Well-known liberal constitutional scholar Erwin Chemerinsky apparently is too controversial for conservative Orange County. ...

A federal judge ruled Wednesday Vermont can adopt California-style rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, reject...

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

With a level head and years of experience in family law, San Luis Obispo Commissioner Patrick J. Perry has been on top of thin...

Santa Clara-based software company McAfee has hired Mark Cochran as general counsel and executive vice president to replace Ke...

LOS ANGELES - The amount of a pesticide inhaled in a year by Nicaraguan men who worked on banana plantations is 1,000 times l...

It's a district attorney's worst nightmare: A witness seeks protection to testify against a violent and vengeful gang only to ...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County Superior Court appellate panel has reinstated an indecent-exposure charge against a woman for d...

Forum Column - By Claire Wright - Heavy Canadian subsidies are driving American film productions over the border in droves and...

August lived up to its reputation as a slow deal-making month, with the top 10 deals totalling $4.5 billion, a quarter of July...

Letters - I write on behalf of the chief justice and the six associate justices of the California Supreme Court to correct sev...

Five years ago, federal judges figured out a way to create a level playing field in the competition to hire the best and brigh...

SACRAMENTO - Christopher Bray woke up one morning to find a $45 parking ticket stuffed under the windshield wiper of his 2001 ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Attorney General Jerry Brown and a major refiner Tuesday announced what Brown called the first-ever agreement ...

Focus Column - By Thomas H. Clarke Jr. - Should water providers be held just as liable as polluters when it comes to impuritie...

As both a lawyer and a real estate agent, Jeffrey Berns was more than qualified to answer his father’s questions about a loan ...

LOS ANGELES — County officials and child advocates are scrambling to ensure that hundreds of adoptions performed this year are...

Kathleen M. Sullivan, the constitutional scholar and former dean of Stanford Law School, is being dispatched to New York to bo...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lured corporate and securities attorney Karen Dreyfus to the firm's Palo Alto office from...

The pesticide used by Dole Food on banana plantations in Nicaragua contains one of the most toxic chemicals known to science, ...

Forum Column - By David T. Bristow - Short-term Band-Aids are inadequate to combat the real long-term challenges posed to the ...

PALO ALTO - California's top air pollution regulator has taken a swipe at the state's chief law enforcement officer, suggestin...

LOS ANGELES - Services will take place Saturday in San Diego for Senior U.S. District Judge John S. Rhoades. The federal judg...

RIVERSIDE - A Riverside County jury Monday convicted a reputed Crips gang member of being the getaway driver in a jewelry stor...

Forum Column - By William H. Neukom - What does the president of the American Bar Association want states to trade in exchange...

Focus Column - By Charles S. Doskow - A lawsuit by a fair housing organization against an online roommate finder raises the qu...

Deals Column - By Jason Song - Any deal involving a Peruvian company is bound to be complicated. But throw in a Korean seller,...

A divided federal appeals court on Monday turned away explosive claims of juror misconduct and upheld a 1979 death sentence fo...

Breaking up can be hard to do, especially if your significant other has a good patent attorney. ...

SACRAMENO — Bowing to pressure from Assembly Democrats, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has agreed to make public the names of comm...