Areva Martin of Martin & Martin says the plan to eliminate the use of private banks for government subsidized student loan...

A man who claims to have been duped by video game retailer GameStop has sued the company, accusing it of advertising supposedl...

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a city ordinance prohibiting the solicitation of funds at Los Ang...

A Web site that lets you air out your differences anonymously and receive third party feedback may be a useful dispute resolut...

With April 15 fast approaching, watch out for these tax preparer mistakes, writes David Howard of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appe...

Rules that make it harder to send freed California inmates back to prison for alleged parole violations survived the state's c...

The White House nominated Melinda L. Haag to be the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California yesterday, as h...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Plaintiffs' attorneys are hoping to persuade a federal judge today that Charles Schwab broke the law when it increased a fund'...

Washington, D.C.-based Arent Fox plans to open a Northern California office initially focusing on intellectual property law an...

Make a conscious effort to overcome bias since our brains are hardwired to distrust those not like us, write Max Factor III of...

Michael Carroll, Joel Mack, Jared Johnson and Marc Campopiano of Latham & Watkins advise on the draft "renewable electrici...

The price of settling securities fraud class action lawsuits rose more than 27 percent on average in 2009 over the previous ye...

Associate Justice Carlos R. Moreno of the California Supreme Court on Wednesday explained the sly strategy used to persuade Go...

Los Angeles County will repay prosecutors who were charged extra for health care premiums because they were union members in l...

Senate Republicans blocked a hearing Wednesday for UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu's nomination to the 9th U.S...

More than 65,000 state employees affected by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's furloughs can immediately return to work on the days...

Jason de Bretteville of Sullivan & Cromwell explores the relevance of evidence of economic coercion as a defense to the Fo...

Judge Maureen Duffy-Lewis and Daniel Garrie of ARC say technology has made the discovery process far less human. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday took up the complex issue of whether a company can sue in federal court for alleged damage to...

Preparing for the bar exam and its aftermath inflicts a lasting impression on all attorneys, Judge Ronald Tochterman (Ret.) sh...

The trial of KB Home's former chief executive for allegedly padding his income with backdated stock options moved into witness...

Even as 14 states teed off high-profile lawsuits seeking to overturn the historic, nearly trillion-dollar health care reform b...

Margaret "Midge" Costanza, presidential adviser, and social and political activist, died Tuesday after a battle with cancer. S...

Google Inc. can sell keyword advertising with brand names in Europe, according to a Tuesday ruling by the European Court of Ju...

An SEIU local branch and a splinter union fighting for representation of California health care workers faced off in San Franc...

At a time when ethnic and specialty bar groups are legion, the brand new Orange County Jewish Bar Association is unique in Cal...

The city of Hermosa Beach has asked the California Supreme Court to intervene in its long running legal battle with a company ...

San Francisco's judicial race is generating big money, with one candidate's coffers already above the $100,000 mark. ...

In a win for insurance companies, an appellate panel found that insurance carriers can take steps to protect their interests i...