What good is it to apply law without caring about whether the result is a just one? By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...

U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips of Riverside was wrong to sanction a Los Angeles deputy city attorney $60,000 for mak...

Sixteen people were arrested Thursday, charged with participation in an $18 million health care fraud scheme. ...

A divided appellate panel upheld the authority of Southern California air pollution regulators to impose monitoring and report...

Two musicians' unions circulated a memo Thursday encouraging their members to reject a direct licensing deal offered by satell...

A former Nixon Peabody LLP partner accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of manipulating evidence on behalf of a B...

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt what appeared to be a death blow to consumer class actions by upholding mandator...

A print of the Black Knight from "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" in the chambers of San Francisco County Superior Court Pres...

Readers respond to "Release of one is release of all - but not for much longer." ...

In this political climate, it is essential for the president to make as many progressive judicial appointments as possible. By...

DLA Piper partners are reportedly prepared to add a new global co-chairman for the firm and, in an unusual move for the legal ...

A Sikh man denied work as a state corrections officer because of his long beard will receive $295,000 and a desk job as part o...

A federal judge has disqualified a lawyer from representing two clients suing each other in the same case. ...

In a settlement likely to draw the attention of other municipalities, the city of Antioch will submit to federal court oversig...

Renewable energy company executives warned that California is losing clean tech manufacturing to other states, and urged lawma...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman is the latest big-name law firm to open its doors in the Middle East. ...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a suit Wednesday claiming that "biodegradable" and "recyclable" labels on cert...

A blind law school graduate's two-year battle with bar exam testing authorities over accommodations for her disability came to...

Darryl Steinhause, who played a lead role in restructuring the Sunwest Management Co. bankruptcy, has left Luce, Forward, Hami...

Involuntary Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings for five companies controlled by embattled film financier David Bergstein will g...

It takes more than bad manners to hold employers liable for sexual harassment. By Frances E. Rogers of Liebert Cassidy Whitmor...

A growing number of patent litigation cases have been boosting business for Article One Partners LLC, which recently opened a ...

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Lawyers who lost national class certification at the U.S. Supreme Court in June will announce Thursday a renewed effort to go ...

The judge presiding over Oracle Corp.'s copyright and patent infringement trial against Google Inc. proposed Wednesday dividin...

Why we should consider a pilot mediation program for young, violent offenders charged with gang and gun enhancements. By Scot...

Threatening to seize assets of landlords who rent to medicinal marijuana cultivators and collectives, U.S. attorneys in Califo...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation sued the Department of Justice Wednesday in San Francisco federal court seeking information...

A former Nixon Peabody LLP partner accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of manipulating evidence on behalf of a B...

UBS Realty Investors bought the Kyoto Grand Hotel and Gardens in downtown Los Angeles for a reported $45 million.