Perkins Coie LLP's Northern California offices are on a hiring spree this week. ...

The state agency that regulates health care insurance plans announced Tuesday that Director Cindy Ehnes is stepping down in a ...

Washington, D.C.-based Dickstein Shapiro LLP formally announced the opening of its Silicon Valley office Tuesday with six inte...

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris filed a friend-of-the-court brief Monday in Richmond, Va., urging the U.S. Court of Appeals ...

After years of legislative deadlock, the U.S. Senate passed a bill that would make significant changes in the country's patent...

Law firm compensation systems can be very murky, making it difficult for prospective partners to know what to expect. By Edwin...

Over the last two and a half years or so, some 30 ex-prisoners have had or are having tattoos removed, thanks to a UC Irvine p...

Former McGuire Woods LLP partner Michelle R. Walker pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to neglecting tax payments of more t...

Is an overstatement of basis on a tax return an "omission of gross income?" By Bruce Givner and Owen Kaye of Givner & Kaye...

Alameda County Superior Court was wrong to lay off a group of employees without first consulting their union, a state appellat...

Employers need to be careful that their screening processes do not have a discriminatory impact. By Scott A. Freedman and Jess...

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...