Two video game developers recently fired from a studio owned by publisher Activision sued their former employer for $36 millio...

The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday approved the nomination of Santa Clara County Superior Court Lucy H. Koh to be a judge...

A bipartisan group of senators unveiled the details of an agreement on a patent reform bill Thursday, marking another step in ...

The State Bar's Board of Governors is slated to vote on several contentious new and amended Rules of Professional Conduct when...

At a time when state budget cuts have all but eliminated government-funded re-entry programs for newly released inmates, membe...

Witness statements taken by lawyers or their representatives are not protected by attorney-client privilege and can be turned ...

An attorney defending former Brocade chief executive Gregory L. Reyes used a prosecution witness to hammer home some of the ke...

Denise Madigan was sick of writing reports that sat on clients' shelves. So, at a time when mediation was still in its infancy...

Pat Goughan and Madeline Stone of Holland & Knight discuss approval of the country's first power plant permit with enforce...

Kathleen McKee and Greg Rodriguez of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost explain California's mandatory green construction regulatio...

San Francisco lawyers this week grappled with an unusual request from San Francisco Superior Court's presiding judge to help t...

Civil rights attorney Ben Rosenfeld calls it unfortunate that harassing the homeless has proven too effective an election form...

The Securities and Exchange Commission announced it halted a $14.7 million Ponzi scheme targeting retired Los Angeles County b...

The big-screen adaptation of Clive Cussler's "Sahara" lost an estimated $100 million in gross ticket sales. While no follow-up...

TiVo Inc. won a major victory Thursday when a federal appeals court upheld a Texas judge's contempt ruling against adversaries...

Doctors as witnesses often form the crux of a case; Alan Radnor's new book provides guidance on how to conduct effective cross...

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

Jail inmate Marlon Martinez, who died in his cell on Christmas Day after complaining of deputy abuse, was killed by a heroin o...

NEW YORK - Delinquency rates grew in all sectors of commercial real estate during February, but they increased at the slowest ...

OAKLAND - Officials announced planning is underway to convert the eastbound descent of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge fr...

TEMPE, Ariz. - Economic activity in the services sector improved for the second consecutive month, according to a report by th...

Kenneth A. Goldman of Reed Smith in Los Angeles Wednesday dodged a serious conflict of interest claim as a state appellate pan...

Relatives of the San Diego family killed in a fiery crash last summer, after their loaned Lexus unexpectedly accelerated, are ...

Video game publisher Electronic Arts is hoping to push the pause button on a class action accusing the publisher of improperly...

A former analyst with the Administrative Office of the Courts has filed an employment lawsuit against the agency, claiming a s...

Loeb & Loeb is launching a practice in video game entertainment and announced on Wednesday the hiring of a key partner to ...

Days after the chairman of a congressional investigative committee said documents provided by ex-Toyota attorney Dimitrios P. ...

Barton C. Gaut, an associate justice with the 4th District Court of Appeal in Riverside, retired last week. In his 13 years on...

Two former prosecutors on the California Supreme Court hammered away Wednesday at a deputy district attorney from Contra Costa...

The U.S. Supreme Court struggled Wednesday over the question of whether former officials of foreign countries can be sued in U...