We take a look back at 20 of the most significant moments in the law's history. By Mark Goldowitz and Evan Mascagni of the Cal...

The simplest solution is to reduce the number of death penalty cases in the system by narrowing the list of special circumstan...

Two weeks ago, a judge sentenced Rajat Gupta to two years in prison and a $5 million fine for insider trading. By Michael W. E...

Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona this week asked U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford to vacate or amend his 5 1/2 y...

At an October event, "What Makes a Leader?" in the San Francisco office of the Equal Rights Advocates, executive director Nore...

U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. and representatives from a host of law enforcement agencies met this week to discuss mortgage ...

A bill that went into effect last month enables women who offer to carry a child for another couple to obtain their own legal ...

A San Francisco federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking parts of Proposition 35, a new law that California...

On Nov. 2, Southwestern Law School recognized Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP partner Russell Frackman and two other atto...

A San Jose magistrate judge awarded sanctions against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for discovery squabbles befo...

Google Inc. is gearing up to defend itself next week against Microsoft Corp., just one in a slew of legal battles the company ...

On Oct. 12 Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP attorney Leslie McAdam was awarded the California State Bar President's Pro Bono Ser...

Martin Quinn, a former lawyer who works as a mediator at JAMS, says he has to work a little harder than the retired judges there.

Earlier this week, Netflix Inc. responded to famed activist investor Carl Icahn's takeover attempt by adopting a poison pill w...

Business law firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP has opened an office in Santa Monica's busy Third Street Promenade in hop...

A group of judges and other state officials that must determine how to equitably fund courts has to figure out how to compare ...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

With the failure Tuesday of a proposition to abolish the death penalty, the state Supreme Court is facing the specter of becom...

Opponents of class action waivers won a victory this week when a San Francisco administrative law judge decided a fitness comp...

You don't have to be in the billions to capture tax savings before year-end. After all, the 15 percent capital gain rate ends ...

What goes on behind the scenes of the Electoral College begins with the U.S. Constitution, winds its way through the State Cap...

Scotts Valley-based VirnetX Holding Corp. kept up its patent litigation winning streak against technology giants, persuading a...

Apple Inc. appeared to come out ahead in a high stakes case heard at the state Supreme Court Wednesday pitting Internet retail...

Judge Ronald M. Gould was assigned Wednesday to sit on the panel of a closely-watched climate change case pending at the 9th U...

The number of civil filings in the trial courts continued to decline slightly in fiscal 2010-11, in line with a multi-year tre...

Lacey's election marks the first time in the office's 162 year history that someone other than a Caucasian male will lead the ...

California currently has more prisoners on death row than any other state in the nation. And following Tuesday's vote to prese...

Mission West Properties Inc., a real estate investment trust, has agreed to sell certain real estate assets to a joint venture...

The phrase "Would You Rather...?" is a valid trademark that a board game company has been willfully infringing for nearly a de...

A San Jose magistrate judge awarded sanctions against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for discovery squabbles befo...