Victor Schachter of Fenwick & West in Mountain View represents the California Employment Law Council. He is urging the Ca...

Observers are optimistic about the potential for one of the federal government's programs designed to help banks unload toxic ...

Every time a product is featured on a show like "The Oprah Winfrey Show," Web sites full of fake endorsements and "as seen on"...

A judge has allowed several complaints to move forward accusing a defunct technology company's executives of misleading invest...

In the absence of the Supreme Court's decision it remains to be seen whether business method patents have really been dealt a ...

Dewey & LeBoeuf's decision to hire a group of mergers and acquisitions partners led by Keith Flaum and Richard Climan away...

For too long, virtually the only consequence of prosecutorial misconduct has been the reversal of a conviction, writes Kathlee...

Attorney General Jerry Brown and four other state attorneys general have urged the U.S. Senate to ensure states can enforce vi...

Langley Productions Inc. - the people who brought you COPS - is prepping a reality show about the lives of deputies in the Los...

A former Mitchell, Silberberg & Knupp partner has sued the firm for failing to refund more than $25,000 of his contributio...

San Mateo County Superior Court officials on Tuesday announced they will lay off 28 court workers - a significant drop from th...

Who controls the privilege in a corporate setting: An executive who spoke to the company's lawyers or the company's board of d...

While the Legislature continues to struggle through budget cut battles, the race to become the state's leading law enforcer is...

A recent 1st Circuit case dealt a frightening blow to taxpayers' rights ...

A watered down version of the state Senate's prison budget reduction plan was passed by the Assembly on Monday - leaving legis...

Pop star left massive debt - but also a potential for hundreds of millions of dollars in earnings. ...

Three non-lawyers who created and managed American Law Center, a Sacramento bankruptcy firm, have pleaded guilty to falsifyin...

Corporate management and legal aid attorneys should realize that victim restitution can benefit shareholders, as well as those...

For companies to make online file-sharing legal and successful, some changes will have to be made, writes Ronald S. Rosen. ...

The state's judicial watchdog agency has admonished a former Los Angeles County Superior Court judge for not properly supervis...

A recent 9th Circuit case proved that certain rights cannot be terminated by a broad and general waiver, no matter how compreh...

Chevron Corp. has videotapes it claims prove corruption in the Ecuadorian judicial system where it has been fighting a multibi...

Fish & Richardson will close its Austin, Texas, office and essentially eliminate its small corporate department at the end...

The destructive wildfires tearing through Southern California are expected to be a likely topic in Las Vegas this weekend for ...

In "The Little White Book of Baseball Law," John H. Minan and Kevin Cole discuss the legal issues of stadium construction, mem...

Lawyers from Paul Hastings and Dewey & LeBoeuf helped wrap up marathon negotiations for the Mouse House's $4 billion purch...

Federal authorities have dropped their investigation of Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former school board member...

A female photographer who claims she was sexually assaulted by two Sacramento firefighters at the capitol's Porn Star Costume ...

Commissioner Collette Serio got "burned" this summer. A lenient judge who believes in rehabilitation, she took a harsh line wi...

When people talk about video games and quarters these days, it's usually in reference the industry's strong earnings. But ther...