The 9th Circuit rejected an argument by the owners of the Play Pen, an East Los Angeles strip club, and sided with the makers ...

McDermott Will & Emery has snatched up the former Menlo Park office space of dissolving Heller Ehrman, relieving the San F...

The new law banning texting while driving should give all of us plenty of time to experience what life used to be like before ...

Civil rights attorney William K. Coblentz has over the past 50-some years supported efforts of the NAACP, American Civil Liber...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that could dramatically affect the right of defendants to cross-exa...

Makers of brand-name pharmaceuticals can be sued for failing to warn of a drug's dangers, even when it was the generic version...

Santa Clara crime lab problems led to system improvements.

Dallas-based plaintiffs' firm Waters & Kraus is settling offices in San Francisco.

Attorneys waging a four-year-long fight over legal rights to the popular Bratz dolls are set to square off before a judge Mond...

“My arrival at HP was more blind, dumb luck than anything. HP was a looking for a securities lawyer and I was tired of life in...

Magistrate Judge Gregory G. Hollows may be conservative, but you'd never know it in court. ...

When the Schwarzenegger administration struck a deal with Anthem Blue Cross that required the insurer to resell medical covera...

The litigation involved sophisticated data networks, inter-related contracts covering a reseller arrangement and a deal regist...

The 2008 elections created an entirely new landscape that is substantially more favorable to supporters of the Employee Free C...

An Orange County judge with a history of misconduct was again publicly admonished Thursday, weeks after the judge said he woul...

The recording industry has lost its ability to profitably find, promote, market and deliver the music the public wants, writes...

No arm-twister, retired Judge Peter Stone coaxes parties into settlements. ...

At oral argument Thursday in a closely watched case concerning attorney fee disputes, several state Supreme Court justices see...

Nixon Peabody considered a full-blown merger with Thelen earlier this year. Now it has settled for a large group of attorneys ...

History suggests that the battleground of many wrongful termination lawsuits will be whether or not an “at-will” employment re...

A once progressive reform, California's ballot initiative system now undermines party responsibility and the traditional forms...

Federal prosecutors have written to all 50 judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, asking them to consider recusing t...

With news that President-elect Barack Obama has assembled his transition team, speculation has turned to how his administratio...

What's going through attorneys' brains during mediation? ...

Though much attention in recent months has focused on the fate of Wall Street firms, California’s public companies are in fact...

A Santa Ana attorney has been elected president of the California Creditors Bar Association.

Robin Tyler, center, and her spouse, Diane Olson, left, hold hands as they listen to attorney Gloria Allred announce a new law...

In an unusual twist to an already unusual case, federal prosecutors Wednesday insisted on their right to try the MySpace cyber...

Supervising prosecutors may soon rest easy after several members of the U.S. Supreme Court expressed doubt Wednesday as to whe...

A Los Angeles couple is living “every parent’s nightmare,” a 9th Circuit Court of Appeal panel wrote Wednesday in a ruling tha...