Lawyers specializing in the California Environmental Quality Act could see drastic changes in their practice if amendments sou...
Ruling the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, 20 U.S. bankruptcy judges signed an opinion Monday allowing a leg...
The Justice Department is collaborating with the California attorney general's office and the San Mateo County district attorn...
Perspective
What You Need to Know About First-Party Insurance Bad Faith Lawsuits
By Sharon Liangn
The tort of insurance bad faith is alive and well in California. By Joseph E. Foss of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP ...
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.