The future of commercial arbitration, often the subject of debate, has taken on an even more fervent discussion during the pas...

A government agency stepped over the line when it used federal money to campaign against a California ballot proposition, a Di...

The military men and women who have served as defense counsel and prosecutors in the war on terror have provided shining examp...

Robert Hubbell, the former firmwide managing partner of Heller Ehrman who often served as the calm, public face of the firm th...

Web Exclusive - The State Bar said late Tuesday that one of its long-time employees is being investigated for possible embezzl...

After recall alerts about heparin began pouring in from across the country, pharmacists at the University of California San Fr...

If reporting were a better-paying career, Santa Maria Judge Tim Staffel might still be filing stories on deadline. ...

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart has hired an of counsel in its San Francisco office.

In the Daily Journal's 2008 Rainmaking supplement, top lawyers talk about how to adjust to slowed economy.

With two weeks until Election Day, an appellate attorney has stepped in to challenge Sacramento County Judge Peter J. McBrien ...

He was a passionate jack-of-all trades litigator who represented clients in this city for half a century. ...

A San Francisco-based judge on Monday denied as moot a motion to recuse every judge in the Central District of California from...

A wave of health care facility bankruptcies is providing opportunities for potential buyers to capture unrealized value and tu...

Insulating the federal judges from election has resulted in a bench that, over the years, has had an enviable reputation for p...

After each execution Pastor Carroll Pickett experienced during 15 years as a Texas death house chaplain, he made an audio-reco...

To redefine marriage into something it is not contradicts nature and ignores history, writes Frank J. Coughlin. ...

Jack Tenner, a retired Los Angeles County Superior Court judge and civil rights activist, has died. ...

Presiding Judge-elect Charles McCoy has tapped Elihu Berle to serve as the Central District's next civil courts supervisor whe...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review whether a California prosecutor should have been kicked off a high-profile mu...

Civil rights advocates presented a report Monday to police officials they said proved the long-held belief among many African ...

A federal judge has ruled that a Silicon Valley plaintiffs' firm is entitled to fees - as much as $800,000 - for representing ...

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr has brought on a former Securities and Exchange Commission branch chief as of counsel.

A class of more than 2,000 retired professional football players goes to trial Monday over licensing revenues. Their lawyer, R...

Linda Quinn likes to try out new ideas in her San Diego courtroom, whether it's allowing jurors to ask questions or organizing...

You can't send a substitute to do a real job. That oversimplified statement could be the Orange County Register's key defense...

By tapping the vast reservoir of private capital available in the U.S. and abroad, a considerable portion of the funds needed ...

Due to factors more intrinsic and unchangeable than policy differences, Obama's election would do more to heal our country's r...

While the 2006 Trademark Dilution Revision Act was expected to make things easier for the owners of famous marks, recent cases...

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...