In a blow to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California Supreme Court on Thursday denied the state's request to consolidate an...

The state Attorney General's Office is threatening to sue San Bernardino County for refusing to waive attorney-client privileg...

After 17 years of legal battles over Chevron Corp.'s responsibility to clean up oil contamination in Ecuador's rainforest, an ...

Alicia Villarreal, a Morgan Lewis litigation partner, was appointed regional representative for Secretary of Labor Hilda L. So...

The manager and president of a San Diego catering company have been indicted on 16 counts of hiring unauthorized workers. ...

The former chief financial officer of San Francisco software company Embarcadero Technologies Inc. has agreed to settle civil ...

Los Angeles-based Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith hired 16 lawyers to its New York office from Wilson, Elser, Moskowtiz, E...

California lawyers from Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom advised San Francisco-based Visa Inc. in its acquisition of C...

Jared Blumenfeld, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regional adminstrator, has vowed to improve how the agency helps poor c...

In a ruling that is likely to be a boon for some plaintiffs' lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded Wednesday that debt col...

In a case of keen interest to public interest lawyers, the U.S. Supreme Court held Wednesday that federal judges can only awar...

Class action ping-pong in which cases rebound endlessly between state and federal courts is against the rules, a 9th U.S. Circ...

Chemical regulation is about to change in California with the Department of Toxic Substances Control's Safer Alternative Rule,...

In celebration of Earth Day, while we point with pride and view with alarm, we should recognize that choices about how to pro...

California's climate change policy is evolving quickly and local governments should develop greenhouse gas reduction plans now...

Deepa Badrinarayana of Chapman University School of Law asks whether nations can find common ground on climate change negotiat...

Diane DeFelice of Brownstein Hyatt and Charles Pomeroy of McKenna Long discuss the implementation of SB 375's goal to decrease...

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted former KB Home chief executive Bruce Karatz of attempting to cover up a scheme to backda...

Proposed new federal regulations may increase costs associated with startup ventures and reduce the number of new businesses c...

The University of Southern California has quietly replaced elite law firm Latham & Watkins as legal counsel on a multi-bil...

Judge Nancy Wieben Stock has always taken a leadership role in every task before her.

Kristy S. Watts used to be a bookkeeper for world-famous romance novelist Danielle Steel. But starting in June, she'll be a pr...

New York-based Pfizer Inc. lost a bid to have a San Francisco federal judge impose sanctions against Joseph M. Alioto Sr., a w...

Eighty Mexican prosecutors and agents from Baja California are attending two days of classes north of the border as part of an...

Legislation that would require independent yearly audits of how California's trial courts and the central Administrative Offic...

A senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney was found guilty Tuesday of taking bribes from illegal immigrants i...

As more details emerge about a crime lab employee's drug thefts and other criminal acts, political analysts say the scandal is...

Amway distributors who contend the big direct sales company is really a fraudulent pyramid scheme got a boost Tuesday from a 9...

For the second time this term, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a statute on free speech grounds Tuesday when it held that a...