A coalition of publicly-owned utilities and local governments from San Francisco to Modesto filed suit Thursday to block a Pac...

Former Attorney General John D. Ashcroft is not shielded by prosecutorial immunity from a lawsuit by a former terror suspect, ...

Attorneys defending former KB Home top executive Bruce Karatz from allegations of stock options backdating dug into the prosec...

Kirk Kerkorian's Tracinda Corp. has agreed to pay $8.1 million to settle a long-running class action lawsuit by shareholders w...

Kristi Remington of Blank Rome examines the Obama Administration's steady shift from health care reform to health insurance re...

Hon. Gretchen Taylor (Ret.) explains why non-conflictual approaches may be the only practical solution for overcoming family c...

Brian Kabateck and Frances Ma of Kabateck Brown Kellner tackle the issue of insurance coverage for those who have lost their h...

The venture tech and life sciences lawyers are a rare defection from the Silicon Valley boutique. ...

Wells Fargo, fighting claims it misrepresented risks involved in the sale of $67.5 billion in mortgage-backed securities, poin...

Lawyers talked about their courtroom victories at a breakfast legal education event Thursday hosted by the Daily Journal in do...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A San Francisco criminal defense lawyer wants the Administrative Office of the Courts to be more forthcoming about how it eval...

Juvenile Court Judge Carolyn Kirkwood navigated the judicial system herself to see how parents feel.

A federal judge approved a $9.5 million settlement between social networking site Facebook Inc. and class action plaintiffs We...

24 Hour Fitness has reached a settlement with plaintiffs who filed a class action alleging the chain of gyms continued to cha...

A Sacramento attorney has been arraigned on tax evasion charges, the U.S. attorney's office announced Wednesday. ...

Video game publisher Activision has filed an anti-SLAPP motion seeking to dismiss a lawsuit the rock band No Doubt filed again...

The criminal trial of KB Home's former top executive for stock options backdating picked up tempo Wednesday, as a government w...

The prospects aren't looking good for a controversial law professor who sued the State Bar in San Francisco County Superior Co...

A lawsuit seeking to overturn the highly controversial U.S. policy excluding gays from openly serving in the military picked u...

Helen Sklar of Stone & Grzegorek discusses the problems in our immigration court system and how to deal with inappropriate...

If global warming lawsuits gain traction in the courts, many expect they will be met with a wave of coverage litigation, write...

Maggie Jessup of Platform Strategy explains the benefits of a book deal and how attorneys can use their experience to join thi...

Practitioner Dana Cephas says both plaintiffs and defendants should applaud, not criticize, the recent decision on attorney wo...

With the filing window to open April 1, C. Matthew Schulz, Paul Virtue and David Serwer of Baker & McKenzie advise employe...

The legal battle between a union representing Los Angeles County's prosecutors and District Attorney Steve Cooley appears to b...

Negative reviews on the popular business-review Web site Yelp.com have given way to class action lawsuits, the most recent in ...

A case the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up could end up influencing the political debate over a possible vacancy on the court....

Patent litigation star Matthew Powers is on a losing streak for major client Microsoft Corp. A jury in Tyler, Texas awarded Vi...

A man who fell under a bus will receive $7.25 million from the Orange County Transportation Authority in a settlement reached ...