Federal prosecutors rolled out a series of motions late Thursday disclosing plans to appeal all but one of the dismissals of c...

Those with an eye on the budget said they expect Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's proposal today to include cuts to social safety-...

The Obama administration plans to renominate U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen to be a district court judge in San Francisc...

The strong performance of initial public offerings in 2009 is expected to encourage more private companies to take the plunge ...

The California Supreme Court seemed inclined to help a 67-year-old janitor Thursday whose claim of age discrimination was wron...

Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley will likely find out next week whether the U.S. Supreme Court will hear his ...

Michael Weinsten and Miles Feldman of Liner Grode examine California's recent attempt to fight the 'stalkerazzi' and curb aggr...

Attorney Howard Hoffenberg discusses a recent federal decision enabling members of the public to seek large monetary awards fo...

Professor Laurie Levenson and Judge Alex Ricciardulli join forces to provide the only resource that compares CALCRIM to CALJIC...

The current law school recruiting model is broken and needs fixing, according to a report released Thursday by the National As...

Nearly 3 million low-income adults in California lost key medical benefits, including optometry and psychological services, wh...

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera Thursday was sworn into office for his third term at a public ceremony in City Hall...

The last three years have brought whirlwind change for Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal. The tremors have been felt firmwide,...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has refused to take back, or soften, an unusually gruff order it made in December accus...

Roman Polanski's lawyers will get a hearing on whether the director should be sentenced in absentia for sex crimes under a sta...

Total venture investment in clean technology was down and overall deal making was steeply up in 2009, according to figures rel...

U.S. District Judge Philip S. Gutierrez of Los Angeles was wrong to deny class certification to labor union workers seeking to...

The California Supreme Court didn't seem eager Wednesday to stand in the way of post-9/11 security by extending broad free spe...

A former human resources official at Brocade Communications Systems Inc. will be the first Silicon Valley executive to serve a...

A reformed gang member-turned-criminal defense attorney, whom prosecutors accused of working as a middleman for a clique of a ...

James Wong, U.S. Counsel for Chinney Capital, lays out the steps for and benefits of setting up regional headquarters in China...

Julie Waterstone of Southwestern Law School explains why the 'Civil Gideon' statute should be extended to education and school...

Jennifer Keller of Keller Rackauckas says former prosecutors bring just as much bias into judicial office as ex-public defende...

Federal regulators in California encountered a virtual hurricane of investment fraud schemes in 2009. They ripped more than $4...

Family law attorneys Mitchell Jacobs and Jami Fosgate examine In re Marriage of Kacik and the issue of spousal and chil...

One of the nation's highest-profile trials, featuring a challenge to California's same-sex marriage ban, will be broadcast to ...

Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School says the view that a growing public deficit transfers wealth from the young people to the o...

David Rosen of Rose, Klein & Marias explains why he believes litigation increased against the insurance industry after the...

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

Mark Labaton of Kreindler & Kreindler says criticism that the House's bill does not adequately regulate credit-rating agen...