A showdown is brewing between an appellate justice and a defense lawyer who both serve on a statewide committee that oversees ...

A bankruptcy judge approved a plan late Sunday that will allow General Motors Corp. to drop its liability on vehicle-related i...

If ASCAP is correct that a public performance occurs whenever a ringtone is downloaded, it stands to collect tens of millions ...

The California Supreme Court held Thursday that juvenile felony priors can count as strikes, overturning a lower court to the ...

The perception that the U.S. Supreme Court is split into two factions, with Justice Anthony M Kennedy straddling the divide, o...

Melanie M. Poturica and Lauren C. Liebes explain whether a casual dating relationship or friendship create enough of an associ...

For public officials who receive free event tickets and for people who provide them, the world has become more complex, writes...

Skadden Arps helped close a deal involving the purchase of a company that provides natural gas and oil pipeline servicing.

Those eager to comment on the legality of settlements in the West Bank should check out what American law has to say on the su...

In a trend that is heating up due to turbulent market conditions, San-Francisco-based Cell Genesys announced a $38 million mer...

Job losses in the legal profession hit a record in June, climbing more than fivefold from May.

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

The most successful lawyers are the ones who excel at the most important skill of all: client development, Patrick D. Kelly wr...

Judge Vaughn Walker's order in the Prop. 8 case carries shades of the legal reasoning of the civil-rights era, some analysts say.

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals was sternly reprimanded for keeping a publicly accessible w...

Keith Wetmore, the unflappable chair of Morrison & Foerster, says he believes the structure of his law firm after the econ...

A federal judge has refused to block a California rule that took effect Wednesday designed to reduce pollution from huge conta...

U.S. employers should be aware of the employment nuances when seeking releases in connection with layoffs, write Jenni Field, ...

The Clean Water Act was rooted in the concept of navigability - deleting that linkage may have far-reaching consequences, writ...

The number of U.S. law firms joining forces dipped in the second quarter after climbing in the first three months of the year.

Former Superior Court Judge Victoria G. Chaney and U.S. Magistrate Judge Jeffrey W. Johnson will hear cases on the 2nd Distric...

We need to make tough decisions about how to preserve the health of our fellow Californians, and the integrity of our legislat...

The Supreme Court's last environmental case of the term proved that Justice Anthony Kennedy is often the tiebreaker on green i...

A divided state appellate court ruled Wednesday that law enforcement officers can be sued for violating the rights of medical ...

Howrey has acquired intellectual property boutique Day Casebeer Madrid & Batchelder, which over its 11-year run built up a...

San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe, home to 1,100 attorneys worldwide, is fundamentally reshuffling its st...

Questions are being raised about 'Brady' violations after several high-profile federal criminal prosecutions crumbled over dis...

Statewide court furloughs planned for this month must be postponed because of the buget impasse, court officials said Tuesday....

Censoring technology will not insulate the regimes in Iran and China from demands for change, writes Peter Scheer.

Opponents of capital punishment proposed a five-year moratorium on executions Tuesday, claiming it would save the state nearly...