Rep. Dan Lungren is a model Republican. But his experience as a lawyer has informed some of his forays off the standard GOP pa...

Attorney Caleb P. Leys says if more predatory lending lawsuits were filed, lenders would think twice before extending inapprop...

Neutral Richard M. Silver said he changes his style according to the nature of the dispute. ...

Kurt A. Schlichter of Schlichter & Shonack believes that the Code of Civil Procedure is far from perfect and proposes seve...

Judge David Lampe, founding director of the Alliance of California Judges says allotting all reserved capital for facility pro...

The American Board of Trial Advocates has brought in JAMS, San Francisco County's presiding judge and several law firms to tea...

A declaration filed in lawsuit against McAfee lays out former general counsel Kent Roberts' version of the company's stock opt...

In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration wants the 9th Circuit to reconsider a key evidentiary ruling in the basebal...

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

California death row inmate Kevin Cooper's lengthy effort to establish his innocence in the brutal massacre of a family in Chi...

The Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services Turkey Drive got a helping hand from McDonough Holland & Allen. Attorneys h...

An executive order issued by President Obama to crack down on fraud, waste and abuse in federal programs may raise a jurisdict...

The government rested its criminal prosecution of Broadcom's former chief financial officer William J. Ruehle for stock option...

Mary Ann O'Malley, presiding judge and chair of the Judicial Council's Trial Court Presiding Judges Advisory Committee says fu...

William Shernoff and Howard Shernoff of Shernoff Bidart Darras Echeverria write about the systematic rescission of health insu...

Court of Appeal associate justice Richard Mosk, a member of the Warren Commission, writes about the anniversary of JFK's assas...

Stephen Sonnenberg and Maria Audero of Paul Hastings say as of November 21, employers must protect employee genetic informatio...

A jury awarded $65 million to a man who accused his brother of wrongly cutting him out of his fair share of a real estate vent...

A Los Angeles jury on Monday awarded a defense verdict in favor of the automaker in a wrongful death asbestos case that sought...

In a case that could result in higher jury awards and more settlements, a Court of Appeal ruled defendants should not benefit ...

The 6th District Court of Appeal said two international microchip companies should not be punished for taking their lawyer's b...

Gay marriage supporters trying to reverse Proposition 8's ban on same-sex nuptials contend the federal appeals court has no bu...

The prison guard union and a watchdog group say last month's $54.4 million contract to a private prison operator is an example...

The money collected from Superior Court judges' furlough and closure day salaries was expected to be available to fund trial c...

The California Air Resources Board on Tuesday revealed its most comprehensive plans yet for fighting climate change at the sta...

Staff writer Jill Redhage tries to make sense of the no-grade grading system that has become en vogue at many of the nation's ...

Staff writer Sara Randazzo visits San Francisco Law School on the occasion of its 100th birthday and finds a small but grounde...

Staff writer Jean-Luc Renault puts the spotlight on Pepperdine Law School's Nootbaar Fellowship program. ...

Staff writer Sara Randazzo delves into the dispute over traditional libraries vs. online databases. ...

Whittier Law School grad Melissa Tyner explains how childhood essay contest can shape a legal career. ...