Big Law has joined the social networking site Facebook with New York-based Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle creating w...

When a client faces similar criminal and civil actions, criminal and civil attorneys must work together to ensure criminal cas...

The Supreme Court's method of interpreting the confrontation clause of the Sixth Amendment is a polar opposite to the its inte...

The Superior Court here tossed out a record 25 cases passing speedy trial deadlines last month in a new surge of dismissals br...

Web Exclusive - A jury has found San Diego Gas & Electric negligent in the deaths of four Marines who were killed when the...

Web Exclusive - Judge George Schiavelli confirmed reports that he plans to step down from the bench at the end of the month. ...

A federal judge has granted Warner Bros. $33 million on summary judgment against one of the nation's largest home karaoke mach...

Santa Cruz County Dependency Court Judge Denine J. Guy treats the children in her courtroom as if they were her own. ...

Vague and broadly worded “civility codes,” to curb student speech are coming under the scrutiny of the courts, where their obv...

Winston & Strawn adds a commercial litigator and media and entertainment attorney to its litigation group.

U.S. Magistrate Judge John F. Moulds tried to semiretire in 2003, but for the past year he has been busier than ever holding h...

SACRAMENTO - Although the allocation of $190 million in Proposition 1B transportation funds depends on the passage of the 2008...

Law and politics often mix, but at Chris Dolan's San Francisco law firm, they are actually sharing an office. ...

While courts courts deal with groundbreaking legal arguments, important constitutional issues, disputes worth vast sums of mon...

Two more partners from San Francisco-based Heller Ehrman have jumped ship. ...

As intellectual property assets continue to drive the value of industry across sectors, management of those assets is an incre...

We cannot ever be a truly democratic nation, with laws genuinely authored by the People, so long as important groups affected ...

Although ruling for the prosecution, a federal judge Tuesday implicitly blasted one of the assistant U.S. attorneys prosecutin...

Howrey’s office San Francisco office continues to strengthen its commercial litigation platform by hiring lateral partners. Th...

Michael T. Maletic, a Weil, Gotshal & Manges associate and Northern California co-chair of Lawyers for McCain, took vacati...

The settlement is the first in a series of class actions accusing the DGA and other guilds in the entertainment industry of ho...

Imagine winning a nine-year legal battle against the state only to have your $1.2 million attorney fee award revoked by the Ca...

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

A transactional trio from Duane Morris has joined Sheppard Mullin's corporate practice group.

A bill to generate up to $5 billion for building and upgrading dozens of courthouses throughout the state has finally made it ...

A Thousand Oaks attorney will now be able to take his seat on the State Bar Board of Governors after questions were resolved a...

In January, Nicole D. Harris will clock her seventh year as corporate counsel for Pacific Gas & Electric Company. ...

Among those on the inside track for the attorney general job in an Obama administration is Eric Holder, left, a national co-ch...

Just as grief and mourning are associated with the abstract concept of the loss of a job or loved one, they are also associate...

When the Hispanic National Bar Association decided to return to Los Angeles for its annual convention after a 24-year hiatus, ...