Christine D. Spagnoli built a career suing automakers over deadly defects. Now, as president of the Consumer Attorneys of Cali...

Readers weigh in on the legality of Israeli settlements and criticism of a San Mateo County judge.

An Islamic organization Thursday asked a federal judge to find that the warrantless wiretapping program started by the prior a...

This year's crowded State Bar Board of Governors race drew to a close Thursday, with three former county bar presidents, a lon...

Congress is proposing a statute that appears to both encourage current tax patent activity and then to shut off tax patents in...

Citing a lack of evidence, a U.S. District judge in Riverside ruled Wednesday that Warner Bros. did not pay sibling company DC...

Philip A. Harley, a partner at Oakland's Kazan, McClain, Lyons, Greenwood & Harley who litigated on behalf of cancer patie...

Our process should be set up so that jurors leave jury duty with an increased understanding of the judicial system, writes H. ...

'Ricci' is a reminder that even well-intentioned employment decisions are unlawful if they are principally based on protected ...

Defendants charged with driving under the influence can attack the scientific reliability of Breathalyzer test results in cert...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Harvey A. Silberman and two consultants who worked on his 2008 judicial campaign have ...

San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe informed law school deans this week via a memo and phone calls that it ...

Michael Paul Thomas explains the jurisdictional issues involved when parties file actions relating to the same subject in diff...

The U.S. Department of Treasury and the Department of Energy announced Thursday the details of a plan to funnel an estimated $...

Bar association officials, including Marc Staenberg of the Beverly Hills Bar Association, say they're struggling to keep membe...

With the prolonged recession choking off state and private-sector dollars for nonprofit legal organizations, those groups are ...

In her book "A Comparison Shopping Guide for 363 Sales," Kelly Frazier provides an overview of a debtor's restructuring option...

The influence of California law is evident in recent federal actions on climate change, including the development of the Ameri...

Susan Cagann, special counsel at San Francisco's Farella Braun + Martel, spent much of her 21-year legal career navigating the...

Candidates for U.S. Attorney in the Northern District of California begin their interviews with Sen. Barbara Boxer's selection...

Three Cooley Godward Kronish partners left their old firm reeling Tuesday when they gave their 30-day notice and the news: The...

In a kind of legal hokey-pokey, Department of Homeland Security officials on Wednesday announced they would abandon a controve...

After eight years of being ignored by the Bush administration, the American Bar Association is working to bolster its influenc...

Dole Food Co. filed a defamation suit Wednesday against the filmmaker of a documentary that it alleges maligned Dole by portra...

Cities that have depended on cash generated by auto malls are facing a dramatic decline in sales tax revenues, writes Gideon K...

Media companies have turned to copyright law as their last line of defense against online aggregation services, write Rami S. ...

At what point do advertisers cross the line in making claims their products are "green" or "eco-friendly," asks Brian S. Goldb...

Patricia Glaser, left, has had two stints representing longtime client MGA Entertainment Inc. in its nasty dispute with Mattel...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith lost a $6 million verdict Tuesday after a jury decided the firm overbilled and improperly ...

Regina Petty, who spent the past 17 years helping to build a prominent women-owned firm in San Diego, has left for a larger ar...