After tapping a controversial California law professor for the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, President Barack Obama has r...

A film financier fighting creditors' efforts to force his companies into bankruptcy sued his former in-house lawyer, accusing ...

With the conviction of former Brocade chief executive Gregory L. Reyes on nine of ten counts related to stock options backdati...

Robert Burlison went from setting the plays as a basketball coach and prosecutor to refereeing felony cases as a judge. ...

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...

Linda Hurst was raised in a conservative Army family. Lawyers say that background is not reflected in her jurisprudence.

The five federal-judge panel charged with choosing the venue for more than 100 lawsuits against Toyota Motor Corp. appears to ...

Marilyn Huff has not hesitated to make unpopular decisions.

Attorneys for the Poway Unified School District have filed a notice of appeal of a federal court ruling that the district viol...

When President Barack Obama signed the landmark health care overhaul into law this week, he also handed over 30 million new pa...

A second electronics company has agreed to settle claims that it conspired to fix prices in the market for liquid crystal disp...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld verdicts that Cupertino-based attorney did not violate an employee in...

Barbara Reeves Neal has worn many hats in her 37-year law career. So the JAMS mediator and arbitrator prides herself on being ...

Max Factor III of PMA and Scott Van Soye of Kane Ballmer & Berkman say, when a small demand is made to better one party's ...

Riverside's former police chief pleaded guilty Thursday to one misdemeanor count of drunken driving and was sentenced to three...

Jonathan Cole and Susan Baker of Nemecek & Cole advise on what it means when an attorney approves a document "as to form a...

Areva Martin of Martin & Martin says the plan to eliminate the use of private banks for government subsidized student loan...

A man who claims to have been duped by video game retailer GameStop has sued the company, accusing it of advertising supposedl...

The California Supreme Court ruled unanimously Thursday that a city ordinance prohibiting the solicitation of funds at Los Ang...

A Web site that lets you air out your differences anonymously and receive third party feedback may be a useful dispute resolut...

With April 15 fast approaching, watch out for these tax preparer mistakes, writes David Howard of Hoge Fenton Jones & Appe...

Rules that make it harder to send freed California inmates back to prison for alleged parole violations survived the state's c...

The White House nominated Melinda L. Haag to be the next U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California yesterday, as h...

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

Plaintiffs' attorneys are hoping to persuade a federal judge today that Charles Schwab broke the law when it increased a fund'...

Washington, D.C.-based Arent Fox plans to open a Northern California office initially focusing on intellectual property law an...

Make a conscious effort to overcome bias since our brains are hardwired to distrust those not like us, write Max Factor III of...

Michael Carroll, Joel Mack, Jared Johnson and Marc Campopiano of Latham & Watkins advise on the draft "renewable electrici...

The price of settling securities fraud class action lawsuits rose more than 27 percent on average in 2009 over the previous ye...