A special committee of independent directors at Irvine-based real estate investment trust Griffin-American Healthcare REIT II ...

Graduates of a pair of San Francisco law schools faced a healthy amount of skepticism Tuesday from a judge over whether their ...

While the suits may sound like a loser for the business community, the actions of a few attorneys across the state also concer...

Financial institutions have been pelted with a number of lawsuits from their small business clients in recent years after hack...

The state high court was right to reverse a death sentence due to juror misconduct, but it should have taken the opportunity t...

Here's the trailer: John Travolta is currently embroiled in litigation that provides a lesson about California's anti-SLAPP st...

An in-home health care worker who suffered severe injuries at the hands of her elderly Alzheimer's patient cannot sue the pati...

Private mortgage insurance company National Mortgage Insurance Corp. announced Friday the appointment of its new general couns...

Law enforcement's misuse of jailhouse informants in Orange County was serious misconduct but not malicious, a judge has ruled....

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles was too quick to boot out of court a lawyer and her son by declaring them v...

Last Tuesday FedEx pleaded not guilty to charges in an indictment which raises significant questions about a private party's r...

A rare claim that tests a lender's ability to levy nearly 100 percent interest rates on its customers has cleared a path for t...

A 9th Circuit panel seemed inclined to overrule a district court judge who remanded a class action to state court allegedly co...

Criminal judge Ramona Garrett pays special attention to the psychological causes of crime.

Supervising judge Gregory A. Syren spent more than two decades with the public defender's office.

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Judge Steve White has stood up to judiciary leaders as head of the Alliance of California Judges.

Some 600 attorneys in law firms throughout the state are donating their time to assist in the immigration crisis. More than 3,...

General Counsel of Roku Inc. Saratoga ...

The San Francisco bench is lucky to still have Judge McBride, whether he's mellowed out or not. By Adrian Ivancevich ...

Detained individuals enjoy a full Sixth Amendment right to counsel and to have (and thus prepare for) a fair trial. By Melissa...

Two aspects of the decision - the scope of an allowable search warrant and cloud storage - are bound to give life to Riley for...

With advances in technology, changes in the moral zeitgeist and the increasing political polarization of our country, there ar...

City can't use money to revamp its convention center, home to annual Comic-Con conference that has threatened to leave the tow...

There is still ambiguity about whether state peace officers can return seized medical marijuana to defendants after a criminal...

A line of appellate decisions that put into question the way many mandatory state bars collect lawyer dues to pay for their po...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP helped San Francisco-based game developer Kabam Inc. secure $120 million strategic investment from A...

Recent employment figures at the state and national level indicate that legal services have reached a new level of relative st...

Bankruptcy filings dropped dramatically in California last year, showcasing a rebounding economy, but also less work for attor...

Last week's ruling on the state's high speed rail set the project's opponents back in a big way. The 3rd District Court of App...