Though it's understandable legislators want to protect homeowners from predators, two proposed bills would throw the baby out ...

An appellate court has made short work of a construction company's complaints against the mandatory arbitration program for re...

A federal court of appeal has cleared the way for a class action lawsuit against immigration officials over prolonged detentio...

In a move that could have statewide impact, San Diego landlords will be getting immediate relief, following a decision Tuesday...

Relations between judges and the Administrative Office of the Courts have grown even rockier after Chief Justice Ronald M. Geo...

As the search for a new U.S. attorney in the Northern District of California narrows to three people, speculation has turned t...

Readers weigh in on Caltrans' legal foot-dragging and the order to reduce the California prison population.

Two producers who own the rights to the "Terminator" franchise filed for bankruptcy protection in Los Angeles on Monday, listi...

As San Diego's Accredited Home Lenders seeks to end two years of shareholder litigation, it has stumbled on obstacles that may...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a California law Wednesday that was designed to help heirs of Holocaust vict...

Authors of recent bills that top 1,000 pages should be reminded that the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence woul...

Proposed SEC regulations on proxy rules are bound to create additional burdens for mid-tier public companies, write Cathryn S....

New carbon-trading platforms give companies more incentive than ever to strive toward "carbon-neutral" status, write Anita Cho...

The state Supreme Court recently clarified the concept of self-defense when it comes to insurance coverage claims, writes Phil...

San Francisco's Heller Ehrman sued a former client Wednesday for unpaid legal fees, marking the first such lawsuit the firm ha...

Even as he rejected bids by several organizations to join a case challenging the constitutionality of California's same-sex ma...

Two very distinct pictures of a former pharmaceutical chief executive emerged Tuesday as prosecutors and defense attorneys gav...

Given the rising prevalence of cloud computing, businesses should audit their data processing functions, writes David D. Johns...

Most Los Angeles County courts will be closed Wednesday , the second of 12 planned monthly furloughs to help offset a projecte...

In recent decisions involving the Securities Litigation Uniform Standards Act, federal district and appellate courts have not ...

Despite its economic woes, the Administrative Office of the Courts gave new judges attending a recent two-week training the ch...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer says he finds the argumentative banter of the lawyers in his San Francisco courtroom 'in...

A new federal report found 104 immigrants have died in custody since 2004, 10 more than was previously known. ...

In a setback for the government's crackdown on white-collar crime, a federal appellate panel Tuesday reversed former Brocade C...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe advised First Solar in a 20-year power purchase deal with Southern California Edison.

Traditionally, a person who wished to keep infringing products out of the U.S. could obtain either a limited or general exclus...

Fraud! Eavesdropping! Secret Russian conversations! It may sound like the plot of a James Bond movie, but it's a real-life ca...

A trio of bills aimed at creating political pressure to increase the rights of the gay community passed through the state Asse...

The prison panel's order to release 40,000 California inmates is a stunning example of judicial overreach, writes David A. DeG...

Judge Gary S. Paer's innovative - and compassionate - treatment of jurors is aimed at creating a "user-friendly courtroom" whe...