Trial lawyers may be close to winning a long-sought tax break allowing them to write off the cost of contingency litigation, p...

The Daily Journal celebrated California’s leading labor and employment lawyers at a reception Tuesday night in downtown Los An...

Ronald M. George will be remembered as much for what he accomplished behind the scenes in managing the nation's largest judici...

A Sherman Oaks defense attorney pleaded no contest Wednesday to attempting to dissuade a witness from testifying in court and ...

A real estate investment firm that once touted itself online as a "real estate Costco" is being sued by 20 investors who claim...

A group of former employees of the Toyota manufacturing plant in Fremont that closed down this spring sued Wednesday, claiming...

Attorney General Jerry Brown announced Wednesday that he filed suit against Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac over their moves blocki...

A case that has divided the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over a star witness who lied about his Purple Heart won't get an...

California's Three Strikes Law celebrated its sweet 16th birthday this past spring. Harvey Gee of the Office of the Federal Pu...

Theodore Monroe explains how credit card transaction service providers could be charged with knowingly contributing to the tra...

The battle between providers of commercial general liability policies and the courts over the limits of coverage is nothing ne...

California Chief Justice Ronald M. George announced Wednesday he will return to private life after 38 years on the bench, the ...

Mitch Kamin, head of Bet Tzedek Legal Services, announced Wednesday he will be stepping down from the organization to join Bir...

Should a U.S. district judge considering class certification ever take into account the potentially ruinous damages that could...

California Chief Justice Ronald M. George says he is leaving after 14 years because he wants to depart at the "top of my game....

CB Richard Ellis Investors acquired a five-building Oakland office portfolio from Shorenstein Properties.

Big corporations that must defend patent infringement lawsuits are trying to cut costs by hiring a coordinated group of defens...

Setting an aggressive agenda for California employment law. ...

California lawyers companies turn to first. ...

Two cities in San Diego County voted in June to end project labor agreements, pre-hire collective bargaining pacts negotiated ...

Will the state Supreme Court end wage-and-hour disputes in California? ...

Many small and mid-sized law firms performed better last year than managing partners expected, and their leaders are optimisti...

A New York federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that the Federal Communications Commission's indecency policy is too vague and ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday sided with California delivery drivers working for a Texas-based company, who...

Greg Valenza of Shaw Valenza examines a 9th Circuit decision on offensive workplace e-mail and First Amendment rights that cou...

The long-troubled East Bay Law School, which failed to have a single student pass the bar exam since its founding in 2003, shu...

James Lyons, Amy Park and Lanelle Meidan of Skadden dissect a 9th Circuit decision that resolves a years long split among dist...

Management often overlooks the possibility that the company's intellectual property may be jeopardized by departing employees,...

The amount of cash raised by venture capital funds hit the lowest level in almost seven years in the second quarter -- an ill ...