Alameda County public defenders and district attorneys are set to take big hits in a budget proposed Thursday by the county ad...

In a big win for disability rights advocates, the California Supreme Court ruled Thursday that people with disabilities don't ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday appointed five judges to the courts of appeal and four to the trial courts.

Businesses fighting wage-and-hour lawsuits got the go-ahead from the California Supreme Court this week to employ a new tactic...

Law students aren't the only financial victims of shorter and smaller summer programs at area law firms - nonprofit legal serv...

Critics say at-will employment is unnecessary or even silly - they're wrong, writes D. Gregory Valenza.

Dozens of members of the Western Shoshone tribe, including tribal elder Mary McCloud, converged on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court ...

Google Inc. brought its road show to San Francisco on Wednesday as part of a public relations campaign to convince business le...

Last fall, victims' rights advocates celebrated the long-sought passage of Marsy's Law, a voter-approved proposition that give...

The tough economy provides a chance to spur a recovery through energy efficiency and renewables, writes Dennis Markatos-Soriano.

Michael P. Vicencia said Wednesday he was thrilled to take the helm of the California Judges Association, although he admitted...

Many judges differ on the value of oral arguments, writes Michael Paul Thomas.

National security, consumer protection and restoring independence and non-partisanship to a Justice Department roiled by a ras...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor's class on appellate advocacy, which she taught at Columbia Law School for a decade...

The State Bar Fairness Act would make sure Bar prosecutors receive the same scrutiny they give to Bar members, writes David A....

Without better enforcement, slumlords will keep profiting from keeping their tenants in deplorable living conditions, writes ...

Damage a natural resource like a tree or an invertebrate and you might be liable for damages, write Alan N. Bick, James M. Sab...

The firm founded by former Los Angeles County District Attorney Ira Reiner has been accused of stiffing a court reporting serv...

Mid-size California law firms haven't been immune to the challenges presented by the economic downturn, but they claim to have...

Advocates for improving environmental conditions for low-income communities Wednesday mounted the first legal challenge to the...

Robert Plotkin's book "Genie in the Machine" examines the implications of artificial invention technology for patent law.

The Prop. 8 decision overlooks the structural underpinnings of the California Constitution, writes Allen Lanstra.

The facts of the cases San Diego litigator James W. Huston handles often sound as intriguing as the plots of one of his bestse...

The uncertain fate of business method patents leaves many companies scrambling to figure out what to do until the Supreme Cour...

Southern California seems to be at a very different place in the evolution of the use of mediation than the rest of the countr...

Health care providers should become familiar with new amendments to the False Claims Act, write Peter B. Hutt II and Robert S....

Luke Cole, a pioneer of the environmental justice movement and leader of the Center for Race, Poverty & the Environment, w...

A congressional task force headed by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena, unanimously approved articles of impeachment Tuesday for a ...

In the wake of allegations of accounting fraud by KPMG in its dealings with subprime mortgage lender New Century Financial Cor...

Citing newfound jailhouse recordings that apparently undermined a key witness, a federal judge threw out the two most serious ...