Prominent Los Angeles trial attorney Pierce H. O'Donnell has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out federal criminal charge...

The state Supreme Court suggested Tuesday that smokers who get lung cancer won't miss their deadline for filing suit simply be...

Criminal defense lawyers hired to represent indigent defendants are facing what many in California referred to as a dire finan...

After nearly four years of operating without a collective bargaining contract with the state, the union representing state law...

Whether a mishap is covered by travel insurance can be a tricky question to answer. By Deborah L. Stein of Simpson Thacher &am...

Five more cases were dismissed by San Francisco prosecutors Tuesday in the wake of a scandal involving police officers accused...

Ecuadorean plaintiffs trying to win the right to enforce a $9.5 billion judgment against Chevron Corp. point to the oil compan...

An "unlikely coalition" of law enforcement, civil liberties and faith-based groups will discuss Islamophobia at a forum today ...

The tiny community of Friant just became the epicenter of a court battle, with a pair of lawsuits seeking to stop Fresno Count...

Irvine-based hard-drive maker Western Digital Corp. agreed to buy competitor Hitachi Global Storage Technologies in a cash and...

"Smokey and the Bandit" and its sequel were box-office hits that still generate cash today, but a producer for the films claim...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a decade-long challenge to a law that removed books, movies and other media ou...

Firms face a raft of financial problems when partners depart. By Edwin B. Reeser. ...

An inmate's motion to reduce his or her prison sentence qualifies as a "collateral review" that stops the clock on the deadlin...

A person seeking the testing of crime-scene DNA can pursue that claim through a federal civil rights lawsuit, the U.S. Supreme...

A recent ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court makes it easier for prosecutors to submit dying declarations as evidence at trial. B...

Federal agencies can't hide sensitive information about internal procedures by invoking an exemption to the Freedom of Informa...

The Senate minted the California's newest federal judge Monday when it confirmed U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony J. Battaglia to...

Immigrants under deportation orders or those seeking to reopen their cases must be granted a bond hearing after 180 days of de...

Participation in committees and task forces gives judges an important say in judicial policymaking. By Richard D. Huffman of t...

Barely two years after he closed the books on Heller Ehrman LLP and took up with Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP's securities ...

The technology-fueled revolution in Egypt could herald a wave of democratization in the Middle East. By James Cooper of the Ca...

The number of Howrey partners in Northern California has dwindled to single digits, as more attorneys go elsewhere and uncerta...

Lawyers Mark J. Geragos and Brian S. Kabateck are refusing to pay more than $55,000 in legal fees to a law firm once associate...

The State Bar may soon post big, bold notices on its website warning the public against lawyers charged with stealing large am...

The company hired to build a statewide case management system for the California courts is facing three lawsuits that call int...

Commissioner Kathleen M. Jacobs makes her court comfortable for parties - no legalese, just the facts.

Senior Vice President & General Counsel for Blue Shield of California San Francisco ...

Sunnyvale-based Accuray Inc., which sells radiation-based surgical equipment, will buy radiation-therapy company TomoTherapy I...

Project management is all the rage in law firms. But will attorneys really let someone else manage their major matters? ...