Central Valley farmers are using CEQA - the state's premiere environmental protection statute - to keep high-speed trains from...

Shareholders in derivative actions increasingly are targeting the auditors. But accountants have formidable defenses.

An update with Akin, Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Clark & Trevithick; Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe; Vinson &...

Lawyers share their tales of triumph and woe. This week: the goat farmer.

To maintain their eligibility as amateurs, student-athletes at NCAA schools must sign releases for the use of their names and ...

We recognize 60 lawyers throughout the Golden State for their contributions to 27 extraordinary achievements in 2012. Among th...

Are websites that host defamatory content legally liable for images and information posted by their users?

Lawyers are advocates and counselors, but on occasion they may be called upon to testify for a client. When that happens, ethi...

A judge who had always wanted to be on a jury finally gets to serve.

Counties in many states have sued the MERS registry for dodging recorders' fees. But not in California.

California's mock trial program for high schools is changing lives.

An update with Morrison & Foerster; Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein; Dechert; and the U.S. Department of Ju...

Puzzling over President Obama's first-term judicial vacancies.

Lawyers share their tales of triumph and woe. This week: sunken treasure.

For thousands of newly minted lawyers in California, a well-trodden career path is no longer paying off.

New Droid devices are giving Apple a run for its money.

Cross examination is the most dramatic part of a case, and never more so than when the witness is a forensic accountant talkin...

Aspiring law students with disabilities fight for extra time to take the LSAT.

When a self-driving car causes an accident, who is to blame? ...

An innovative one-day procedure promises binding arbitration in the morning (with a sealed award), followed by mediation in th...

Attorney Michael T. Pines thought that guerrilla tactics could help people recover their foreclosed homes. It didn't work out ...

With online poker now legal in Nevada, state lawmakers are playing catch-up in the race to regulate -- and tax -- gambling on ...

Two years into California's expedited jury trials program, lawyers still seem reluctant to try it. ...

For less than the cost of a client lunch, law firms can buy enough protection to effectively defend against a myriad of attack...