Speaking to a group of judges in their first public meeting, leaders of the new Blue Ribbon Commission on the Future of the Co...

The State Bar is exploring whether to sell its San Francisco headquarters building in the suddenly high-priced South of Market...

The Daily Journal held a reception Sept. 9 in Beverly Hills to honor California's leading 100 lawyers. The event drew a crowd ...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented Westlake Village-based digital marketing company Conversant Inc. in its $2.3 billi...

A federal appellate court on Monday appeared ready to uphold water pumping limits from the Sacramento San Joaquin River delta ...

A Silicon Valley entrepreneur and founder of Electronic Arts Inc. can absolve more than $20 million of his debts to the Intern...

Dhillon & Smith LLP, a nine-attorney firm based in San Francisco which was founded by Harmeet K. Dhillon, vice chair of th...

Craig Holden, the new State Bar president, said the agency should go beyond regulation. ...

In a sign that renewable energy is gaining an ever-stronger foothold on the economy, more and more solar and wind developers a...

The country saw a jump of about 4,300 prisoners from 2012, bringing last year's total to 1,574,700 inmates in state and federa...

A lawsuit claiming Netflix Inc. and Amazon.com Inc. blacklisted a former executive has fizzled out, as a Los Angeles County ju...

Michael Popkins wanted to be an actor, but now hears felonies as a San Diego County judge.

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Entertainment lawyers say the Adam Carolla case included fairly novel legal terrain, namely assessing each member's monetary v...

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For 40 years, I was privileged to be a part of the ACLU. By Mark Rosenbaum ...

Mamet wrote that "Race, like sex, is a subject on which it is near impossible to tell the truth." The truth about this "Race" ...

A court recently upheld a jury verdict against a professor claiming that his employer, a university, violated the state Fair E...

A federal district judge recently found that BP was "grossly negligent" in its role in the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill. T...

Divvying the litigants a dose of procedural whiplash, a court recently confessed it changed its mind regarding a legal matter ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has wrought a great deal of change in general jurisdiction recently, all while deciding two painfully e...

Former California legislator and Nossaman LLP partner John F. Foran died Thursday at the age of 84. ...

Joanne M. Garvey, who broke a staggering number of glass ceilings by holding positions that had never been occupied by a woman...

Heritage Oaks Bancorp announced last week the upcoming retirement of its vice president and general counsel. ...

U.S. District Judge Larry A. Burns, left, state Supreme Court Justice Marvin R. Baxter, and Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakau...

Small businesses might not know it, but a new law extending sick leave to all full-time workers could soon give them unpleasan...

The U.S. Supreme Court has had a love-hate relationship when it comes to drawing so-called "Fourth Amendment lines." ...

Michael Hestrin, who will take over in January, wants to apply the same diligence he used to prosecute cases to managing some ...

One of the state's landmark prison civil rights lawsuits has entered a new phase, with U.S. District Judge Kimberly Mueller ta...

Los Angeles Commissioner Alan Friedenthal is winning praise following a public admonishment.