Bar Court Judge Richard A. Honn will help attorneys who exercise poor judgment, lawyers say, but he'll deal strongly with t...

In Judge Richard E. Rico's civil harassment court, getting an order against a jilted lover or a disgruntled employee requires...

Michael Ney, a civil defense lawyer in Walnut Creek, will be sworn in today as president of the San Francisco chapter of the A...

When former homicide prosecutor Mark S. Boessenecker took the bench, he got the family law docket. It's all new to him, but h...

Bank of the West General Counsel Vanessa Washington is helping to steer the company through a tumultuous time in the industry....

To provide a less expensive quality check on issued patents, Congress created the ex parte re-examination, a useful post-grant...

Seventy-five years ago, America ended its disastrous experiment with alcohol prohibition. Today, the country is still saddled ...

Richard S. Reisberg likens smart fishing to successful mediation. ...

A Superior Court judge has approved the largest-ever railroad liability verdict to a single plaintiff - a $48 million judgment...

Officials with the Department of Mental Health pledged Thursday to stop relying on police for emergency calls involving the me...

As part of a deal with 40 state attorneys general last month to cut down on listings for prostitution and sex-oriented service...

Seventy-five years ago, the states fully ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending prohibition -...

New revisions significantly change the management of the Family and Medical Leave Act leave and provide rules for administerin...

For those who hope to rein in our uniquely high rates of litigation, a “loser-pays rule” seems like a common-sense way to weed...

But conservatives on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday blasted an earlier pro-gay ruling in the "don't ask, do...

The federal judge who stripped the famous Bratz dolls from MGA Entertainment at Mattel's behest also scolded the parties, sayi...

The idea of reducing California's inmate population by 50,000 inmates within two years is controversial for many people, inclu...

Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold has taken in three former Thelen attorneys in its San Francisco office.

A roundup of recent deal activity handled by California lawyers.

The lawyers who represented "Girls Gone Wild" founder Joe Francis in his federal tax evasion case have apparently been shown t...

A Superior Court judge was right to overturn a dangerous agreement between the state Department of Education and the American ...

After seven years of disastrous detention policies, a recent ruling ordering the release of several Guantanamo prisoners might...

The family of a California woman who went into respiratory arrest and died after neck surgery has filed a lawsuit blaming a po...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared no closer to resolving a long-running dispute over a $79.5 million punitive damages award agai...

Retired Superior Court Judge William Huss, often described as an "old-fashioned" law-and-order bench officer who required atto...

The slew of nationwide law firm layoffs continued Tuesday, when 1,700-attorney Reed Smith let go of 115 support staff, constit...

State officials who regulate the HMO industry do have the power to ban doctors from billing patients directly even when insure...

A federal magistrate judge in San Francisco has scaled back a nationwide injunction that blocks a Bush administration rule loo...

New Federal Rule of Evidence 502 addresses inadvertent waivers of the attorney-client privilege, and codifies an area of pract...

Axiom, the professional services firm targeting the high-end legal market, has opened a Los Angeles office.