The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit signalled Thursday it is going back to basics when determining whether inven...

In emotion-packed child support court, even-tempered Commissioner Randall W. Magnuson keeps the peace. ...

Why would traditional marriage be threatened by two people who love each other?

At 84, former Superior Court Judge Isabella Horton Grant is still going strong as a mediator.

Hanson Bridgett has added four attorneys to its health care and real estate groups in Sacramento.

"This is one of the strongest patent cases I've ever had," Morrison & Foerster partner Harold McElhinny of San Francisco s...

Cerebral and unassuming, Alicia G. Rosenberg knows how to keep lawyers on point. ...

A Nigerian man's three widows and two of his sons covered their faces and sobbed in court Wednesday as an attorney showed juro...

The race for Seat 82 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court has been fraught with questions of emotion and control. Thomas R...

In the wake of management's recommendation to dissolve the firm, Thelen's approximately 400 attorneys are scrambling to find n...

After many of their U.S. colleagues have landed at new firms, Heller Ehrman attorneys in London are finally finding new homes....

The Federal Circuit recently upheld an important test as the standard for determining whether a design patent has been infring...

The LAPD can claim credit for the things it has done to address racial bias, but with the stark disparities shown by the ACLU ...

A state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $1.5 million jury verdict against City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo for firing a ...

Where the LAPD sees crime reduction in neighborhoods with a significant police presence, the ACLU misses the forest for the tr...

A federal prosecutor Wednesday morning drew a sharp contrast between Orange County's public Sheriff Mike Carona and the "secre...

A federal jury has awarded San Diego's Sempra Energy $48.5 million, agreeing with claims that an insurance adviser negligently...

Reed Smith nabs a former Morrison & Foerster partner for its Silicon Valley-based corporate practice group.

In a landmark human rights abuse trial that began Tuesday with opening statements in San Francisco federal court, Robert A. Mi...

While there have been large bankruptcies in the past, few have involved companies of the size or scope of AIG, and even fewer ...

Restructuring our system so that financial institutions cannot pick their regulator is a plan that is sorely needed, writes La...

Mexico is undergoing a fundamental legal and political crisis, a fact that should be cause for close attention in our local le...

Google Inc.'s settlement with trade organizations representing authors and publishers opens the way for the Mountain View-base...

The management of Thelen recommended to its partners on Tuesday that the firm close its doors effective Dec. 1, marking the se...

As the corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona and his alleged mistress begins today, federal prosecutors...

Reed Smith adds a partner and associate from Morgan Lewis.

Jane Lueke Johnson has made the transition to the judiciary the same way she runs her races - one step at a time. ...

The face on the campaign to ban same-sex marriage in California is an attorney. ...

"That he found himself detained in another location was, at that point, a circumstance of his own creation," Justice Carol Cor...

If approved by a San Jose bankruptcy judge, Levene, Neale, Bender, Rankin & Brill would settle a complaint for breach of f...