Do bar association opinions influence voter choices in judicial elections? The answer: hardly; maybe not at all. ...

A hospital's decision to fire nurses for allegedly posting patient information on a social networking site highlights an emplo...

The California Supreme Court waded deeper into the battle over Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's budget cuts Wednesday and granted ...

Kaye Scholer decided to stay in its Century City office at Sun America Plaza.

Katy Boyask's Toyota RAV4 never sped out of control. It was never in an accident, and she was never injured. Experts say peop...

Judge Kevin McCarthy is best known for settling a fight over Barry Bond's home run baseball. But he's also made tough calls in...

The Court of Appeal on Tuesday sided with Walgreens' arguments that its challenge against San Francisco's tobacco sales ban in...

Disgraced Tour de France winner Floyd Landis hired Wilson Sonsini to defend him in government investigations arising from his ...

Kevin Cole, dean of the University of San Diego School of Law, is planning to step down in the summer of 2011 and return to th...

The Orange County Lavender Bar Association officially launches next week with an event at Gibson Dunn & Crutcher's Irvine ...

Lawyers analyzing the climate change impacts of their clients' projects have had little legal guidance. Bay Area air quality r...

Just as stem cells develop and change into brain or liver cells, patents for related innovations are evolving as well. ...

A 15-year legal brawl over a massive industrial complex near the U.S./Mexico border has erupted again, thanks to a series of a...

The settlement between screenwriters and the Writers Guild of America West ends a five-year legal battle involving tens of mil...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to stay a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that upheld Arizona's campaign financ...

If Elena Kagan is approved, all nine justices will have attended Harvard or Yale, and the Supreme Court will consist of a narr...

In his new book, Patrick Del Duca takes a comparative look at cross-border secured lending and commercial dispute resolution. ...

Bryan Wildenthal of Thomas Jefferson School of Law asks whether children born on American soil obtain "birthright" U.S. citize...

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles wants to keep secret testimony given by its cardinal and other high ranking offi...

Four San Diego stockbrokers convicted in 2006 of bilking customers out of $5 million in a pump-and-dump scheme got what will l...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith A. Jury has recused herself from a lawsuit filed by the trustee for bankrupt real estate develo...

Corporate transactional lawyer Yabo Lin moved his practice Monday from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to Sidley Austin's Pa...

A San Jose federal judge deferred any decision about Facebook Inc.'s lawsuit against social networking site aggregator Power V...

The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm Lucy H. Koh as a federal district judge for the Northern District of California. ...

Voters don't have a constitutional right to a secret ballot when it comes to local property fee elections, the California Supr...

Affirming a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that the federal Bureau of Prisons ha...

Sanctions totaling more than a quarter of a million dollars against Marina del Rey copyright lawyer Anthony Kornarens were wel...

Lawmakers, entertainment executives and media industry analysts voiced concerns at a Congressional hearing Monday about the po...

Marsh & McLennan Cos. spun off investigatory arm Kroll Inc. on Monday, selling the company to Virginia-based professional ...