The owner of the pro basketball team will pay a record $2.7 million to settle claims he refused to rent to minorities and fami...

Prosecutors want the state Supreme Court to given then wider latitude to use DNA evidence to extend the statute of limitations...

K.C. Victor of Victor Legal Solutions explains why entrepreneurial lawyers should join mid-sized firms during recessionary times.

For law school career counselors, the realization is setting in: This school year marks the beginning of the never-ending recr...

When is a recusal not a recusal? That's the question the state Supreme Court is considering in a situation where a judge disqu...

The state High Court appears unlikely to strike down sex offender residency restrictions, but some justices expressed concern ...

The arrival of a new judge on the Bratz vs. Barbie case prompted MGA Entertainment to try to keep its dolls on store shelves n...

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Jeffrey Carr, Patrick Lamb, Patrick McKenna and Edwin Reeser say fix firm compensation models to fuel value focused legal deli...

The U.S. Supreme Court asked the Obama administration to weigh in on an Arizona law that requires employers to check the immig...

Nathan J. Hochman of Bingham McCutchen provides insight on what it takes to obtain a prosecutorial declination of tax charges.

In a victory for business Monday, the state Supreme Court said there's nothing wrong with paying employees in forfeited stock ...

Stewart Kwoh and Karin Wang of Asian Pacific American Legal Center write on the significance of the Hate Crimes Prevention Act...

The state could save $100 million a year by putting court security contracts out to bid, rather than hiring each county's sher...

Lawyers fighting sanctions for failing to disclose documents in a patent suit against Broadcom Corp. said Monday that client Q...

Christina Kotowski of Fisher & Phillips examines Nein v. HostPro, Inc. and how to ironclad commission plans to pass the test.

Long-simmering tensions between Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley and the head of the prosecutors union has en...

The first full week of William J. Ruehle's stock option backdating trial ended on a searing note, as prosecutors revealed the ...

The Studio City man embezzled $1.4 million from two clients. He was sentenced to three years' probation and eight months' home...

Thomas E. Perez, the new head of the U.S. Justice Department's civil rights division, talks about redistricting, immigration a...

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices seemed reluctant Monday to encourage judges to intervene in the fight over excessive...

Several major movie studios have made moves to shore up falling DVD sales - but are they courting antitrust complaints in the ...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

A court-appointed receiver for California's prison system isn't immune from lawsuits for failing to pay an outside contractor,...

Richard Kellner and Alfredo Torrijos of Kabateck Brown Kellner peel back the layers of conflict surrounding Proposition 64.

Stewart Levine of Resolution Works portrays how two brothers, caught in a family business dispute, successfully reached an agr...

A former vice president at HBO & Co. left a U.S. courtroom Friday near tears after testifying in a criminal securities fra...

The San Diego County Board of Supervisors is set to consider building a $660 million, 17-story complex to replace the Superior...

The idea of electronic court recorders attracted renewed attention during a legislative watchdog hearing on spending by the st...

The son of a couple murdered in 2006 has asked a Contra Costa County judge to let him tell a jury why his parents' convicted k...