A recent hospital stay makes difficulties in communications strikingly apparent. By Richard M. Mosk of the California Court of...
Is prosecuting politicians who have been less than candid going too far? By Steve Berenson of Thomas Jefferson School of Law...
San Joaquin Valley water agencies and the U.S. Department of the Interior will head to court today over the federal agency's d...
Northern District Chief Judge James S. Ware is expected to rule by Tuesday whether former Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker's same-...
An exception to the attorney-client privilege does not apply to the trust relationship between Native American tribes and the ...
For years, California defense lawyers felt like they were tilting at windmills trying to get parole for clients who had served...
Alios BioPharma Inc. could earn more than $1.5 billion from a collaboration with Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. to develop ground...
The American Bar Association notified University of La Verne College of Law Monday that it would strip the Ontario-based campu...
The U.S. Supreme Court's 4-4 deadlocked vote Monday denied a San Diego man's bid at citizenship by challenging a disparate, ge...
A federal district judge in Washington state sentenced a suspended Los Angeles tax attorney to 32 months in prison and ordered...
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it would weigh a case involving allegations that New Orleans prosecutors violated thei...
Los Angeles Special Weapons and Tactics officers who accidentally shot and killed 19-month-old Suzie Lopez in July 2005 did no...
Law schools must make public much greater - and more accurate - information about their recent graduates' jobs and salaries, u...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether a federal district judge has the authority to order a sentence to run...
The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld a Nevada government ethics law requiring public officials to recuse themselves from ...
Barbara J. Parker has taken over as acting Oakland City Attorney. ...
In another in its long line of cases related to federal habeas review of state convictions, the U.S. Supreme Court announced M...
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a 9th Circuit Court of Appeals decision on the tax ramifications of a family's ...
Vice president, general counsel and secretary for The McClatchy Company Sacramento ...
Foster City-based Gilead Sciences Inc. announced late Friday that the biopharmaceutical company received a subpoena from the U...
The Association of Corporate Counsel's colorful longtime general counsel, Susan Hackett, will leave at the end of the month to...
A San Francisco law firm on Monday filed the first challenge to the Department of Homeland Security's controversial policy of ...
A divided U.S. Supreme Court limited the field of liable parties in private securities-fraud cases Monday, holding that only t...
Superior Court Judge Kern County (Shafter) ...
Family
A Child-Centered Response to the Elkins Family Law Task Force
By Genevieve Knollen
Appointed children's attorneys are essential to child-centered representation. By Amy M. Pellman, Robert N. Jacobs and Dara K....
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Litigation
Allegations of 'Wind Theft' Chase Proliferation of Turbines
By Jason W. Armstrong
Land-use and environmental lawyers say accusations of wind theft among neighboring wind farms are on the rise, and many expect...
Vice president of legal affairs and general counsel for Align Technology Inc. San Jose ...
Whether hearing criminal matters or parent truancy cases, Judge Gloria F. Rhynes prides herself on weighing the human element
Alternative Dispute Resolution
Making Arbitration Work for You: Three Important Tools
By Genevieve Knollen
Designing your ideal arbitration is as easy as one, two, three. By Barbara Reeves Neal and Richard C. Neal of JAMS in Southern...