The California Association of Workplace Investigators was launched in October as the first group of its kind in the nation, a...

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

The University of California, San Diego, and California Western School of Law have formed a joint committee to consider a part...

Funk musician Sly Stone filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday claiming a former manager withheld as much as $...

Prosecutors say that Vista Superior Court Judge Harry M. Elias is biased against them and should step down from a burglary cas...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved the nomination of Andre Birotte Jr. Thursday to become the U.S. attorney in Los Angeles.

East Bay Law School, an unaccredited school in Oakland that came under scrutiny late last year and was shut down in December u...

On Thursday, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger announced appointments to Orange, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Santa Barbara and Madera co...

Sean Riordan was touched by the plight of African refugees a decade ago. A two-year fellowship brought him to the ACLU in San ...

Do you want fries with that pole dance? That's the kind of question you'll get at a San Bernardino strip club that has been mi...

A judge on Thursday urged the Securities and Exchange Commission to drop its civil fraud complaint against four Broadcom execu...

Debt-burdened movie studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer is staring down the barrel of a twice-extended loan payment due Sunday, but is ...

San Bernandino county officials exonerated District Attorney Michael Ramos of claims by a female investigator that he retaliat...

Advocates have filed a class action against the city and county of Los Angeles that seeks to force local officials to formally...

Palo Alto-based Morgan, Lewis & Bockius lawyers helped the electric vehicle servicer Better Place secure a $350 million ro...

None of the California Supreme Court justices took kindly to the suggestion Wednesday that rape victims should be forced to cr...

In a reversal that could bolster other cases, a state court of appeal has revived a hotly watched class action against Kaiser ...

The trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8 drew to a close Wednesday, and, to mark the occasion, Chief Judge Vaughn...

Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati sent a memo to its non-partner lawyers Monday announcing 2009 yea...

Robert Page, Grace Brown and Jessica Vapnek of DPK Consulting work towards reconstructing Haiti’s justice sector after the dev...

Eli Noam of Columbia University explores the debate behind use of antitrust in media markets.

A quirky trademark fight between two companies, both calling themselves Sand Hill Advisors, has ended with a victory by, uh, S...

With the government threatening to raise income taxes, Dana Hollinger of the Dana Goldinger Group says take every opportunity ...

The California Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Wednesday to Wal-Mart and other developers whose projects are delayed by late-...

Citing personal problems, Ventura County Superior Court Judge William Brennan Lynch resigned from the bench Friday, just 24 da...

Sidley Austin has been on a Northern California hiring spree as of late, netting the prominent intellectual property litigator...

The long-running feud between attorney Cyrus Sanai and judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has led to an official ...

Gareth Evans and Farrah Pepper of Gibson Dunn examine a new federal opinion that redefines document preservation and collectio...

An environmental group launched a major assault against state forestry officials as well as the state's largest timber company...

Lei Lei Wang Ekvall, who helped start a clinic in Orange County to help poor people filing bankruptcy without a lawyer, became...