A one-time Newport Beach attorney pleaded guilty to fraud Friday for bilking clients and others out of more than $1 million. ...

Former biopharmaceutical executive W. Scott Harkonen claims his prosecution over off-label drug marketing should be dismissed ...

Five lawyers were elected to the State Bar Board of Governors, the bar announced Friday. ...

Mark Roeder and Alan Mendelson, partners in Menlo Park, advised iPierian Inc., a South San Francisco biopharmaceutical company...

AsiaInfo Holdings Inc. and Linkage Technologies International Holdings Limited merged in a cash and stock deal worth $733 mill...

A 56-year-old labor attorney who was passed over for a job as a staff attorney with a Bay Area transportation company can't su...

Judge Sherrill Ellsworth will take the helm of the Superior Court in the region that has experienced a lot of growing pains. ...

Civil rights lawyers have filed a proposed class action alleging Los Angeles County forces female jail inmates to undergo stri...

Mark J. Reichel says his client was badgered into testifying in molestation case. ...

ADR Services has created a specialty panel to handle disputes arising from the growing number of Korean business in Southern C...

Fighting against deceptive campaigning is difficult when the U.S. Supreme Court doesn't understand that the protection of free...

Doing a little bit of everything at once is a disaster waiting to happen. If you don't have time to do it right, don't do it a...

Patent litigators at Howrey bested WilmerHale in a trial that could lead to greater competition among companies in the semicon...

Lawyers advising biotechnology companies seeking a share of $1 billion in federal funds hope to build goodwill that pays divid...

Following his passions, a lawyer opens up his own firm servicing auto industry clients. ...

Wells Fargo & Co. is fending off claims that its checking account overdraft policies are illegal in a heated climate of ec...

Attorneys for Netflix Inc. are seeking to end what they consider a double standard that favors plaintiffs over defendants when...

A filmmaker who secretly worked for a plaintiffs' firm representing Nicaraguans testified Friday that confidential witnesses w...

Gregory Pollack knew he wanted to be a judge, but didn't know the path; winning case after case got him there

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...

When it comes to child support payments, Superior Court Commissioner Danny Haukedalen carefully weighs parents' concerns.

A criminal defendant in the Northern District is hoping the U.S. Supreme Court's recent ruling on the honest services statute ...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips wants the state Supreme Court to reverse an appellate ruling that it can be sued over a lawsuit ...

The Walt Disney Co. is on the brink of selling its Miramax film library to a consortium of investors led by billionaire Ron Tu...

The State Water Resources Control Board has appointed its former chief counsel Craig Wilson as the state's first ever Delta Wa...

The state Supreme Court said Irwindale defense lawyer Anthony Robusto did not mishandle a 1992 murder trial that sent his clie...

An Orange County couple agreed to pay $3.6 million to settle claims by the U.S. attorney's office that it bilked government he...

Two annual pass holders who are blind say Disney theme parks in Anaheim and Orlando, Fla. don't treat blind patrons unfairly. ...

Online dispute resolution might be the new kid on the block but it touts certain benefits that outshine the traditional face-t...