Chevron Corp. has fought for nine years against a group of Nigerian plaintiffs who claim they suffered human rights abuses und...

Eight lawyers from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld - partners Laura M. Franze, Fraser McAlpine, M. Brett Burns and Roland M...

Musician Billy Preston played with the Beatles and the Rolling Stones, did time in prison, fought a drug habit and died a rock...

San Francisco's Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, a 110-attorney law firm, deferred the start date of three of ...

Covington & Burling is beefing up its Northern California presence as two Heller Ehrman partners jump ship to the Washingt...

Surprising a federal judge, the legal team for Terry N. Christensen appealed one of her decisions before it was actually final...

Employers should consider taking a number of precautionary steps to minimize exposures from an employee's negligent use of a c...

The Supreme Court's Guantanamo decision leaves the U.S. Army no safe haven for the incarceration of its prisoners of war, writ...

Whether it is increased responsibility, exposure, salary or simply convenience, any move you make should improve your career o...

Los Angeles-based Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott has acquired 19-attorney Washington, D.C., firm O'Connor & Hannan. ...

The attorney general of Afghanistan said he learned his first lesson about the United States more than 30 years ago in a cafet...

City Attorney Dennis Herrera didn't waste time responding to the National Rifle Association's lawsuit filed Friday challenging...

U.S. District Judge Margaret Morrow erred when she concluded a businessman who bought and sold stock on a non-public tip could...

California is failing to provide adequate defense for indigent citizens in death penalty cases, one of many costly problems wi...

Sixth District Justice Wendy Duffy described her oral argument style as low-key in comparison with other justices she serves w...

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-...