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

The Obama administration could annul the legal rights of Chrysler LLC's consumers and creditors by distorting bankruptcy laws,...

In a victory for high-tech worker rights, a federal judge has ruled that a clause in a semiconductor company's contract assert...

Many small and mid-sized businesses do not know enough about the California WARN Act and simply are not considering it when im...

What use is the court system if ICE agents can snatch an immigrant even as his matter is being heard before the judge, asks Pa...

Consumer Attorneys of California President Christine D. Spagnoli asks: Shuttering the courts one day a month will be painful, ...

The Court of Appeal recently provided a substantial step forward in promoting clear guidelines on when a foreign corporation c...

An attorney for Hollywood studios battling the Seattle-based company RealNetworks in federal court over a controversial DVD co...

More than 100 former Lawrence Livermore National Lab employees filed an age discrimination lawsuit in Alameda County Superior ...

Mediator Pierre-Richard Prosper says he is seeing success in the negotiations to settle the long-running and contentious intel...

At least three immigrants were arrested inside downtown Los Angeles immigration courts minutes before they were scheduled to a...

A special judicial committee has completed its misconduct investigation of Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th Circuit in a l...

The Obama administration is stepping up its efforts to appoint a new U.S. Supreme Court justice by approaching two more judges...

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

Bad timing, strategy and voter enmity sank Jack Weiss' campaign for city attorney. ...

Riverside county judge cuts tension of felony courtroom with a little lighthearted humor. ...

Cindy and Steve Hailey's case is the first in which a jury will weigh whether Blue Shield of California was wrong to rescind t...

If the high court grants the petition in Alfriend v. State Bar, it will abdicate 82 years of egalitarian ideals that have prot...

U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco sentenced Emile Fort, who was one of the first defendants to face a death p...

After five budget-related ballot measures went down in flames on Tuesday, district attorney's offices throughout the state sai...

Part of the stimulus bill provides for a federal subsidy covering 65 percent of the COBRA premium for certain people who are e...

Columnist Martin Berg writes about Keith Rohman, a private investigator who has worked a wide beat, from death penalty cases a...

With its newly unveiled emissions restrictions, the Obama administration proved it's serious about environmental policymaking ...

California lawyers are being categorically denied bar admission in other states because of segregationist licensing rules, wri...

Attorneys representing an ex-Marine who served 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit want to use the grand jury's f...

The California justice community abhors closing the state's courts. But with $245 million in budget cuts on the table, the var...

Santa Clara County Counsel Ann Ravel will reportedly oversee the U.S. Justice Department's civil division torts branch and the...

Trial lawyer Pierce O'Donnell pleaded no contest to state court allegations that he made illegal campaign contributions to Jam...

President Barack Obama broke sharply from Bush administration policy Wednesday by announcing his administration will not insis...

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