The Port of Los Angeles could eventually impose radical new labor requirements on the trucking industry even if a federal judg...

Randall Spencer discusses the U.S. Supreme Court's rejection of any attempt to restrict the availability of class actions in f...

Private providers who treat developmentally disabled children and teenagers are the latest to sue California officials to reve...

On April 19, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in City of Ontario v. Quon. Bryce Besser of Brown Law Group wri...

The potential for larger awards has lead to an uptick in false marking suits, creating a new tension for manufacturers of prod...

The law firm of the future - or at least the future the legal industry appears headed toward at the moment - might be found in...

Kristina Lawson of Miller Starr & Regalia says the unprecedented global crisis has dried up financing for development proj...

The San Francisco intellectual property firm Townsend and Townsend and Crew is rumored to be in serious merger talks with Kilp...

The California Supreme Court might craft explicit rules allowing government agencies to hire outside counsel on a contingency ...

A dozen cities in California are poised to pounce on an array of investment and commercial banks that allegedly bilked taxpaye...

Inmates at Los Angeles County's main jail for men are routinely subject to savage beatings - often at the hands of the facilit...

Judge Leslie A. Dunn of Van Nuys is willing to make tough decisions, even if that means dismissing charges against a criminal...

After years of sluggish growth and growing pains, the trend of no-frills health clinics in big-box and other retail stores is ...

Judge Charlotte W. Woolard enjoys the variety of cases and legal issues that come in and out of her busy law-and-motion courtr...

The American Bar Association has decided to go ahead with its Equal Justice Conference, scheduled for next week in Arizona-but...

The Americans With Disabilities Act does not require California cities to keep medical marijuana dispensaries open, a federal ...

Although the UCI School of Law is no longer brand new and though its 100-percent scholarships, which went to all students in t...

The San Mateo County district attorney's office is working out a deal with attorneys for tech blog Gizmodo and its editor Jaso...

Santa Cruz County Superior Court is publicly talking about laying off a big chunk of its workforce this summer. ...

With another 32 million individuals added to the system, Paul DeMuro of Latham & Watkins explains what healthcare reform w...

A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the state was justified when it took more than $2 billion from Cal...

Eligibility for veterans court programs should be based on whether a service-related mental health disorder was at the root of...

Three years after shuttering Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in Watts, Los Angeles County is picking up the pace toward...

Bryan Liang and Tim Mackey of California Western School of Law say healthcare reform is focused on cost control and use of acc...

EFF is stepping into a legal battle between Facebook and aggregator Power Ventures, arguing that Facebook's lawsuit alleging v...

Because of divergent viewpoints about the definition of terrorism, there currently is no internationally agreed upon anti-terr...

Merger talks have fizzled between San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's SJ Berwin, according to an e...

Mark Phillips of Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach says recent cases indicate a new flexibility on the part of courts when deal...

With patents for blockbuster drugs nearing expiration, big pharmaceutical companies are looking beyond the drugs that built th...

On the heels of a scandal over the checkered past of disgraced crime lab technician Deborah Madden, San Francisco District Att...