The Judicial Council announced the appointment of retired Shasta County Superior Court Judge Steve Jahr as the new director of...

Private landowners, such as Sierra Pacific Industries, complain that federal prosecutors are seeking excessive awards even as ...

General Counsel for California Sign Association Sacramento ...

Practice Fusion Inc., an electronic medical record company based in San Francisco, has appointed its first general counsel, th...

Congress needs to pass legislation urgently that permanently bans the sale of assault weapons. By Jeffrey A. Lowe ...

Famed civil rights lawyer Connie Rice told a congressional panel Wednesday about reforming anti-gang enforcement by cooperatin...

Dire warnings of a criminal justice system besieged under the plan to transition criminal offenders from the state to local le...

Insurers often contend that they have a duty to accept reasonable settlement demands, but no duty to propose settlement terms....

A San Jose magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered the jury be told that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. failed to prevent the dest...

Resist the impulse to persuade, and resist the impulse to accept the offers made by the IRS agent. By Bruce Givner and Owen Ka...

California justices will hear oral arguments Thursday on an appeal by the funders of the hit TV show "Nash Bridges." A jury in...

The 9th Circuit announced Wednesday it would reconsider en banc a 2-1 panel ruling in February that forced DNA sampling is con...

A key moment has arrived for the Toyota sudden unintended acceleration litigation as both the federal and state court judges o...

Chip designer Rambus Inc. struck out Wednesday at the U.S. International Trade Commission in its bid to hold several technolog...

Defense lawyers are challenging the State Bar's request to back out of two dozen discipline plea bargains previously agreed to...

A string of wins in capital cases in recent months has some death penalty foes feeling cautiously optimistic. Since December, ...

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Federal securities class actions during the first half of 2012 fell slightly compared to last year, according to a new report....

Best Best & Krieger LLP inked a 10-year, 13,742 square foot lease at Lakeshore Towers at 18101 Von Karman Ave. in Irvine.

The SEC's whistle-blower program's promise of cash rewards has upped the number and quality of reported tips. It's also spurre...

Judge Don Franchi ran for judge in part because he wanted to see more consistency in family law.

What constitutes "disparagement" of another's products sufficient to trigger coverage under the personal injury of advertising...

Agencies get more public relations value by announcing big fines than they do by following through and collecting them. By Mar...

By all appearances, the U.S. solicitor general is contemplating an appeal of Nosal to the U.S. Supreme Court. By Vince ...

By a vote of 33-2, on May 29, in a rare display of bipartisan unity, the state Senate passed legislation that would legalize s...

It is a record that nobody wants to hold: this month GlaxoSmithKline became the latest entrant into the "billion dollar" fine ...

How viable are federal securities fraud class actions predicated on government investigations and whistleblower lawsuits? By J...

University of Virginia School of Law assistant dean Mary Elizabeth Magill will take over for Larry Kramer this fall. ...

Managing partner of Polsinelli Shughart PC's Los Angeles office, Lisa Greer Quateman, and other attorneys discuss the transiti...

Malibu-based JAKKS Pacific Inc., America's third largest publicly traded toy company, has hired a new general counsel, sources...