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In one of their largest deals this year, lawyers at the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom represe...

SACRAMENTO - Score another point this week for Chief Justice Ronald M. George, who has consistently knocked down every legisla...

Editors Column - By Peter Blumberg - If I'm to be tried for murder in front of a judge I don't like, I'm entitled to a differ...

Forum Column - By Rep. Darrell Issa - Congress will need to pursue compromise in its attempt at intellectual property reform. ...

Christopher D. Burdick was approaching retirement from the San Francisco law firm that bears his family name when tragedy stru...

Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - Insurance litigators need to be keenly aware of restrictions on their billing practices. ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday made it extremely difficult for most federal criminal defendants to challenge ...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - Recent California court decisions have made it more difficult to circumvent employ...

SAN BERNARDINO - A judge has ordered the nation's largest municipal utility to pay $224 million for "intentionally" ignoring s...

In a narrowly written opinion, California's highest court ruled Thursday that a land use plan restricting residential developm...

SAN FRANCISCO - A world-renowned doctor who runs a winery has agreed to pay Napa County $550,000 over land-use violations at h...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists today will ask a federal judge to give biologists a legal say in running the state's massive...

Two criminal defense attorneys have accused San Francisco prosecutors and police of colluding with federal agents to set up a ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed new pleading requirements for shareholders trying to sue public compan...

SACRAMENTO - The Sacramento chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates has named Superior Court Judge James L. Long huma...

A slew of federal criminal charges against top executives over misdated stock options has thrust securities powerhouses like B...

As in nature, the legal industry is in a constant state of evolution. Only the fittest (read: profitable) practices seem to su...

The American Bar Association has backed down from its widely criticized plan to require more students pass the bar exam before...

When a founding partner at Indian Wells-based business-law boutique Roemer Harnik & Nethery died unexpectedly in May, the ...

Best Best & Krieger Managing Partner Eric Garner explains how to expand a small, regional firm to a major statewide presen...

SAN FRANCISCO - Chief Justice Ronald M. George Wednesday named three new members to the Judicial Council. ...

SAN FRANCISCO - A prosecution witness gave dramatic testimony against her former boss Wednesday in the first stock-options bac...

Focus Column - By Allan K.A. Marson, Yuanyuan Cheng and Jinghua Liu - A bevy of new laws will change the way American invest...

Forum Column - By Joan C. Williams - Proposals to prohibit discrimination against employees with family responsibilities are a...

LOS ANGELES - For the second time in two months, a state appellate panel has ruled that the Children's Law Center of Los Angel...

The Securities and Exchange Commission voted unanimously Wednesday to require companies to post proxy materials online, ending...

SAN FRANCISCO - Berkeley attorney Lainey Feingold is doing what a lot of lawyers in the disability rights field do: getting bi...

LOS ANGELES - To even the most casual observer of Los Angeles political news, City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo has seen better w...