Far from molesting young boys sent to him for psychotherapy as his accusers claim, William Hamilton Ayres insisted from the wi...

An important but unanswered question is whether trading in the state's IOUs is subject to federal and state securities laws, w...

Despite a cloudy economy, attorney Edwin Feo of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy helped SunPower Corp., a San Jose-based so...

Payments to state lobbying firms are down $2.1 million during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter last yea...

For U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, 60 is the magic number. That's how many Democratic votes there are in the U.S....

A recent case provides employers and defense counsel with an alternative means to end class actions via individual settlement,...

After stints assisting sole practitioners and making partner at a small firm, Stuart Liner decided to open his own shop. Over ...

First it was real estate, then Wall Street. Now, has the movie star bubble burst? Talent deals are undergoing a marked restruc...

The Assembly Judiciary Committee passed legislation on Thursday that would extend the usual benefits of marriage to same-sex c...

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...