges that, in one way or another, all the greats stood on the shoulders of someone or someth...

Robin Barnes examines the role and nature of privacy in Western democracies and discusses some of the legal battles celebritie...

Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says Arizona's immigration law unconstitutionally criminalizes "walking while ...

San Diego-based Sempra Energy will pay $400 million to settle claims stemming from the energy crisis earlier this decade in an...

The justices said a trial judge should get a second chance to decide whether a First Amendment violation was cured when Congre...

While judges can reach correct decisions on the value of digital evidence, they are at the mercy of "experts" when it comes to...

In its only environmental case of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court Monday reviewed a San Francisco judge's decision to impose ...

From extending loans to hiring receivers, lenders seek to avoid taking ownership of failed development projects with future ...

Most people know there is a big difference between licensed and unlicensed contractors. ...

In our first-ever section devoted to the real estate practice, we track an uptick an transaction work. There are also articl...

Judge will decide whether a $1.7 billion payment is due to the state prior to the May 10 deadline. ...

Reed Smith attorneys represented Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems in one of the largest sales of wind turb...

Shartsis Friese corporate partner Derek Wilson led a team of lawyers that represented Maytag Corp. heir Fritz Maytag in his sa...

After being threatened with a lawsuit by state Attorney General Jerry Brown Jr.'s office, San Bernardino County's Board of Sup...

With judges debating over unpublished appellate opinions, Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School explains why it's deja vu all ove...

This week, the judge in a closely watched lawsuit seeking to overturn a law barring people who are openly gay from serving in ...

After more than a decade cooperating with federal prosecutors in their securities fraud case against former executives of McKe...

In a win for the plaintiffs' bar, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled for shareholders Tuesday in a major class action securities fra...

Steve Butler of Pension Dynamics says there is a unique retirement plan variation that can grease the skids of an exit strateg...

A Northern California judge accused of abusing his position by ordering a man to stay away from credit union employees he'd un...

In the long run, broader rules on publication and permissive citation to unpublished cases will not make us happier, writes Ki...

A federal judge on Tuesday approved a $1.1 billion settlement between disability rights groups and the California Department o...

With Los Angeles facing tough times, new and renovated courthouses are important, but preserving access to justice comes first...