Focus Column - By Kit James Gardner - A recent appellate court decision makes one thing clear: You must know your case well - ...

Forum Column - By Elaine Elinson - A series of lawsuits has slowly drawn back the veil of secrecy around death penalty executi...

Lawmakers intend to introduce a measure today that aims to protect businesses from frivolous lawsuits when they have certified...

Steven Schatz of Wilson Sonsini, a Hillary Clinton fundraiser, has competition at his firm for Democratic dollars - lawyers ha...

In a case watched intently by privacy advocates and airline travelers, a federal appellate panel Monday gave customs officials...

Los Angeles trial judge William F. Fahey is known for following protocol, nearly to a fanatical degree. He is a stickler, he s...

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...

Ann Durst, left, founded Casa Cornelia Law Center in 1993. Carmen Chavez, right, is the group’s executive director.“I think ou...

Paul Rohrer, a senior associate from Munger, Tolles & Olsen who has been on the forefront of several controversial land us...

"[The Streisand effect is] actually quite an encouraging phenomenon in terms of democracy and free speech," said Mark Goldowit...

Focus Column - By Darren Donnelly - The Supreme Court is again being asked to overturn a Federal Circuit rule guarding patents...

Businesses and disability rights advocates appear to have reached a long sought compromise over access laws expected to be pre...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Robert L. Ebe, West Coast leader of Bingham McCutchen's distribution and franchise group, j...

Mark Steven Williams has a history of running - jogging, perhaps - into trouble. The Menlo Park attorney is dangerously close ...

Web Exclusive - By Amy Yarbrough - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger, a veteran bench officer and widely regard...

In an attempt to discredit the FBI's investigation of private eye Anthony Pellicano, defense attorneys on Friday probed the le...

Jerry Johnston makes things happen. The judge led an overhaul of an out-of-date mental health system at Orange County Superior...

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U.S. District Judge Manuel Real’s impartiality is under fire in an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the j...

Benjamin Benedict Salvaty, 1940-2008, a zealous Notre Dame football fan who represented Cal Trans and the Atchison, Topeka and...

The federal judge in the Anthony Pellicano trial said Thursday that she is alarmed by a complex legal issue at the heart of th...

A 9th Circuit appeals panel currently reviewing San Francisco's universal health care effort batted down arguments Thursday th...

A school district in Tulare County will pay $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a first-grader who was s...

With four degrees and three careers, mediator Joan Kessler has settled in to make the best use of all of them. ...

A federal jury convicted the leader of a Long Beach-based revolutionary group Wednesday for crimes related to a failed attempt...

Employment Column - By Christopher J. Kunke - Employers should also carefully scrutinize the substantive conscionability (i.e....

A panel appointed by the California Senate has recommended that the Legislature require local governments and courts to issue ...

As part of a lawsuit against the National Arbitration Forum and a credit card company, San Francisco Judge Peter J. Busch has ...

One week after consumer advocates complained of inaction, state regulators announced Thursday that they will force three of th...

A key group of Heller Ehrman corporate attorneys in the firm's San Diego office are leaving for DLA Piper, Heller's managing p...