Family law specialist Fred Silberberg says temporary legislation allowing spousal support modification upon emancipation of a...

Robert Jon Hendricks and Larry Lawrence of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius examine the California Supreme Court's decision to deny...

Emboldened by a recent 9th Circuit opinion, owners of trailer parks are increasingly challenging local government ordinances t...

A federal judge has dismissed two cases in which U.S. citizens claimed the government illegally conducted dragnet surveillance...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Frank Partnoy, a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego School of Law, hopes that his new Center for Corp...

The first lawyer to be arrested for scamming desperate homeowners seeking mortgage modifications was taken into custody early ...

Lawyers at San Francisco-based Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin helped client The Charles Schwab Corp. execute ...

Cisco reached a confidential settlement with John Ward Jr., the second of two lawyers who filed complaints over accusations po...

Direct purchaser plaintiffs in one of the major civil antitrust price fixing cases in the Northern District of California - in...

The remaining defendants in Rambus Inc.'s antitrust battle, Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., persuaded San...

Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona - free on bail as he appeals his conviction for obstruction of justice - wants to go ...

A 12-year-old middle school student filed a lawsuit Thursday against Los Angeles school administrators who allegedly sent the ...

Judge-turned-arbitrator Richard P. "Skip" Byrne traces his family's long history in the legal profession back to a bet his gra...

A Wells Fargo shareholder is going after company executives for hundreds of millions of dollars he alleges they wasted while a...

About 3,000 California Department of Fish and Game biologists and other scientists who work for the state got bad news Thursda...

Former Brocade Communications Systems Inc. Chief Executive Gregory Reyes can keep his lawyers to defend him in a retrial on st...

Described as both a maverick and legend - and considered by some in the local black community as a champion of civil rights - ...

The California Supreme Court Thursday struck down as unconstitutional the limits the state legislature imposed on how much med...

Brianne Marriott of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore says California law is clear that employees are not required to tolerate employee...

Dina Appleton of Sheppard Mullin provides guidance on negotiating and dealmaking in Hollywood's entertainment industry.

Despite sustained vocal opposition, the Judicial Council voted Thursday to stay the course and continue extra one-day-a-month ...

A San Diego County judge didn't violate a defendant's constitutional rights by presiding over a trial despite previously disqu...

In striking down restrictions on independent corporate spending in elections, one U.S. Supreme Court Justice had an eye on the...

In a sweeping ruling that will have major repercussions on future elections, the U.S. Supreme Court concluded Thursday that re...

Deborah Cesario and Cynthia Smith of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost discuss disclosure of student information by school offici...

Conan O'Brien is free to leave the "Tonight Show." But wherever he goes, some of the best-known gags he developed over the cou...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Rick Rayl of Nossaman writes about last year's notable eminent domain cases and the implications of these decisions.

The loss of the Democrats' supermajority in the Senate makes the passage of major legislation and the confirmation of controve...