More competent, experienced attorneys are likely to turn to contract work. ...

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act has caused endless confusion and angst for large and small businesses alike. ...

Basic, one-to-one interactions are at the heart of successful networking. ...

The State Bar’s Board of Governors resoundingly approved on Friday two much-discussed measures that would narrow options for a...

More legal workers across the nation lost their jobs during February than in any month since the recession began, according to...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Judge Marta S. Diaz works tirelessly to help delinquents and abused youth, but she takes no guff from juvenile offenders who d...

California's Supreme Court justices weighed in on the epic statewide legal battle over gay rights Thursday by indicating they ...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman announced layoffs Thursday: 55 lawyers, 10 paralegals and 90 staff. ...

A federal grand jury indicted the former chairman and chief executive of Westwood-based, home-building giant KB Home on Thursd...

Jessie Kohler was a young associate looking to drop 20 pounds before Winston & Strawn's annual summer boat party when she ...

The residency restrictions imposed by Jessica's law have no facts to back them - they might even be making things worse. ...

The losing lawyer says the decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit "is a direct incursion on the right t...

"Divorce! The Musical," playing at the Hudson Mainstage Theatre, is infinitely more entertaining than "Divorce: The Judicial A...

The peculiar rules governing insurance law sometimes make it hard to determine who or what is actually covered. ...

The House of Representatives passed a controversial bill Thursday that empowers bankruptcy judges to lower monthly payments on...

Employment law and family law can collide if divorced couples end up fighting over each others' employee benefits. ...

For seasoned stage actress Nanette Reed, a third-year associate at Murchison & Cumming, her first gig as trial lawyer was ...

There was more than a little déjà  vu at the start of Thursday's oral argument on the validity of Proposition 8, the constitut...

The famed former leader of fallen San Francisco law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison is back in the saddle. ...

District attorney Steve Cooley's actions concerning sexual predator cases were mischaracterized.

Once again, the tiny delta smelt and the estuary the species inhabits are at the center of a legal fight between federal regul...

The justices will hear oral argument Thursday in their most highly anticipated case of the year, a challenge to the November v...

Judge Oliver W. Wanger has issued key decisions on water and other environmental laws while overseeing the nation's busiest fe...

Trial lawyers can breathe a sigh of relief because the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that federal drug labeling laws don'...

In a week that has already seen massive cuts at two of California's biggest law firms, Los Angeles-based O'Melveny & Myers...

Warning signs mandated by Proposition 65 are there not to protect you but to prevent frivolous litigation against the business...

To solve the state's budget crisis, legislative leaders and the governor had to do what lawyers, judges and mediators do every...

If you are a consumer holding a gift card to a financially distressed retailer, now is the time to redeem those cards before t...

Writing for a six-member majority, the enbanc 9th U.S. Circuit panel found that drunken driving "offenses committed with the k...