As the number of convicted felons sentenced to death has declined across the nation, California has sent more inmates to death...
In what might be the final battle over open source software, a Nevada jury ruled Tuesday that Novell Inc. owns all Unix copyri...
Tens of thousands of employees who expected to go back to work on Friday received disappointing news Tuesday when the First Di...
The federal Environmental Protection Agency moved Tuesday to strike a rule easing requirements on major polluters to install s...
San Francisco's Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein filed a national class action lawsuit Wednesday in New York federal cou...
Carlsbad-based Callaway Golf Co. lost a bid for as much as $246 million in damages over its claim that Acushnet Co. - maker of...
The long-rumored transition of power at Townsend and Townsend and Crew became official Tuesday, when the firm announced litiga...
A senior U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney is set to go on trial Wednesday on allegations that he took bribes ...
A bankruptcy judge on Tuesday bolstered the efforts of creditors seeking an involuntary bankruptcy for companies controlled b...
Planned cuts at Los Angeles County Superior Court are "larger than necessary" and "overly pessimistic," according to a report ...
Perspective
Is Your Smoking Gun Shooting Blanks? E-Discovery Can Help You Decide
By Sharon Liangn
Technology empowers counsel with the means to independently verify that "smoking gun" document, write Daniel Garrie of ARC and...
Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School reviews George Schultz's new book, "Evicted! Property Rights and Eminent Domain." ...
Rick Rayl and Rensselaer Smith of Nossaman examine a recent case clarifying the scope of a mechanic's lien where work was perf...
Government
Judge Rules Government's Warrantless Wiretapping Was Illegal
By Riley Guerin
In a major blow to the Obama administration and the Bush administration before it, a San Francisco federal judge cast aside th...
Peter Stone and Alexander Lyon of Paul Hastings say reliance and causation issues continue to plague consumer class actions ev...
John C. Hueston, the one-time lead Enron prosecutor who blistered chairman Kenneth Lay on cross-examination, lost a trial, las...
The Charles Schwab Corp. broke the law when it increased its YieldPlus fund's investment in mortgage-backed securities from le...
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court made it clear Tuesday that shareholders can only file suit over excessive mutual fund fees in l...
Frances Rogers of Liebert Cassidy Whitmore provides guidance on the role of "mixed-motives" in discrimination cases and Califo...
Judge Diarmuid O'Scannlain makes no bones about his disagreements with 9th Circuit colleagues.
When the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles settled abuse allegations, it agreed to make public priests' personnel file...
California lawyers helped Irvine-based electronics and computing products distributor Avnet Inc. acquire San Jose-based Bell M...
Thomas Kohler and his former firm, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, largely escaped liability Monday for allegedly botching a pate...
The Justice Department announced Monday that it will not challenge San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc.'s acquisition of Tandberg...
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to take up the question of whether there was racial bias during jury selection for the ...
A San Francisco federal judge gave the green light to two classes of plaintiffs who have brought antitrust claims against defe...
District Attorney Rod Pacheco's conviction rates are becoming a key bone of contention in the increasingly heated race for Riv...
The Environmental Protection Agency announced an initiative Monday to look at the environmental impacts of a chemical widely u...
Three Californians are among the 2010 winners of the American Bar Association's Margaret Brent Women Lawyers of Achievement Aw...
Alan D. Bersin's appointment to head up the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency received high praise from supporters jus...