An appeals court ruled Friday that state prison officials failed in their duty to protect a transgender inmate from being sexu...

Judge Barry Russell's Evidence Manual is on every bankruptcy lawyer's desk. ...

Former State Bar President James O. Heiting, left, with Alfredo Tafoya, who has thrived under Heiting’s mentoring through the ...

Appearances are deceiving when it comes to Proposition 64 — a seemingly straightforward ballot initiative whose colorful histo...

Two litigators have teamed up to open boutique Spillane Weingarten in Los Angeles, targeting mid-market business clients.

Judge Leo Valentine Jr.'s dignified manner and deep, melodious voice lend an air of authority to the bench. ...

L.A. County's Department of Mental Health has quietly begun refusing to take emergency calls involving the mentally ill when n...

Former Judge Michael Ballachey doesn't mince words, and he doesn't dawdle.

Since Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, both the House and the Senate have pressured Occupational Safety and Health ...

With two years until he's termed out of office, state Assemblyman Dave Jones has his eye on a new prize: state insurance commi...

The layoffs come as two other San Francisco-origin firms are dissolving. Orrick's layoffs are in the corporate, real estate an...

Former colleagues and clerks of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Warren J. Ferguson remembered him Wednesday as ...

The other shoe dropped last week when a state appellate panel published an opinion that nixed a mediated class action settleme...

A team of attorneys from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman advised Hong Kong-based Asia Alternatives in securing $950 million of...

A former Townsend and Towsend and Crew patent litigator will rejoin the firm as a partner.

The Federal Circuit's recent 'Bilski' decision engages the issue of invention and transformation, writes Michael M. Rosen. - F...

In what appears to be a first-of-its kind lawsuit, San Mateo County sued Lehman Brothers officials and its auditor Thursday to...

Kamala Harris, right, smiles at Coni Binaley, left, campaign services coordinator, as she files papers Wednesday to run for Ca...

Two large teams of Thelen attorneys are off to their new firms, with Howrey scoring 40 attorneys from Thelen's prominent const...

Why do we assume that lawyers dislike law so much that if any one of the majority of us could just get a score big enough, we ...

A blogger who rides the Metrolink train to work and moderates an online forum to vent criticism of the rail service may face j...

We should encourage President Obama to send the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to the Senate f...

San Francisco commercial landlords are suffering the effects of the financial crisis. With banks going belly up, financing's b...

In an 11th hour decision, jailed ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano pulled the plug on his Wednesday sentencing hearing...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to conclude that a town in Utah violated the First Amendment rights of a re...

A recent state Supreme Court case could have significant ramifications for determining when environmental review is necessary ...

A split Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of the U.S. Navy in a dispute over the environmental damage caused by the use o...

WilmerHale has landed a former Heller Ehrman attorney as counsel in its securities department.

Three electronics companies agreed to pay $585 million in criminal fines as part of a guilty plea for conspiring to fix prices...

"We're trying to be creative," Los Angeles legal recruiter Delia Swan, left, said of the slowed market for lawyers. She is pic...