The San Francisco Bay Area was a bright spot among the world's major legal markets during the first quarter of the year, while...

Well-known sexual harassment attorney Philip Kay launched a vigorous defense of himself and colleague John Dalton from miscond...

A Los Angeles district judge wrongly dismissed a class action against Farmers Group Inc. alleging the insurance giant charged ...

Similarities between the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war in Vietnam are remarkable and sobering, write Marjorie Cohn ...

One day after a jury returned a $300 million damages award against him, the defendant in a high-stakes corporate merger fraud ...

The Daily Journal takes a look at the state’s leading women litigators and how they got there. Also in this issue: Could the e...

Victor Jih and Tammy Jih, both California lawyers, won CBS's "The Amazing Race" and the $1 million prize that comes with it. T...

A federal judge has ruled government agents committed no wrongdoing in a decade-old civil rights claim brought by a man who sa...

Despite court rules mandating opennes, actress Sharon Stone was allowed to file a suit in Los Angeles Superior Court under con...

Banks and government officials continue to do the public's business in secret, columnist Martin Berg finds. ...

Ample time for preparation is the most important component to a successful deposition of your foreign client, write Caroline M...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judge warned Monday that California may be on the verge of executing an innocent man, even...

The Justice Department withdrew a controversial report Monday from the waning days of the Bush administration, signaling a maj...

The California Supreme Court dealt a blow to injured workers and their attorneys Monday by limiting their ability to be reimbu...

Advance negotiation of the definition of force majeure is far preferable to sorting out liability issues in the context of leg...

Substituting first-years' discursive essay exam with multiple-choice or true-false questions may work to a student's (and prof...

Firearms manufacturers won a showdown Monday over a 2005 federal law shielding them from litigation, as a divided federal appe...

After a 4 ½ month trial, a state civil jury awarded $300 million in damages Monday to a Los Angeles venture capitalist who acc...

The Pirate Bay convictions helps reinforce the content industry's message that piracy is wrong, illegal and can come with real...

Judge Michele McKay McCoy tried being a librarian and a teacher but kept returning to her first love: the law. ...

A San Francisco federal jury returned a guilty verdict in the capital murder trial of 24-year-old Dennis Cyrus Jr. Monday afte...

David Shannon, a veteran of Silicon Valley tech companies, is embroiled is several high profile litigations. ...

San Ramon-based Chevron Corp. is quietly on the prowl for a new general counsel. It's not that the current head of its legal f...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is trying to make four aspiring medical students pay back $1.7 million in attorne...

The Justice Department has asked Congress to significantly boost funding for immigration enforcement along the Southwestern U....

The ability to address a potential pandemic in the workplace must be one of the many tools in an employer's arsenal, write Sus...

As welcome as the decision was, Steve Semeraro wonders if it really advances the cause of individual liberty and privacy inter...

Leadership is not something that you simply do. It is a skill that you have to learn, writes Kurt A. Schlichter. ...

With 3,700 positions cut, April marked the second-largest decline in legal services jobs since the recession began. Legal jobs...