Tuesday's U.S. Supreme Court decision allowing traffic stops based solely on an anonymous tip drew sharp criticism from crimin...

In a lengthy battle against the use of jailhouse informants, an Orange County prosecutor said the office would not use an info...

For Earth Day, the head of the Governor's Office of Planning and research opens up about greenhouse gas emissions, energy stor...

On April 15, the Department of Public Health submitted a final regulation calling for a maximum contaminant level for hexavale...

The public trust doctrine stems from a legal fiction of public "ownership" of navigable waters. By Russell M. McGlothlin and S...

Some properties that are now posing "vapor intrusion" risks were once thought to be cleaned up. By Brian E. Moskal and Sedina ...

The EPA's efforts to regulate certain types of wastes as hazardous wastes - some decades in the making - are starting to see t...

After years of ups and downs, in March the California Department of Toxic Substances Control finally began the process of fina...

No longer confined to science fiction, the prospect of reviving extinct species - known as "de-extinction" - could present nov...

Susan T. Taylor, former assistant GC of The Presidio Trust, a corporation designed to manage and protect San Francisco's histo...

Friends remembered Los Angeles litigator Henry Shields Jr., Irell & Manella's first black partner, as a charismatic yet sc...

Los Angeles-based Pom Wonderful went to the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday to argue that beverage giant Coca-Cola misleadingly l...

While Mayer Brown won't discuss its motivation for taking the case, some legal observers say it's curious that a firm would ta...

A proposal to prohibit judges from participating in the Boy Scouts because of its discriminatory policies against gays and les...

As sparks fly in the race for San Diego's top prosecutor, candidates have leveled stinging accusations that raise questions ab...

Irvine-based financial services firm First Foundation Inc. tapped Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC to help guide its pla...

In a further effort to reduce the federal prison population and scale back severe mandatory minimum sentences, Attorney Genera...

Under U.S. law, it is a crime to refuse a blood test but not under California law. ...

Resistance to the county's efforts to curb groundwater use raises the question of how much power local governments have over t...

Music expert Eric Harmon, once a rugby star, finds the transition easy as an LA County judge.

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Although the total is still small, the number of full-time, long-term jobs requiring bar exam passage that are funded by law s...

General Counsel for Idealab Pasadena ...

How the state high court answers questions about California's "suitable-seating" requirement may have class action consequence...

After filing an insurance claim, it is not uncommon for an insured to receive unfair treatment from the claims adjuster assign...

Recent decisions show courts' reluctance to find TCPA liability where businesses send texts to customers who voluntarily provi...

After 10 months without a chief legal and regulatory officer, Mountain View-based personalized health company 23andMe Inc. hir...

David Huebner, who was the ambassador to New Zealand and Samoa, will handle international arbitration and security matters in ...

In another chapter relating to one of the state's biggest government corruption cases, Upland reached a $4.7 million settlemen...

San Francisco-based online file storage company Dropbox Inc. tapped longstanding counsel at Fenwick & West LLP to handle a...