Dozens of associates in dissolving Heller Ehrman's offices across the nation were laid off Friday. Many are still trying to fi...

The world's largest pharmaceutical company announced Friday it would pay $894 million to settle litigation involving two of it...

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

Oxnard-based Arnold, Bleuel, LaRochelle, Matthews & Zirbel has hired the Ventura County Bar Association president to serve...

Federal Judge Dana Makoto Sabraw says he draws lessons from the samurai ...

Judicial advocates and county officials say an appellate court ruling that struck down $46,000 a year in extra benefits for lo...

"I make sure that the relationship partner knows who the 'grind out' attorneys are and I want them on my matters," said Simon ...

Six Heller Ehrman partners have landed at Sidley Austin in the wake of their firm’s decision to dissolve last month, along wit...

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has taken new action in response to a sharp increase in claims of discrimination a...

A federal judge has rejected a move to bar from the upcoming corruption trial of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona evid...

A San Francisco-based judge has set a Monday hearing in Los Angeles to decide a question that may be moot — whether to recuse ...

Charles G. Rubin Began Planning His Law Career at Age 12 ...

A recent California Court of Appeal decision has implications for government agencies, landowners and developers throughout th...

These various crime-reducing strategies that would become law if Proposition 9 passes have all been tried previously in Califo...

Environmentalists' efforts to trump the considered judgment of the Navy’s anti-submarine warfare experts in order to protect w...

The phrase "horse trading" has come to mean shady dealing and shrewd bargaining, tactics associated with frontier merchants wi...

Foster parents say the periodic and incremental increases in payments from the state are not enough to support a child. ...

Web Exclusive - A Riverside County jury Thursday convicted a Palm Springs transient of second-degree murder in the strangling ...

In the first week that federal immigration officials detained Hector Fuentes, the Honduran national said he went without his a...

Shearman & Sterling is expanding its Bay Area mergers and acquisitions group and corporate practice with the addition of t...

Cory Weck, a civil plaintiffs’ lawyer who has a 4-year-old case that is set for trial in Riverside next month, said he’s witne...

Rated as an 'A+ trial attorney,' David M. Rubin is earning high marks for his work as a San Diego trial judge. ...

Just as democracy requires transparency so that voters can hold elected officials accountable, so the financial system require...

A San Clemente-based company, Calcar Inc., produces automobile operating manuals. A Palo Alto-based nonprofit organization, wh...

A Q & A with Steptoe & Johnson bankruptcy attorney Robin Itkin, who has been a leader in establishing the firm's subpr...

The mass exodus from Heller Ehrman following its decision to dissolve last month allowed 2,300-attorney law firm Jones Day to ...

At issue is whether the instruction the state court judge gave to the jury during the trial of Michael Pulido was a harmless e...

Ingrid A. Uhler says that being a judge is a lot like being a parent - juggling tasks at home helped prepare her to be flexi...

Alana Knaster, who served as president of the Mediation Institute, stands at Pebble Beach in Monterey County, where she is now...

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could face another legal challenge to their efforts to dramatically cut diesel truck p...