Los Angeles County Commissioner Michael Pearce is reluctant to jail probation violators and lapsed addicts, saying incarcerati...

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

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...

Curt Cutting of Horvitz & Levy looks at People v. Freeman and whether the appearance of judicial bias is enough to overtur...

Senior Vice President and Chief Legal Officer of 99 Cents Only Stores - City of Commerce ...

A judge has cleared the way for mixed development of a 244-acre railway maintenance hub near Sacramento's downtown, allowing t...

Steven J. Stone says being a judge was like being a quarterback; as a mediator, the game is different. ...

Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School addresses Senator John McCain's reaction to the Supreme Court's decision in Kelo v. New Lon...

A conservative organization dedicated to preserving the traditional definition of marriage cannot become a party in a lawsuit ...

Lawyers for former Broadcom chief financial officer William J. Ruehle used their cross-examination of a prosecution witness to...

Janet Goldsmith of Kronick Moskovitz asks whether the new water usage reduction requirement is good law or just a good slogan....

James Wong of Chinney Capital recaps President Obama's first visit to China and examines its international significance. ...

A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled that the levee failure that caused devastating flood damage to parts of New Orleans a...

The Justice Department's new powers to obtain information from government fraud suspects and share it with other agencies and ...

Although Heller Ehrman's retirement plan is likely free of a $13.8 million lawsuit threatened by the law firm's creditors, som...

Former McKesson Corp. attorney Jay M. Lapine beat back charges of securities fraud Thursday when a jury acquitted him of all c...

In a blistering order Thursday, the chief judge of the 9th Circuit tried to reconcile the rights of married gay U.S. governmen...

Critics say insured employees who are denied benefits should be able to sue and seek punitive damages. ...

San Jose resident Maggie Vondras has never been to Indiana. But when an insurer tried to cancel her benefits, that state swoop...

A lawyer who was removed from a Wal-Mart class action case three years ago has asked a three-judge panel to reinstate her defa...

San Francisco County Supervisor David Campos authored an ordinance reducing efforts to refer juvenile suspects to immigration ...

U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank has won plaudits on the bench for her extraordinary preparation and attention to de...

Saying the U.S. will not become a "safe haven" for people who earn their money illegally, a federal judge sentenced former Ukr...

MGA Entertainment Inc. must comply with a court order to strip its famous Bratz dolls off store shelves in January, a federal ...

In his speech, Attorney General Eric Holder emphasizes the need to improve the quality of representation to the poor and power...

Howard Fulfrost of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, a former Brooklyn public high school teacher, writes about why he became an ...

In another erosion of the state's budget cuts, a U.S. judge on Wednesday reversed a 10 percent, $16 million cut in Medi-Cal re...

A woman who claims a game company on Facebook used her personal information to charge for unwanted services filed a class acti...

Dan Knise and Eileen Garczynski of Ames & Gough explain why, in good or bad economic times, some law firms get paid more q...

Mark Blackman of Alpert, Barr & Grant says a recent appellate decision has finally addressed the issue of inconsistent lie...