The new suit alleges that the district attorney's office imposes policies on its prosecutors that violate their disclosure res...

The sole district judge in Riverside, Virginia Phillips pays special attention to the juror experience.

A class of indirect purchasers of LCD panels has reached settlement agreements totaling $571 with three defendants.

A female partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm has moved one step closer to a sex discrimination trial against her ...

Law schools are under pressure to provide more practical training to their students, but professors seem to be left out of tha...

Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice LLP announced Monday the hiring of intellectual property litigator Behrooz Shariati for th...

San Francisco is considering adopting New York's stop-and-frisk program. By Alan Schlosser of the ACLU of Northern California ...

Businesses making large money deposits increasingly are being targeted by cyber thieves. By Julie Bonnel-Rogers of Silicon Val...

A Glendale attorney faces possible disbarment after he allegedly bilked an 88-year-old widow out of more than $407,000, sticki...

John J. Rice, a former federal prosecutor who nearly became a U.S. Attorney, joins the San Diego offices of Ballard. ...

In a battle over securing Monterey County's future water supplies, local officials have sued a water utility over its bid to b...

Marita Grant, a law student at Howard University, has been interested in public interest law and juvenile welfare ever since s...

In a memo to State Bar leaders, top attorney-discipline prosecutor Jayne Kim said her office is taking a second look at even m...

After the Obamacare decision it should be abundantly clear how critical it is who sits in the Supreme Court catbird seat. By G...

A decision by the California attorney general's office giving a police officers association the go-ahead to sue over pension r...

A man on death row for nearly two decades should receive a retrospective competency hearing and possibly a new trial, the stat...

In a pre-trial ruling, a class of 15,000 current and former security guards has been awarded $89.7 million in wages, interest ...

Do brokers have an on-going duty to ensure the existence of insurance coverage? By John J. McLeod and Daniel H. Rylaarsdam of ...

Judge Gerald Rosenberg keep his chambers meticulous despite his heavy civil caseload.

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

General Counsel for Reddit Inc. San Francisco ...

The FTC has been flexing its muscles recently to ensure the public that it's working to protect private consumer information. ...

Andy Griffith's death spurs memories of a time before lawyers' lives were held hostage by technology. By Dan Lawton of Lawton ...

Courts sometimes cross-apply legal doctrines from other areas of jurisprudence; such is the case with willful blindness in cop...

A case in which prosecutors sought $187 million in damages from a massive wildfire has settled on the eve of trial, but the co...

The momentum has shifted, at least for now, in the smartphone legal battle pitting Apple Inc. against Google Inc. and its alli...

Although the recession affected business for independent mediators, many have come up with innovative ways to sell their work ...

The legal jobs tally remained at 1.1 million after a slight uptick of 200 jobs in June, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor ...

A growing chorus of appellate justices hoping to hold off on new appointments could lead to longer than usual vacancies, or co...

While hydraulic fracturing has been around for decades, its incidence and effects were unknown, until recently, to many, inclu...