Essential to any effective corporate governance strategy is timely, unfiltered disclosure and effective resolution of unethica...

The state Supreme Court has denied review of an appellate decision that had become a cause celebre for mediators concerned abo...

A judge Wednesday granted class status to a group of gays, lesbians and bisexuals alleging discrimination against matchmaking ...

Patience is the key to settling cases, Charles G. Bakaly Jr. has found. ...

The State Bar is taking a second look at two controversial measures to toughen the attorney discipline system, thanks to the s...

Employers must take quick, decisive action to protect trade secrets when an employee leaves to work with a competitor, writes ...

A division of Shell Oil Co. saw its hopes to "drill, baby, drill" dampened on Thursday after an appeals court nixed its govern...

In this current business and economic climate, employers should consider junking the “at-will” rule in favor of employment con...

Saturday marks the 45th anniversary of John F. Kennedy's assassination. Justice Stuart R. Pollak of the 1st District Court of ...

The prosecution's star witness in the MySpace cyber-bullying case testified that Missouri businesswoman Lori Drew was aware of...

A police officer has won a $3.6 million jury award after he claimed that he lost salary and rank and was kicked out of an elit...

The California Supreme Court narrowly averted disaster this week in an important antitrust case that was plagued by conflicts ...

Public-interest attorneys won a crucial victory Thursday, when the California Supreme Court unanimously rejected an attempt to...

Lathrop & Gage has merged with Los Angeles boutique Spillane Shaeffer Aronoff Bandlow, marking the Kansas City-based firm'...

In July, Joe Hunt, a former member of the "Billionaire Boys Club," retained Gary K. Dubcoff, pictured, to appeal his murder co...

President-elect Barack Obama will be the first-ever president to be sworn in by a chief justice whose confirmation he voted ag...

Under Obama, lawmakers should simplify public insurance enrollment procedures and cut down on administrative steps that might ...

Behind closed doors Wednesday, the City Council would not approve a $10 million settlement proposed by the city attorney to en...

Firm heartbroken over co-founder’s death. ...

Justice known for ruling in abuse case. ...

Reed Smith snatched a highly coveted, nine-attorney labor and employment group from the dissolving Thelen, including prominent...

Lori Drew “hatched a plot to prey upon the vulnerable psyche of a 13-year-old” by creating and using a fake MySpace account to...

The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review the validity of a voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, but refused...

A former Thelen partner has landed at the Walnut Creek office of Miller Starr Regalia.

President-elect Barack Obama will likely replace nearly all of the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys. Who will get California's four ...

A state lawyer's objections to the use of the word "cage" to describe a photograph of what appeared to be a cage where mentall...

Chicago-based Winston & Strawn has lapped up 19 lawyers from Thelen in the midst of that firm’s dissolution. Sixteen, incl...

The government has made many attempts to expand the landmark 'Hudson’s’ ruling to constitutional violations other than those i...

Charles Hamilton Houston followed a path remarkably similar to Barack Obama's a half-century earlier, writes Marcy Strauss. - ...

Because of the Supreme Court's infamous 'Kelo' decision, entire neighborhood has been destroyed and taken off the tax rolls, a...