A person seeking the testing of crime-scene DNA can pursue that claim through a federal civil rights lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme...

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court makes it easier for prosecutors to submit dying declarations as evidence at trial. B...

Federal agencies can't hide sensitive information about internal procedures by invoking an exemption to the Freedom of Informa...

The Senate minted the California's newest federal judge Monday when it confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony J. Battaglia to...

Immigrants under deportation orders or those seeking to reopen their cases must be granted a bond hearing after 180 days of de...

Participation in committees and task forces gives judges an important say in judicial policymaking. By Richard D. Huffman of t...

Barely two years after he closed the books on Heller Ehrman LLP and took up with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP's securities ...

The technology-fueled revolution in Egypt could herald a wave of democratization in the Middle East. By James Cooper of the Ca...

The number of Howrey partners in Northern California has dwindled to single digits, as more attorneys go elsewhere and uncerta...

Lawyers Mark J. Geragos and Brian S. Kabateck are refusing to pay more than $55,000 in legal fees to a law firm once associate...

The State Bar may soon post big, bold notices on its website warning the public against lawyers charged with stealing large am...

The company hired to build a statewide case management system for the California courts is facing three lawsuits that call int...

Commissioner Kathleen M. Jacobs makes her court comfortable for parties - no legalese, just the facts.

Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Blue Shield of California San Francisco ...

Sunnyvale-based Accuray Inc., which sells radiation-based surgical equipment, will buy radiation-therapy company TomoTherapy I...

Project management is all the rage in law firms. But will attorneys really let someone else manage their major matters? ...

General Counsel for California Medical Association San Francisco ...

Upping the stakes in an already high-pitched battle with actor Charlie Sheen, Warner Bros. Television reportedly has hired leg...

A trial judge threw out a sexual harassment lawsuit against San Bernardino District Attorney Michael Ramos. ...

O2 Micro International Ltd. must pay $339,000 in costs and as much as $13.5 million in attorney's fees for litigation miscondu...

In a case legal experts said could help define coastal boundaries for people looking to develop beachfront property, a state a...

Cantil-Sakauye's decision to delay the speech came amid some legislators' call for greater oversight of the branch. But Cantil...

A union-backed proposal to enforce nurse-to-patient staffing ratios in California hospitals could aid plaintiff's attorneys in...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Mary C. Morgan, a judicial policy innovator who advanced gay rights as the first ope...

Lawsuits challenging ZIP code transactions stand to gain nothing. By Jeffrey A. Cohen and Alexander Yoffe of Cohen & Richa...

Two senior prosecutors from the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's office will likely join the federal bench as magistrate judges lat...

A woman who decided against a mastectomy to treat her cancer is suing a medical device company and an Orange County hospital b...

Following two federal court cases filed in California of behalf of blind law school graduates, the agency that administers th...

The Obama administration's decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act is indicative of an expansive view of executive ...

Nearly two dozen more lawsuits have been filed against retailers over the practice of asking for ZIP code information during c...