In certain cases, referring clients to other lawyers is the best way to boost one's own business, writes K.C. Victor. - Forum ...

Special assessments that are applied evenly to all parcels within a district now run a high risk of being viewed as special ta...

With little progress made this year on an ambitious intellectual property agenda, leading senators introduced a new enforcemen...

A federal jury finally heard parts of the recorded conversations between attorney Terry N. Christensen and private eye Anthony...

Successful mediators should be skilled at shifting styles to meet the needs of the case or the individuals involved, writes Al...

The time may be coming for corporate lawyers to put their golf clubs away. ...

Former California Senate Majority Leader John Burton has settled a lawsuit brought by a woman who accused him of sexual harass...

A federal grand jury retuned a felony indictment against attorney Pierce O'Donnell late Thursday, charging the prominent plain...

Web Exclusive - Criminal defendants do not have a right to speak during sentencing hearings unless they are under oath and a p...

An attorney for a defendant in the corruption case of former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona asked a judge Thursday to remov...

The State Bar Board of Governors has signed on a partner in the San Francisco office of Farella Braun + Martel to its committe...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Art Nakazato declined to grant prosecutors their detention request in the Henry Nicholas fraud case, a d...

“I’ve drunk the Kool-Aid,” says U.S. District Court Judge Otis D. Wright II, who is launching one of the first federal drug co...

E-mails between Bank of America executives, obtained by the FBI, prove an elaborate kickback scheme existed between banks that...

Jurors today will begin hearing the recorded conversations between attorney Terry N. Christensen and private eye Anthony Pelli...

A new Health Department proposal would subvert sensible state laws regulating birth control, writes Cristina Page. - Forum Col...

Based on the state's alarming statistics, the Legislature enacted a series of changes to California’s foreclosure laws designe...

U.S. District Judge David O. "problem-solving court" is in many ways like a standard drug court or gang court. What is unique ...

A team of private and public interest lawyers has won a bid to preserve welfare benefits for thousands of Alameda County's poo...

Hosted by Pepperdine University School of Law and the Southern California Mediation Association, the meeting aims to address p...

The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to decide whether local governments can engage private attorneys to go head-to-h...

H. Dean Steward filed motions Wednesday to dismiss the indictment against his client Lori Drew, an alleged "cyber-bully" accus...

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the Second Amendment provides an individual right to bear arms, attention has turned...

Lawyers for toy giant Mattel began trying to persuade a federal jury Wednesday to force competitor MGA Entertainment to pay bi...

Web Exclusive - Nokia and chip maker Qualcomm agree to settle all outstanding legal disputes. ...

Web Exclusive - San Diego filed suit Wednesday against Countrywide Financial Corp. in an effort to block the mortgage giant fr...

Barring late changes, Larry Sonsini and his law firm - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati - will not be named in a civil law...

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Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps has installed the firm's first partner-in-charge for its San Diego office.

Todd M. Schneider embraces technology at his San Francisco law firm. “There has been an uproar ­— people saying, 'Oh my goodne...