The renewable energy industry is about to be boosted by another kind of green - stimulus bill funds.

Making a movie is like preparing for a trial, says San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi. He should know. Twice now, he's ...

Marin County Superior Court Judge Paul M. Haakenson traded a white coat for legal books and never looked back. ...

Morrison & Foerster partner Tony West emphasized his experience as a federal prosecutor and Justice Department lawyer Tues...

Some otherwise savvy attorneys treat their court-sponsored mediations very differently than the private ones for which they pa...

The content of the compelled speech the Fairness Doctrine requires may not be free from intellectual property and other tort l...

Michael Concha, an acting assistant Los Angeles County public defender who dedicated his 36-year legal career to L.A.'s crimin...

The novelist who sold the rights to his adventure book that became the movie Sahara now owes more to the production company th...

When Arlen Specter, the ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked six experts Tuesday about how the governme...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker laid off 44 associates and 87 staff in its U.S. offices Tuesday, including some in its o...

Insurers should not be allowed to ignore the realities of the industry - including how words are used within that industry. ...

Richard D. Ackerman has given longtime colleagues and friends whiplashes with his seemingly abrupt left-view support of the st...

In one of the largest settlements of its kind, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has agreed to pay creditors of a bankrupt elect...

When Ventura County Judge Frederick H. Bysshe Jr. imposed a permanent gang injunction in the community, he made sure it ha...

If octogenarian lawyers are not supposed to play solo, outraged crusading litigators, no one has bothered to tell Lynn S. Carm...

When longtime civil law attorney David Cena took the bench 14 years ago, he was assigned to a criminal court, an area he scram...

Francis T. Fahy is learning a hard lesson about the importance of jury duty. The San Francisco attorney finds himself dangerou...

Companies that offer opportunities for others to start a business, work at home or earn an easy income should be alert to the ...

What's a legal aid group doing in the software business? Plenty, columnist Martin Berg discovers. ...

In a loss for civil rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision Monday that there are limits to a provisi...

Companies must mind the shop and ensure that their online marketing efforts and their data practices are maintained legally. ...

When it comes to dealing with sexually violent predators, the district attorney's office must follow the law as it is, not as ...

The entertainment industry might end shutting down The Pirate Bay Web site, but in doing so it will help romanticize anti-esta...

Bay Area lawyers Roderick and Gregory Walston might be the first father-son pair to win reversals before the 1st District Cour...

The California Supreme Court on Monday sided with state officials in a decades-long battle with insurance companies over who s...

On the heels of last week's stabbing of a judge in a Stockton courtroom by a murder defendant, judges and court officials acro...

If policy changes are what caused our prisons to become overburdened and dangerous, policy changes are what can fix them. ...

Andrew Giacomini has brought a playful touch to Hanson Bridgett since becoming the 51-year-old firm’s managing partner in 2001...

The Kindle 2 is as close to a perfect e-reader as anyone has gotten yet. ...

In the current economy, the best strategy is less about building an image or branding a firm and more about creating relations...