In what he described as one of the most serious cases of elder fraud in the state’s history, a Superior Court judge Friday sen...

Gang injunctions are a valuable tool used by law enforcement in combating criminal street gangs, writes Max B. Shiner.

Heller Ehrman's "wind-down" began Friday as partners cast electronic votes on the policy committee's proposal for how the firm...

A federal appellate panel has tossed six of 14 counts on which former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavlo Ivanovich Lazarenko was c...

Maybe the many thousands who have voluntarily chosen arbitration over three millennia knew something our legislators don’t, wr...

A long-awaited government report released this month found substantial disparities exist in the rate at which immigration judg...

Whatever the Justice Department decides about a possible Google-Yahoo deal, its analysis should be revealed so that advertiser...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

ADA Suits Should Have Measures Forcing Settlement Attempts

When Jeffrey L. Bleich became president of the State Bar a year ago, he offered no special program to instigate or goal to ach...

If you're a criminal defense lawyer thinking of attacking a jury instruction on reasonable doubt, you might want to think twice.

A 27-year veteran of the public defender's office died when he jumped in front of a Metrolink train as it left the Sylmar/San ...

A Superior Court judge has ordered an insurance company to pay a Burbank sound studio $14.1 million after rejecting the insure...

Though they're often derided, lobbyists for tribes with casinos have done a good job of educating members of Congress on the m...

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

A Superior Court judge is considering whether to certify a class action on behalf of gays and lesbians who claim the popular d...

Five women who signed on for a spooky tour of Hollywood claim they got treatment far scarier from their tour guide, including ...

Under FEHA, employers must participate in an "interactive process" meant to allow for early intervention , outside of the lega...

If the federal Adoption Incentive Program expires, more children will grow up in long-term foster care, less prepared to make ...

A JAMS neutral who had been hearing a family's probate disputes as a temporary judge has been pulled off the case - 14 years a...

California has adopted the “American” rule of each party bearing its own attorney fees in litigation, writes Michael Paul Thomas.

Web Exclusive - One of the three defendants charged with the bombing of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego, and a Fe...

For the First Time, a Bakersfield woman will head California women lawyers.

Following months of speculation about Heller Ehrman's fate, firm chairman Matt Larrabee announced that shareholders will vote ...

A closely-watched probate case that has tested mediation confidentiality statutes is headed to the state's Supreme Court.

Holly Fujie almost wasn’t the State Bar’s new president. A year ago she wasn’t even thinking of running. Thank an appellate ju...

When former McAfee Inc. General Counsel Kent H. Roberts met with company executives in May 2006 to tell them about the date ch...

Web Exclusive - The trucking industry failed to convince a federal appeals court to impose an emergency injunction to block th...

The San Francisco Superior Court has unanimously elected Judge Katherine Feinstein as assistant presiding judge.

As Thomas A. Kirschbaum prepared to enter the cabin of his 26-foot sailboat, "Feral," he silently thanked the person above dec...