The federal judiciary continues to butt heads with an oversight agency that recently issued a scathing report on how new court...

The two were charged with grand theft and embezzlement Wednesday for allegedly stealing $2.6 million from a San Francisco soft...

President Obama on Wednesday nominated Whittier Police Chief David Mark Singer to serve as U.S. Marshal for the Central Distri...

The law is part of more stringent rules governing residential mortgage originators. ...

A group of Skadden Arps partners based in California helped put together a deal to create a supplier of packaged convenience f...

Yamaha scored a big win in Orange County this week when the first of nearly 200 lawsuits filed alleging safety flaws in its Rh...

A Delaware jury found Facebook Inc. was not liable for patent infringement against an Ohio-based company, because it had sold ...

Supporters of a November ballot measure to suspend California's landmark global warming law objected in a lawsuit this week to...

A plaintiff's lawyer is insinuating that Vons may be losing or destroying evidence in slip and fall lawsuits. ...

At what point does peaceful protesting become “trespassing?” By Wendy E. Lane of Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff. ...

Since immigration law is about jurisdiction, one take on the debate over Arizona's law is asking who has the right to refuse e...

Welcome to California, where a private lawyer can get deputized by any of the state's district attorneys or city attorneys, by...

Don't be deceived, obtaining an exclusive patent license isn't as simple as it first appears, by Bruce G. Chapman and Keith D....

Securities class-action litigation is in the doldrums, according to several recently-released studies painting a bleak picture...

Mobile technology is laying the groundwork for what could be the next wave of wage and hour class actions: allegations of unpa...

The State Bar announced Wednesday that 10-year senior executive Starr Babcock will take over as the bar's general counsel next...

A group of attorneys suing Los Angeles County over allegedly illegal strip and cavity searches of inmates want to talk to Lind...

Homeowners' associations - HOAs - commonly maintain and sometimes own portions of projects for which they are established. ...

The security of your tenants and guests is always a main priority for you as a commercial property or building owner. But how ...

Yes, we are in a distressed commercial real estate cycle. ...

While the financing of commercial real estate has received much attention, most of the focus has been on the impact on banks a...

Green design and construction are more than a fashion trend. California's Green Building Standards Code, known as CALGreen - t...

Real estate lenders may be drowning in bad commercial real estate debt, but the floodgates have yet to open on distressed real...

Lawyers are increasingly pursuing accreditation as green-building professionals to market their expertise and help clients ens...

While the state law aimed at fighting global warming may not take direct aim at the real estate industry, a ballot proposition...

With governments increasingly requiring such environmentally friendly construction and property owners including these feature...

Univision Services Inc. admitted involvement in an illegal business scheme related to cash payments for increased airtime. ...

General Electric Co. and two subsidiaries violated the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act by paying kickbacks to the Iraqi governme...

A federal judge on Tuesday upheld the conviction of W. Scott Harkonen, the former chief executive of Brisbane-based drug maker...

Dean Gloster, a partner with San Francisco-based Farella Braun + Martell, describes the current state of affairs for real esta...