Hearings on whether to dismiss a $2.3 million verdict against Dole Food Co Inc. began Monday, with Dole lawyers calling plaint...

A lawsuit over a controversial database which many insurers have long used to calculate payments to providers who treat patien...

Superior Court Judge Timothy Volkmann brings his Wisconsin charm to his courtroom.

Daniel Nishigaya, who once worked as an aide to O.J. Simpson's criminal defense team, spent 14 years as a prosecutor before ta...

Richard Prince's "Nurse in Hollywood #4" (2004) is at the center of a lawsuit filed by CNET Network founder Halsey Minor again...

General Counsel of the Los Angeles Unified School District Los Angeles ...

U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner in Sacramento Friday announced the formation of a new unit to handle international and domestic ...

A court in British Columbia Friday denied Lions Gate Entertainment's effort to use a poison pill to prevent a hostile takeover...

A team of Palo Alto-based Simpson Thacher & Bartlett lawyers represented New York-based web services company AOL Inc. as i...

Private lawyers exercising the power of the state under contingency fee contracts cannot be expected to act in the public's in...

Two years after selling his practice to devote himself fully to his pro-bono work, Michael Rapkin decided to hang out another ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected a long-held patent covering the critical building blocks for genetic science...

"Kings of Tort" chronicles the sordid tale of judicial bribery and political intrigue in Mississippi, long known as one of the...

The legal industry continued to shed jobs in April according to data released Friday by the U.S. Department of Labor, counter ...

Kathleen Clark of Servant Lawyership catches up with the players in James Woods medical malpractice action that arose from the...

The State Bar Board of Governors will consider more than a dozen new rules, many of which have stirred controversy, when it me...

Last-minute scrambling in the Heller Ehrman bankruptcy last week led the firm to six settlements with former clients as it clo...

Jerold Oshinsky and Kenneth Lee of Jenner Block discuss the surge of wage and hour class action lawsuits in California. ...

The fight to take control of potentially the largest mass tort in U.S. history heated up last week, as lawyers divided into tw...

An appellate court's reinstatement of a malicious prosecution claim against Manatt, Phelps & Phillips dealt a blow to the ...

Kagan, 50, was seen as the frontrunner for the position ever since Stevens announced his retirement in April. ...

Miriam A. Vogel, retired 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice and senior of counsel at Morrison & Foerster, spoke of her l...

The attorneys of boutique Cypress welcomed colleagues, clients and art-lovers to a Duo Artists Exhibit on Thursday at their Lo...

Sheppard Snags Manatt Bankruptcy Co-Chair Bankruptcy partner Alan M. Feld moved to Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton's ...

Superior Court Judge Robert J. Kearney said he tries to create a stress-reducing atmosphere and listen to all sides in the cri...

Those familiar with the internal workings of the U.S. Supreme Court say the Obama administration may be overstating the import...

Eastern District of California U.S. Attorney Benjamin Wagner has been selected as one of four to serve on the Attorney General...

The Senate Judiciary Committee approved Magistrate Judge Kimberly J. Mueller's nomination Thursday to be a district judge in C...

Plaintiffs who allege they were kidnapped, detained or tortured by Argentinean state security agents at the direction of Merce...

No Doubt's claims against video game publisher Activision Blizzard over the rock band's appearance in a game was stayed Thursd...