A new landscape of performance measures that attorneys should know. By Kimberly Lovett of the University of California, San Di...

In a case that heads to trial this week, attorneys for Thomas Nickerson say the paraplegic should have been covered by his acc...

Former state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno confirmed that he's joining Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, mainly ser...

Are the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed cost-cutting measures too good to be true? By A. Jeff Ifrah and Jeff Hamlin of I...

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has given preliminary approval to a $13.5 million settlement in favor of Dreyer's Grand...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to strike a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision setting parameters on whe...

Which ever way the federal government plans to handle it, the Obama administration's proposal to scrap Fannie Mae and Freddie ...

How companies employing behavioral targeting to serve consumers with ads and content can stay clear of litigation. By Dominiqu...

Commercial property owners are increasingly taking action against large lessees to recoup maintenance and other costs, real es...

In his fiscal 2011 budget proposal, President Barack Obama wants to end patent settlements between pharmaceutical and generic ...

Corporations can't block access to reports filed with the government based on the right of personal privacy, the U.S. Supreme ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jacob Blea III may have taken some hits for a decision in a divorce case that was reversed...

A judge has given his thumbs up to a $545 million settlement of a long-running insurance class action, rejecting a consumer ad...

Arbitration agreements have no power over an employee’s right to seek an informal hearing before the Labor Commission for unpa...

A federal appellate decision that creates a circuit split on how bankruptcy courts deal with auto loans is wrong and ought to ...

Winston & Strawn LLP's hiring of a large group of Howrey LLP partners is under consideration by Winston's partnership, and...

In a ruling that could expose more deep-pocket defendants to lawsuits, the state Supreme Court held Monday that a truck driver...

As Charlie Sheen and his former television bosses continue to spar in public over the decision to suspend filming of his hit s...

The U.S. Supreme Court waded into a dispute Monday between Stanford University and a multinational biotech firm over patent ri...

Commissioner Matthew St. George started out as a gay activist, but later realized living openly while pursuing a legal career ...

San Diego County Judge Dwayne K. Moring draws on his previous careers as a prosecutor and a criminal defense lawyer to come to...

San Francisco's new district attorney is hoping he can reform the city's criminal justice system and cut costs by diverting mo...

Attorneys for the Department of Justice told a federal judge in papers filed Monday that President Barack Obama's decision to ...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP is facing a proposed class-action employment discrimination lawsuit filed Thursday in U.S. District ...

A U.S. District Judge ruled against a motion to dismiss brought by the church in a lawsuit filed by a man who claims a priest ...

The United States government asked the federal court to bar a San Diego tax lawyer and a San Diego accountant from promoting s...

The U.S. Supreme Court reminds us of the important age-old principle of agency deference. By Felicia Yu and Kathy J. Huang of ...

The statistics are an encouraging sign for proponents of diversity on the bench, underscore the slowness of attempts to change...

Chinese authorities have downplayed the uprisings in the Middle East, rather than resort to censorship. By James Wong of Chin...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has appealed a federal court decision in the Southern District of Texas that ordered t...