The problem with the new Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection, according to some sources, is that its focus on privacy...

Unaccompanied undocumented children must be treated the same as any other child seeking legal guardianship through the probate...

Cell phones are not containers that law enforcement officers can search when found in vehicles, a 9th Circuit panel held Thurs...

The strong winds and heavy rain in Northern California on Thursday forced the San Francisco federal courthouse to shut down wh...

A California attorney was sentenced Dec. 5 to 17 years in prison in the Southern District of Florida for facilitating a multi-...

Imagine you receive an email message from a friend (who happens to be a judge) affirming your friendship and professional achi...

The National Labor Relations Board ruled Thursday that employees can use work email for union communications. The decision in ...

The state Supreme Court is issuing a lot fewer decisions than a decade ago, with the decline driven by a drop in civil opinion...

Most people assume that an environmental law is meant to improve the environment. But in the case of one aspect of the Califor...

Electronic discovery received much attention in 2014 from the courts, agencies and bar associations across the country. By Vig...

Current Associate Corporate Counsel and Corporate Secretary Lynne P. McGhee will become California Water Service Group's first...

The court will allow employees to have five floating holidays starting January after a strike in October. ...

But being outnumbered is nothing new for small outfit Samini Scheinberg PC. The six-attorney firm has faced off against some o...

Allen Matkins hosts holiday reception ...

Americans for Prosperity challenged Kamala Harris' authority to revoke its tax-exempt status for refusing to turn over the don...

In one case, the justices will be asking how far the state can go to limit seawall construction on the California coast. In th...

Albert Dover hails from Nevada County - the heart of gold country - and many lawyers said he is, like his adopted hometown, th...

Ventura County Superior Court should have allowed an evidentiary hearing over whether to disqualify a prosecutor in a high-pro...

A massive surge in popularity enjoyed by CrossFit Inc. over the past several years has also led to another major increase for ...

In an attempt to speed the removal of lead from aviation fuel, a California nonprofit on Wednesday announced it had settled a ...

Both new and veteran online marketplaces may see an uptick in legal complaints from increasingly frustrated counterfeiting vic...

When the president took action to grant temporary relief from deportation to up to 6 million people living in the U.S., he was...

The 31-year-old blanket ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men makes no scientific sense, if ever it did, and serves...

Intellectual property strategies for wearables encompass approaching the devices from all sides: considering IP inside and out...

Stephen H. Beecher will be sentenced in January for trying to give his client a card containing heroin. The Sherman Oaks attor...

A vote to confirm longtime Silicon Valley lawyer Michelle K. Lee as the new permanent director of the U.S. Patent and Trademar...

A new report by Ernst & Young outlined the successes of U.S. initial public offerings in 2014, characterizing the year as ...

As an en banc appeals panel reviews Cindy Garcia's injunction against Google for "The Innocence of Muslims," different views e...

The 2007 subprime mortgage crisis pummeled junior lenders whose second liens went from above to below water almost instantaneo...

A former State Bar president and two superior court judges won unanimous approval to serve on state courts of appeal in San Fr...