Corporate directors normally have unfettered access to company information — except when they are also litigants against the c...

Holland & Knight has taken in a former Thelen partner in the firm's San Francisco litigation group.

Now that he's on the bench, capital case specialist Mark Windham says his compassion has shifted from a single client to th...

An oil company that beat back an Alien Tort Act Claim tops our list of the top defense verdicts of 2008. ...

MacPherson, Kwok, Chen & Heid, an intellectual property boutique with offices in San Jose and Irvine, has agreed to merge ...

The Mental Evaluation Unit, a joint project of the Los Angeles Police Department and the county Department of Mental Health, w...

Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery announced Tuesday it will be eliminating 60 attorneys and 89 staff positions nationwi...

New York-based Dewey & LeBoeuf is easing its way out of San Francisco. The firm said Tuesday it has asked its 17 San Franc...

The revolving door of potential attorneys for Joe Francis continued Tuesday, as Crowell & Moring's Janet I. Levine appeare...

The Supreme Court's misguided decision on the exclusionary rule means that thousands of people may have their freedom of movem...

Contra Costa County Public Defender David C. Coleman is arguing that prosecutors shouldn't be able to use jailhouse recordings...

A former deputy district attorney, who says he was demoted for calling Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas a "croo...

Counsel representing plaintiffs in contract disputes should not perfunctorily pray for attorney fees without first analyzing w...

The three federal judges overseeing litigation involving California's overcrowded prisons cannot mandate a reduction in the in...

Dorsey & Whitney has picked a new partner for its Palo Alto office.

The justices of the California Supreme Court grappled Tuesday with how far government can go in educating voters about ballot ...

Daralyn Durie and Mark Lemley have split from Keker & Van Nest to start an IP litigation boutique in San Francisco. ...

"Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis landed in federal custody Monday after missing a court hearing regarding his attorneys' ...

A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday reversed his earlier decision and allowed a securities fraud class action to proceed ...

Was a lawyer fighting foreclosures or running a scam? Columnist Martin Berg finds out what U.S. District Judge Manuel Real thi...

Eric H. Holder Jr. is the nation's first African-American attorney General, putting him in charge of a massive agency that is ...

Steptoe & Johnson became the latest firm to benefit from the dissolution of the now-defunct Dreier Stein Kahan on Monday, ...

By taking "get tough" and "zero tolerance" policies too far, administrators are transforming schools into police departments, ...

Irvine-based Payne & Fears has bolstered its Los Angeles office with the hire of Phyllis Kupferstein, a trial attorney and...

Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell, home to 700 attorneys, opened a small San Francisco outpost Monday. ...

Hundreds of state prison inmates have a shot at a shorter sentence thanks to a California Supreme Court opinion published Mond...

Legislative action can throw a monkey wrench into a pending civil action, write Margaret Grignon and Margie Estrada. - Focus C...

Venable has nabbed a partner from Parker, Milliken, Clark, O'Hara, Samuelian to chair its labor and employment group in Los An...

Philippe Grevin is general counsel of Orange County-based Veterinary Pet Insurance Co., the oldest and largest pet insurance c...

Loretta M. Giorgi encourages mutual respect in her San Francisco courtroom. Lawyers appearing before her say they're happy to...