An amicus brief filed this week by the state's top labor official in the biggest employment case on the California Supreme Cou...

It is time for California's courts to establish some form of "inactive docket" to conserve limited resources while maintaining...

The state Supreme Court adopted a new rule of professional conduct that requires attorneys to inform most clients, in writing,...

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

Jessica Glynn hits the books between classes in UCI Law’s new library. Like each of her classmates, Glynn will have the benefi...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision on ethical impropriety in state judicial elections could cast its shadow over a major cam...

No matter how poignant or tragic the victims of exposure to toxic chemicals, lack of causation often dooms their cases, writes...

A movie production company has sued Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, along with a firm associate, for allegedly fraudulently tra...

A civil bench trial is slated to begin in Pasadena today to settle a dispute between a Temple City woman who owed $25,000 on ...

Pre-emption is a significant issue in environmental law, writes James M. Sabovich. ...

Solano County's district attorney and one of his investigators were found liable by a jury for retaliation against a bail bond...

Current efforts to reform the justice system provide the backdrop for "Arbitrary Justice: The Power of the American Prosecuto...

Henry Weinstein is a professor of the practice of law at UC Irvine School of Law. He was a staff writer at the Los Angeles Tim...

The California Supreme Court declined Wednesday to wade into the politically charged debate over state budgets and tax increas...

A mystery email helped Del Mar attorneys secure a whopping verdict for their client in an age discrimination case against Kmar...

Federal agents investigating steroid use in major league baseball misused search warrants and subpoenas to wrongly seize playe...

Readers weigh in on coverage of the Judicial Council and a candidate for the federal bench.

Jim Gash, an associate professor at Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu and associate dean for student life, gave up...

Lawrence P. Best left his commissioner's seat in 1997 to return to work as a prosecutor, but this time around he's ready to st...

Maria Rodriguez, a longtime advocate for minority women's rights and Senior Council for Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, died on...

Adam Brauner grew up in Anchorage, Alaska, before earning a degree in economics from Georgetown University in Washington, D.C....

Students at the UCI School of Law are taking courses such as "Common Law Analysis" and "Statutory Analysis" but some still cal...

The 'Bilski' case provides a good example of how amicus briefing can provide a court with resources that two parties alone pro...

The 9th Circuit recently took its first foray into what a plaintiff must show to establish a whistleblower claim under the Sar...

Public officials shouldn't be able to subvert the Public Records Act simply by using private e-mail accounts, writes Peter Sch...

Georgene Vairo asks: When it comes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, who should be allowed to make changes: the Supreme...

It is important for the parties in a patent license agreement to expressly address which third parties are covered and not cov...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel's decision to overturn a former technology company chief executive's options backdat...

A San Joaquin County murder conviction was thrown out Tuesday because the doctor who performed the autopsy was not allowed to ...

Derek Rockers went to China for nine weeks earlier this summer, becoming only the second American, and first lawyer, to take p...