After a 19-year career as a staff attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Ann Brick plans to ...

The state has ripped off hundreds of millions of dollars from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund, potentially pu...

Legal Aid groups across the state will soon feel the pinch of staggeringly low interest rates, which have decimated the pool o...

The economic downturn that hurt all attorneys turned out to be particularly damaging to intellectual property lawyers in 2009,...

Irvine-based Broadcom has agreed to pay $160.5 million to settle a stock-options backdating lawsuit brought by shareholders wh...

Daniel Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers concludes his article on maintaining effective information management for e-di...

M.C. Sungaila of Horvitz & Levy concludes her article on women's rights and explains the State's role in preventing human ...

Meaghan Kent and Joshua Kaufman of Venable instruct on how to gather information for copyright infringement litigation. ...

Rochelle Spandorf of Davis Wright Tremaine wraps up her examination of California regulators' enforcement of franchise disclos...

Attorney Jeffrey Lowe comments on the claim that healthcare reform cannot be achieved without tort reform. ...

Some good news for a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals battered by lawyers' gripes about slow, rude judges came in December, w...

With the state's $21 billion budget shortfall expected to take the spotlight in 2010, the legislative agendas for law enforcem...

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

Third of five parts. Legal-aid programs are springing up around the country to assist homeless veterans like Michael Hurt, pic...

Family law specialist Mary Ann Grilli heads back to family court after two years as a probate judge.

Federal prosecutors have moved to disqualify Cooley Godward Kronish attorneys from the defense of former Brocade Communication...

San Francisco-based U.S. magistrate judge Edward M. Chen is one of six Obama administration nominees whose names were returned...

New Laws of 2010 ...

A divided San Francisco-based appellate court Monday sided with a judge who revoked a defendant's medical marijuana card as a ...

San Bernardino County Superior Court will have a new presiding judge Jan. 1: Judge Douglas M. Elwel. Judge James C. McGuire ...

A federal judge has granted summary judgment to several movie studios in their lawsuit against the operator of file-sharing We...

A Coronado cop who tasered from behind a man dressed only in boxer shorts must answer the man's civil lawsuit, a 9th U.S. Circ...

Ana Tagvoryan and Joshua Briones of DLA Piper delve into the largely uncharted territory of e-discovery and social networking ...

Richard Kellner and Karen Liao of Kabateck Brown Kellner ask why there have been so few class action arbitrations since Gentry...

Daniel Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers provides guidance on maintaining effective information management for e-discov...

M.C. Sungaila of Horvitz & Levy says a landmark human rights decision against Mexico further defines women's rights and re...

It was an unprecedented year for the California courts, which for the first time in history shut their doors once a month to m...

Congress introduced a host of legislation during 2009 with the potential to impact the practice of the law on many fronts. But...

In the midst of a recession in which millions of Americans are struggling to keep up on credit card and mortgage debt, the fed...

Rochelle Spandorf of Davis Wright Tremaine examines California regulators' enforcement of franchise disclosure requirements. ...