The attorney for Brocade Communications Systems' special litigation committee informed a federal judge the company has identif...

Earn-outs should be viewed as a tool of last resort and should not be entered into lightly, writes Scott Joachim. - Forum Colu...

George Herzog and his partner Michael Nava, who is a staff attorney for state Supreme Court Justice Carlos Moreno, are plannin...

A Beverly Hills lawyer in an angry dispute with Chief Judge Alex Kozinski said he learned months ago that Kozinski's Web site ...

In what appeared to be an election-year stunt, Senate Democrats attacked the Supreme Court Wednesday for what they say is a se...

A Carroll, Burdick & McDonough lawyer has joined a Los Angeles-based public policy firm.

San Diego defense attorney Mary Frances Prevost was steamed after her client, Ernest J. Sala Jr.'s, DUI trial was stretched fr...

Los Angeles County Superior Court's Steven K. Lubell has earned a reputation as a compassionate, meticulous commissioner kno...

A federal judge presiding over a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs accepted into evidence on Tuesday a c...

Three people wanted the position, but in the end the California Judges Association picked a San Francisco civil court judge as...

Rory Little will make a recommendation about how to proceed against plaintiffs' lawyers Walter Lack and Thomas Girardi, who we...

The electorate's reaction against eminent domain is simply not strong enough to serve as the wedge to create wholesale changes...

Despite a murder defendant's protest that the prosecutor is racially biased, a Contra Costa County Superior Court judge Tuesda...

Even without federal or state mandates, more and more local governments are "warming" to the concept of sustainability, write ...

There needs to be more consistent policy governing how family law cases are assigned and tried, writes Fred Silberberg. - Foru...

With attorney Terry N. Christensen's trial looming, his legal team filed a fresh set of motions last week seeking a familiar s...

A jury hearing the Bratz copyright battle will get to learn of Mattel's contentions that a former company employee used a soft...

Stanford Law School will abolish letter grades for its students starting with the class of 2011. ...

Web Exclusive - A Brocade attorney informed a judge that the company has identified 11 individuals it plans to sue for backdat...

Web Exclusive - A bill that would add $10 to California Lawyers' dues to pay for a State Bar building on Tuesday cleared the S...

It took two years, a major partner exodus, the loss of all major clients and guilty pleas from four former name partners, but ...

A former pastor, Judge Martha E. Bellinger is a compassionate bench officer who will go to great lengths to help children fin...

The son of a judge, John L. Flynn III was drawn to the law early on. Now he presides in his own courtroom and earns praise fro...

State Bar officials have named Edward J. McIntyre, a partner with San Diego's Solomon Ward Seidenwurm & Smith to its Commi...

Michael Kwun, who was hired four years ago as Google Inc.'s first in-house litigator and had been the public face of its comba...

After a career as a civil lawyer, newly appointed Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge James A. Steele makes a smooth trans...

After a trial with several bizarre twists, a man who claimed Del Taco violated his disability rights has lost his suit seekin...

It is too soon to tell whether politicians, business people and lawyers will learn more from the current mortgage crisis than ...

Lawyers will go to court today to try to stop Alameda County from eliminating monthly welfare checks for more than half of the...

What a difference a week makes. In third place a day after the June 3 election, prosecutor Lane Liroff now appears to have se...