The music industry's number three is the latest label to be hit with a class action suit mounted by musicians seeking to claw ...

A lawyer who once advertised heavily in San Diego now faces a slew of discipline charges from the State Bar. ...

A blind man who was fired after selling coffee and pastries for years from a tiny snack shop in the lobby of a federal courtho...

While 2011 marked a year of overall recovery for the U.S. labor market, the legal industry remained stagnant in job growth. ...

A divided 9th Circuit panel partially struck down a plan to dramatically increase logging, road building and grazing in the mo...

The district attorney's office has been the domain of Steve Cooley for over a decade but that will likely change come Novembe...

Greenberg Traurig LLP is expanding its pharmaceutical, medical device and health care litigation practice group with an additi...

As a search committee ramps up its nationwide efforts to hire a permanent director of the state's Administrative Office of the...

In the first official acknowledgement of the U.S. attorney's criminal probe of cycling legend Lance Armstrong, prosecutors too...

Is the use of a script a breach of professional ethics? By Jason de Bretteville of Sullivan & Cromwell LLP ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

The U.S. attorney's office for the Central District settled litigation alleging that Lomita discriminated against an Islamic c...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Los Angeles) ...

Videotape of the 2010 trial over Proposition 8's same-sex marriage ban cannot be released to the public, a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

Judge Armando Cuellar, who owns three horses, has a hands-off approach in court. -->

Defense attorneys hoping to knock out a set of product liability lawsuits against generic drugmakers didn't get the victory...

In the wake of recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions, a fight about class-action waivers has broken out between San Francisco br...

Companies pay big to advertise during the Super Bowl, but what are the risks? By Deborah L. Stein or Simpson Thacher & Bar...

Verizon Communications Inc. and some of its subsidiaries have agreed to settle a nationwide consumer class action over its bil...

The state Supreme Court granted its third death row reprieve in two months Thursday to a man convicted of killing a woman by p...

A lawsuit against CNN over the lack of closed captioning for videos on its website will move forward after a federal judge on...

A class action filed against Greenberg Traurig LLP and Wells Fargo Capital Finance Inc. alleges that the law firm and the bank...

A provision of California's realignment plan is being challenged in court by a convicted felon who claims it strips away the...

After 60-plus years, what legacy has redevelopment left behind, and where do we go from here? By Joseph E. Coomes Jr. of Best ...

Police accuse Bernard Finch, a wealthy physician, of murdering his wife just outside the couple's West Covina home in 1959. By...

The Presidio Historical Association and the Sierra Club have sued the federal agency that controls the Presidio National Park ...

A decision by the California Public Utilities Commission allowing PG&E customers to choose analog power meters instead of...

Sharon Zezima, deputy general counsel for Redwood City-based Electronic Arts Inc. for more than 11 years, announced Thursday s...

Anti-discrimination policies in the Fair Housing Act do not apply to roommate selection, an appellate panel held in a second r...