Henry T. Nicholas III, the 6-foot-6 billionaire engineer and former Broadcom CEO, spent several hours in the Santa Ana federal...

For years, strict privacy laws in California have put a virtual padlock on patients' medicine cabinets. Now, state lawmakers a...

The State Bar's process for revising its code of professional conduct has flown under the radar of many attorneys. ...

Retired Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Robert Einstein, 1924-2008, died Monday morning in Long Beach after a long ill...

Is a SAG deal imminent? Not likely. Instead, we may be sliding toward another Hollywood work stoppage, writes Jonathan Handel....

In the 1970s, U.S. District Judge Ronald M. Whyte moved to San Jose from Southern California in part to get out from under the...

Chicago-based Chapman and Cutler has nabbed a public finance partner from Nixon Peabody.

Melvyn I. Weiss, the class-action lawyer who represented Holocaust survivors, aggrieved investors and other victims with great...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday rejected a bid by a Beverly Hills-based erotic-photo publisher that sought to hold Visa and Mast...

Citing a landmark ruling last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, a San Francisco federal judge has invalidated three Stanford Uni...

Although its formal launch has been pushed back to the fall, Houston-based Baker Botts' new Palo Alto office is up and running...

The benefits of a policy that allows for a company to predict with certainty how it will be treated if it confesses will lead ...

Weakening Major League Baseball's grip on companies that offer fantasy baseball leagues to the public, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

Anthony T. Falzone, who directs the Fair Use Project at Stanford University's Center for Internet and Society, won a free spee...

Proposition 99's transparent purpose is to confuse the voters and divert their attention from the competing Proposition 98, wr...

Since its first gay-related ruling in 1951, the state high court has been inching its way toward the strict scrutiny standard ...

"The prosecution will prove to you beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant, Dorothy Gale, is guilty of murder in the firs...

Proposition 115 was touted as a hard-nosed measure that cracked down on criminal defendants. ...

In the largest-ever class-action settlement of a backdating case, Brocade Communications Systems announced Monday it had reach...

Web Exclusive - A proposed settlement in the litigation over California's overcrowded prisons was released late Monday. ...

Greenberg Traurig continued its Silicon Valley growth, adding a patent litigator from McDermott Will & Emery.

Charles C. Lifland was on the phone by 5:30 a.m. Thursday talking with business people, advisers and other lawyers about a sig...

A federal appeals court Friday overturned an Idaho man's murder-for-hire conviction because the key witness in his trial lied ...

For contractors, perfect performance is no substitute for compliance with the strict rules of the Business and Professions Cod...

Jenine Edwards is making the opening statements for the most important case she has ever worked on. In fact, it's the only cas...

Underscoring the contentiousness of a trial over rights to the popular Bratz doll line, lawyers for Mattel and Bratz manufactu...

Two Supreme Court rulings reflect a recommitment to early case management and early evaluation of competing litigation interes...

Advance consideration of the issues related to evaluative mediation and preparation to meet those issues will result in better...

Candidates vying for Alameda County's sole open judicial seat have raised as much as $92,000 for their campaigns, and as littl...

To the chagrin of attorneys who represent property owners in eminent domain cases, a statewide ballot proposition aimed at res...