Attorneys with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fenwick & West persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Fri...

A state appellate court severely rebuked a San Mateo County judge Friday for repeatedly sentencing a family law lawyer to jail...

A Fresno federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to water pumping restrictions out of the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delt...

A former State Bar employee was sentenced Friday to 2 years and eight months in state prison for stealing $675,000 from the ag...

Biotechs and bankruptcy - not a common duo. But these days, bankruptcy can seem like an attractive option, especially consider...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

The message is clear: Big firm job security is a thing of the past. Lawyers, whether seasoned or new to the field, have been s...

Celebrity defense attorney Brian Oxman has received two years of probation for filing a frivolous civil rights claim in a divo...

Job losses in the legal sector hit a five-month low in January, falling to 1,100 from 2,500 a month earlier, according to prel...

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District Attorney Dolores Carr explains why she used a peremptory challenge against Superior Court Judge Andrea Bryan. ...

Ken Boehm of the National Legal and Policy Center says the probate battle that began with Anna Nicole Smith's marriage to J. H...

John Browning of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons follows up his account of botched robberies with tales of unsuccessful get...

Michael Stewart and Isaiah Weedn of Sheppard Mullin advise on how to reduce your legal expenses in this challenging economic e...

Jay Feinman of Rutgers University of Law exposes how insurance companies violate rules for handling claims in his new book,

Weeks after an Oregon jury handed down a punishing $5.5 million verdict in the first trial over medical devices called "pain p...

Dean Hanley of Foley Hoag examines the SEC's recently published interpretive release on public company disclosures related to ...

Los Angeles Superior Court could begin laying off 330 court employees as early as next month, in the first of what could be se...

Pat Connolly is a colorful Los Angeles County judge, and his language is just the start of it.

But U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy, speaking at Pepperdine University School of Law, dodged direct questions ab...

SACRAMENTO - Through Feb. 12, the walls of the hallway between the governor's and lieutenant governor's offices in the Capitol...

In a case closely watched by California's trial attorneys, the Illinois Supreme Court on Thursday struck down that state's dam...

A judge dismissed accusations lodged by Robin Williams that he had a $6 million guarantee for a film called "A Couple of Dicks...

The U.S. Department of Justice still does not like the proposed class action settlement that would allow Google Inc. to create...

Bay Area attorneys with Latham & Watkins, with assistance from Morrison & Foerster, advised Yahoo on its $225 million ...

President Obama formally nominated Orange County Superior Court Judge Josephine S. Tucker to the federal bench on Thursday. ...

The Securities and Exchange Commission's decision came at the coaxing of a federal judge and marks the end of the pursuit of t...

The rate of class certifications in California plummeted more than 50 percent between 2000 and 2005, according to an analysis ...

After more than two decades as a judge, William D. Stein works hard as a neutral to ensure opposing parties have ample opportu...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal's San Francisco office has a new leader in Sonia Martin, a 36-year-old litigator who started...