June saw a slew of deals that exemplified the diversity of industry in California. From renewable energy to wine, a host of Ca...

Farella Braun + Martel has named partner Lara Gilman chair of the firm's family wealth practice.

The Department of Homeland Security, headed by Secretary Michael Chertoff, “failed to make promptly available the records” des...

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely stayed out of the headlines during the U.S. Supreme Court's ...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury has awarded $1.7 million to a woman who sued her medical malpractice lawyers for lega...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Friday to decide whether a federal appeals court went too far in ruling that a California murder...

Afghanistan's attorney general will be here today to talk with area lawyers about establishing the rule of law in his homeland...

In appropriate cases, parties should weigh the cost of the full range of private dispute-resolution mechanisms against the los...

A class action that could fundamentally change the cable industry passed its first major hurdle last week when a federal judge...

The personal assistant to the leader of a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect agreed Friday to plead guilty to taking part in a multim...

Most attorneys long to get a glimpse of how it feels to be on the other side of the jury box, a fly on the wall during deliber...

Industry Watch - L. Julius Turman, a labor and employment attorney at Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in San Francisco, served as ...

An Orange County lawyer accused of taking part in the most expensive medical fraud in the nation's history was arraigned on Fr...

Having a working knowledge of criminal grand jury proceedings is essential to effective practice and administration of justice...

After the parties in the litigation over California's crowded prisons failed to reach a proposed settlement Friday, the three-...

When a health insurer refused to pay for the only treatment doctors said could save his life, Superior Court Judge David Mintz...

A La Mesa attorney's attempt to resign quietly in the midst of a scandal has officials at the State Bar saying, "Not so fast."...

Following the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling striking down Washington, D.C.'s handgun ban, gun rights advocates, as expe...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Superior Court Judge Coleman A. Swart has announced his retirement after 25 years on the bench.

In a move in line with its plans for expansion in Silicon Valley, Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal announced the addition of ...

Jacqueline Honovich Lewis' first week as a Superior Court commissioner went much like her last week as a referee.

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

Commissioner Cheryl L. Leininger learned hard work on the Iowa farm where she grew up. In her case-heavy Orange County court, ...

A lifelong fisherman, Judge Patrick T. Madden says the ocean relaxes him. Lawyers say he has a similarly soothing, steady pres...

The plaintiff in the gun case, Dick Heller, left, along with one of his attorneys, Clark Niely, leave the U.S. Supreme Court a...

Corporate Counsel Q&A ...

The state judicial watchdog commission on Thursday ordered Orange County Superior Court Judge Kelley A. MacEachern removed fro...

Scott J. Dickinson refers to mediation as "my gift, my calling, my mandate." ...

If the purpose of law school is to prepare students to become lawyers, shouldn't law schools also prepare them to pass the tes...