If mediation is an arthroscopic procedure and trial is major surgery, Judge Patricia Collins is a doctor who's operated in bot...

Entertainment executive Ben Silverman, who as a young television agent helped sell the U.S. rights for the hit game show "Who...

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, often categorized as too liberal and out of sync with the more cons...

Danny Davis made his name as an indefatigable criminal defense lawyer who beat back heinous charges against an accused child m...

After years as a fierce advocate as an attorney for the poor, Santa Clara Judge Diane Ritchie is learning to step back and obs...

Oakland-based Center for Environmental Health announced a first-of-its-kind settlement Wednesday with 40 major retailers over ...

The massive antitrust multidistrict class action against makers of Static Random Access Memory computer devices is set for a s...

Two more attorneys have been placed on inactive status as the result of a State Bar dragnet focused on loan modification fraud...

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi on Wednesday tore into District Attorney Kamala Harris over her recent efforts to ma...

Law enforcers took a $1.75 million bite out of PETCO Animal Supplies Inc. to settle penalties and costs from a civil case alle...

The American Bar Association will honor Kenneth Babcock, who heads the Orange County-based Public Law Center, at its upcoming ...

James A. Ardaiz, the administrative presiding justice of the 5th District Court of Appeal whose artistic vision led to the lim...

Departing U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of California Karen Hewitt has signed on as a partner in the San Diego offic...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that companies being held liable for groundwater contamination in the San Gabriel ...

Lawyers representing Toyota Motor Corp. have employed a tough-as-nails discovery strategy in the past that has drawn fines, sa...

Scores of lawsuits against British Petroleum and other companies involved in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill have already been fi...

A terminated employee proceeds to trial on claims that her employer interfered and retaliated against her right to take medica...

Damon Rubin says a recent California Supreme Court case will guide attorneys and courts in applying the commercial speech exem...

Tim Tosta of Luce Forward reflects on the world of a lawyer, which is at times, shockingly brutal. ...

In "The War on Terror and the Laws of War," six legal scholars with experience as military officers apply their unique experti...

A San Francisco civil attorney facing a murder charge in Riverside County is asking the California Supreme Court to dismiss hi...

California's dysfunctional death penalty system took center stage at the California Supreme Court this week, with the justices...

San Diego County family law judge Sim von Kalinowski followed his father into the legal profession but chose a different pract...

Landlord Douglas Emmett Inc. secured a law firm and a legal consulting company for its 10-story office building at 8383 Wilshi...

Theodore P. Shield, 1920-2010

Patricia A. Pinto, a lawyer at the Orange County Legal Aid Society in Santa Ana, helps homeowners get mortgage loan modificati...

San Francisco District Attorney Kamala D. Harris has created a new unit to examine the potential consequences reports of law e...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's intervention helped fuel settlements that will allow a dozen disabled tenants to remain in their ...

Northern California partner David Cheng is the new chair of Nixon Peabody's 15-attorney China practice, the firm announced Tue...

Attorneys representing California high-technology and biotechnology companies are anxious to see whether new revisions to Chin...