Hector Villagra, director of the Orange County office of the American Civil Liberties Union of Southern California, has been a...
Telecom giants secured immunity from Congress for their alleged participation in the government's Terrorist Surveillance Progr...
Sacramento's largest law firm, Downey Brand, is expanding westward, opening an office in San Francisco with two environmental ...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo concludes his list of six employment issues small and start-up businesses should know. ...
Bruce Smyth of Charlston, Revich & Wollitz addresses the challenging issue of spoliation of evidence, where outcomes befor...
A Republican senator from Alabama has lifted a controversial hold on more than 70 executive branch nominations, including the ...
LOS ANGELES - In an effort to improve efficiency, the Division of the State Architect is developing a program to transfer its ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Ninth Circuit Upholds Strip Searches For All Prisoners
By Laura Ernden
Breaking with its previous rulings, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday upheld the constitutionality of routine s...
Daniel Garrie of ARC and Yoav Griver of Zeichner Ellman & Krause advise companies on information management principles to ...
Robert McKennon of McKennon|Schindler analyzes Montour v. Hartford Life & Accident, one of the 9th Circuit's most s...
Defendants can get a good deal in Judge Brett G. London's misdemeanor arraignment court.
Law Practice
Defections From Large to Small Firms Expected To Continue
By Rebecca U. Cho
As client discontent with billing rates reached new heights in the economic downturn, some big-firm lawyers responded in recen...
Lawyers are warned to be on the lookout for a new phishing campaign, Red Condor, a Northern California-based security provider...
A Swedish man indicted last year for hacking into the computer systems of San Jose-based Cisco Systems Inc. and NASA may be pr...
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Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is sloughing off its wealth management practice, but is also helping it f...
Jonathan Michaels of Michaels Law Group asks whether Toyota's gas pedal recall is an appropriate remedy or merely a quick-fix ...
James Wong of Chinney Capital says China is taking baby steps towards making the yuan a universally accepted reserve currency....
Nina Marino of Kaplan Marino says the limitations created by Brady v. Maryland on a prosecutor's duty to disclose does ...
Mark Ross of Integreon highlights the major ethical issues that arise from outsourcing legal work. ...
Letter to the Editor
Attack on the Federalist Society Event Was Disappointing
By Sharon Liangn
David DeGroot, President of the Federalist Society's San Francisco Chapter, says comment about its January 28 event lacked sub...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo lists six legal concerns that small and start-up businesses are at risk of overlooking ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Female Wrestlers' Title IX Suit Can Proceed
By Laura Ernden
A federal appellate panel Monday revived a class-action lawsuit brought by female students who were excluded from the UC Davis...
Prosecutors can try an accomplice for murder, even after a jury convicted the triggerman of the lesser crime of voluntary mans...
Two partners in the Redwood City office of Fish & Richardson, David Miclean and Katherine Prescott, have left for new ven...
As a prosecutor, Thomas Rubinson followed a hunch that a man he had prosecuted was wrongly dealt a life sentence then he fixe...
A one-of-a-kind program at the 2nd District Court of Appeal has been quietly helping those who can't afford representation see...
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of SanDisk Corp.Milpitas, Calif. ...