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...

A former manager for Bratz doll manufacturer MGA Entertainment told jurors Tuesday that the company had decided to market the ...

In a system that espouses the hope of reformation, it makes no sense to rely exclusively on the one thing that cannot change d...

A proposed settlement in the litigation over California's crowded prisons does not include the early release of prisoners, alt...

Convicted sleuth Anthony Pellicano had a private hearing before a federal judge Tuesday, and their discussion will remain betw...

Henry T. Nicholas III, the 6-foot-6 billionaire engineer and former Broadcom CEO, spent several hours in the Santa Ana federal...

For years, strict privacy laws in California have put a virtual padlock on patients' medicine cabinets. Now, state lawmakers a...

The State Bar's process for revising its code of professional conduct has flown under the radar of many attorneys. ...

Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Einstein, 1924-2008, died Monday morning in Long Beach after a long ill...

Is a SAG deal imminent? Not likely. Instead, we may be sliding toward another Hollywood work stoppage, writes Jonathan Handel....

In the 1970s, U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte moved to San Jose from Southern California in part to get out from under the...

Chicago-based Chapman and Cutler has nabbed a public finance partner from Nixon Peabody.

Melvyn I. Weiss, the class-action lawyer who represented Holocaust survivors, aggrieved investors and other victims with great...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid by a Beverly Hills-based erotic-photo publisher that sought to hold Visa and Mast...

Citing a landmark ruling last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, a San Francisco federal judge has invalidated three Stanford Uni...