James Wong of Chinney Capital recaps President Obama's first visit to China and examines its international significance. ...
A federal judge in New Orleans has ruled that the levee failure that caused devastating flood damage to parts of New Orleans a...
The Justice Department's new powers to obtain information from government fraud suspects and share it with other agencies and ...
Although Heller Ehrman's retirement plan is likely free of a $13.8 million lawsuit threatened by the law firm's creditors, som...
Former McKesson Corp. attorney Jay M. Lapine beat back charges of securities fraud Thursday when a jury acquitted him of all c...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Kozinski Orders Gay Spousal Benefits
By John Roemer
In a blistering order Thursday, the chief judge of the 9th Circuit tried to reconcile the rights of married gay U.S. governmen...
Critics say insured employees who are denied benefits should be able to sue and seek punitive damages. ...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Disabled Turn to State for Help, But State Turns Them Away
By Evan George
San Jose resident Maggie Vondras has never been to Indiana. But when an insurer tried to cancel her benefits, that state swoop...
A lawyer who was removed from a Wal-Mart class action case three years ago has asked a three-judge panel to reinstate her defa...
San Francisco County Supervisor David Campos authored an ordinance reducing efforts to refer juvenile suspects to immigration ...
U.S. District Judge Valerie Baker Fairbank has won plaudits on the bench for her extraordinary preparation and attention to de...
Saying the U.S. will not become a "safe haven" for people who earn their money illegally, a federal judge sentenced former Ukr...
MGA Entertainment Inc. must comply with a court order to strip its famous Bratz dolls off store shelves in January, a federal ...
In his speech, Attorney General Eric Holder emphasizes the need to improve the quality of representation to the poor and power...
Howard Fulfrost of Fagen Friedman & Fulfrost, a former Brooklyn public high school teacher, writes about why he became an ...
In another erosion of the state's budget cuts, a U.S. judge on Wednesday reversed a 10 percent, $16 million cut in Medi-Cal re...
A woman who claims a game company on Facebook used her personal information to charge for unwanted services filed a class acti...
Dan Knise and Eileen Garczynski of Ames & Gough explain why, in good or bad economic times, some law firms get paid more q...
Mark Blackman of Alpert, Barr & Grant says a recent appellate decision has finally addressed the issue of inconsistent lie...
In the midst of fending off a closely watched lawsuit involving environmental contamination in Ecuador, Chevron has sued the a...
A federal appeals court has ordered the public defender's office in Los Angeles County to make a cash payment to a gay lawyer ...
Chief U.S. District Judge Audrey B. Collins and U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford spoke with Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Pasadena...
An epiphany on the battlefield in Iraq led William C. Gentry Jr. to move from a prosecutor's chair to the bench.
Donald E. Smallwood 1928—2009 ...
Brandon Saxon of Gordon & Rees says preparing an environmental impact statement is more than an exercise in compliance. ...
Mark Behrens and Phil Goldberg of Shook Hardy & Bacon believe that California is setting the stage for a surge of abusive ...
In a rare look at the 1978 California Solar Rights Act, a Los Angeles jury has ruled a homeowners association was right to ord...
A witness told a jury Tuesday that he lost tens of thousands of dollars on Broadcom stock in the naive belief the company's st...
A San Francisco proposal to establish a single department for asbestos case management looks likely to get the green light aft...
Dewey & LeBoeuf attorneys guided Santa Clara chipmaker Applied Materials purchase of Montana-based equipment manufacturer ...