The bankruptcy is a trial by fire for AB 506, which requires lengthy negotiations before cities may pursue protection through ...

California judges were disciplined less frequently during the years from 2000 to 2009 than in the previous decade, according t...

Internal Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP documents show efforts Citibank and the firm undertook to convince firm partners to take on l...

Commissioner James D. Endman, who never misses family dinner, brokers truces in family law court.

A San Francisco appellate court granted Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP's motion to dismiss a suit against the firm under Californi...

Santa Rosa lawyer Kevin Michael Healy should be disbarred and pay a former client $30,000, according to a ruling from the Stat...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP helped Beverly Hills developer Sonny Astani sell a long vacant downtown Los Angeles lot for ...

While building portfolio transactions slowed to a trickle in the wake of the real estate bust, lawyers say they're seeing a sl...

This month, California quietly shed an unwanted title - going from the largest prison system in the country to the second-larg...

Courts across the country are embracing the inevitable when it comes to eDiscovery. By Michele C.S. Lange of Kroll Ontrack ...

The AAA is more diverse than you think; more so than the national average. By Sasha A. Carbone of The American Arbitration Ass...

Larry C. Russ, a founding partner of Russ August & Kabat and co-owner of Los Angeles vintage clothing store American Rag C...

Madison Square Garden Co. purchased the Forum in Inglewood for $23.5 million on Tuesday. ...

Usually, it's up to the prevailing party when the clock starts for time to file an appeal. By Candace E. Kallberg of Manning &...

The Federal Circuit has held that the first part of the Seagate test should be decided by the trial judge as a matter o...

A $10 million settlement has been reached in a long-running contract dispute that saw a $612 million judgment vacated and rais...

Weaker protections for investors will, in the long run, make raising money more difficult because it erodes the essential lubr...

In-house lawyers say finding a long-term partner who understands the business can be difficult and that some outside counsel g...

Judge Cynthia Ming-mei Lee of San Francisco County Superior Court today won the title of presiding judge, according to emails ...

Mid-contract concessions by public employee unions are becoming increasingly common as government entities try to balance budg...

In a resounding victory for the federal Environmental Protection Agency, an appellate court has rejected a slew of suits from...

A complex civil veteran, Judge Ronald Prager has presided over some massive cases for decades.

The U.S. Supreme Court banned mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juvenile homicide offenders, granted environmental c...

The U.S. Supreme Court reigned in the possible spread of state or local immigration enforcement measures in California with a ...

An Illinois federal judge's rejection of an injunction in Apple Inc. 's patent infringement battles with Google Inc. 's Motoro...

Legislation to allow Administrative Office of the Courts employees to unionize was pulled by its author on Monday before a sch...

Attorneys can keep most recorded witness statements out of the hands of opposing counsel, the state Supreme Court ruled Monday...

The state Administrative Office of the Courts has been working for more than two years to update not only the information on c...

The more frivolous the case, the more likely a voluntary dismissal before trial, and the more frustrating an inability to reco...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday barring states from imposing mandatory life sentences without parole on juveniles cou...