Three justices were confirmed to California's 2nd District Court of Appeal this week. ...

Heller Ehrman partner and intellectual property litigator Jessica R. Wolff is leaving the firm's San Diego office today for Co...

In probate disputes, Los Angeles mediator Paul Fisher works with parties to find common ground. ...

Web Exclusive - A federal court judge will be considering a proposed settlement regulating the number of immigrant detainees h...

Federal prosecutors unsealed two indictments Thursday against Henry T. Nicholas III, the Orange County billionaire and ex-Broa...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday vindicated five years of work by government officials trying to restore the environme...

Self-described shock artist Ira Isaacs - who makes and distributes movies showing bestiality and scatological sex acts - will ...

Judge Robert D. Quall's good deeds didn't go unpunished. ...

Latham grabbed a capital markets partner from Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York.

The candidates were diverse, but one thing seemed to unify judicial elections in the Bay Area this week: close calls. ...

An attorney trying to convince a judge to dismiss the Securities and Exchange Commission's backdating complaint against KLA-Te...

The one incumbent Orange County Superior Court judge challenged in Tuesday's election easily squashed his opponent, while thre...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has authority under emergency powers to relieve overcrowding in California's prisons by ordering th...

Mike Aguirre, the activist incumbent San Diego city attorney, will be fighting to retain his job Nov. 4, against San Diego Cou...

California voters passed a new eminent domain law by an impressive 62 percent margin Tuesday, but land use lawyers say it will...

Although demurrers and motions to strike are similar in several respects, the two procedures are not used in the same way, wri...

Serious questions have been raised about the Bay Area Air Quality Management District's authority to issue a rule regulating g...

Despite recent steps in the right direction, the state's health insurance system still puts the onus on the sick, vulnerable p...

No matter what the reason for resisting discovery, motions to compel include requests for sanctions. Not to be outdone, respon...

Two veteran prosecutors will don robes after winning contested judicial elections in Riverside and San Bernardino counties Tue...

The author of a 23-year-old proposed constitutional amendment retroactively repealing U.S. citizenship for non-whites has lost...

Web Exclusive - A federal court judge will be considering a proposed settlement regulating the number of immigrant detainees h...

Same-sex wedding bells can chime starting at 5 p.m. June 16, as the California Supreme Court announced Wednesday that its hist...

Cindee Mayfield has a reputation for championing more services for the people - defendants or divorcing parents - who come thr...

Could private equity be making a comeback?

The cases were overwhelming. Hundreds of evictions, thousands of citations and countless arrests. Stroock & Lavan's Debora...

The dean of UC Berkeley's Haas School of Business is set to join Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher in July.

The state Supreme Court is ready to settle once and for all whether businesses can put narrow restrictions on the career moves...

Plaintiffs suing Metrolink for wrongful death and personal injury over a multiple-fatality 2005 train crash in Glendale lost o...

As the public becomes duly alarmed over the projected disastrous worldwide impacts of unchecked global warming, regulatory pro...