A security guard who ate lunch and dinner while on duty during shifts did not waive his right to meals by doing so, a San Fran...

Reeling from public outrage and lawsuits over the practice of canceling policyholders' medical coverage after they fall ill, h...

California Supreme Court justices have begun sharing stock information with one another in an effort to prevent conflicts of i...

Before noon Monday, lawyers at San Diego's Coughlin Stoia Geller Rudman & Robbins had filed a securities fraud class-actio...

The U.S. attorney for California's Central District dismantled his office's public integrity section last week and reintegrate...

A recent court ruling unfavorable to public interest lawyers has sparked a race in the Legislature between two competing elect...

Nationally known for his pioneering prosecution of a date-rape drug case, former Deputy District Attorney Timothy R. Walsh fin...

Forum Column - By Jeff Kichaven - Mediators can take advantage of the collective wisdom of crowds when handling cases that inv...

The U.S. Supreme Court added five other new cases to its docket Monday, dealing with these issues: habeas, voting rights, immi...

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Commissioners of the San Francisco Housing Authority testified in Superior Court before Judge Ernest H. Goldsmith on Friday th...

Arnold & Porter is beefing up its San Francisco office with the help of three well-known Bingham McCutchen litigators: Tre...

Attorneys for lawyers representing a patent holding company accused of wrongdoing by an in-house Cisco Systems attorney on a t...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Craig Tanner moved to the eighth firm of his 15-year legal career last week, when he joined...

A detective formerly with internal affairs connected one of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants, a retired police officer, to th...

San Jose and Orange County attorney Gary L. Proctor will be remembered in two services later this month. ...

A Santa Monica lawyer has won a $7.7 million arbitration award for his client, Singapore-based Orient Global Aviation, against...

Focus Column - By Mary Craig Calkins - Companies must look to insurance to defray the costs of defending “inconvenient” climat...

Industry Watch - By Pat Broderick - Jeremy D. Glaser considers himself as much an entrepreneur as a lawyer. It's why he signed...

Industry Watch - By Jonathan Vanian - Based Gordon & Rees established a new outpost in Seattle last week, on the heels of ...

Forum Column - By Steven G. Mehta - The Internet is chock full of tools that can provide useful assistance during the mediatio...

The Association of Corporate Counsel is set to release its first ever salary survey of in-house counsel in southern California...

Richard D. Fraade, 1943-2008, known as the "immigration attorney to the stars" for his work representing entertainment and spo...

Fearing the spectacle of District Attorney Steve Cooley being cross-examined on the stand by one of his own deputies, a judge ...

The state has agreed to pay $9 million to a teenage girl who lost both legs after crashing her car into a broken guardrail alo...

Many California counties are still struggling to meet the old smog-forming ozone standards, let alone the stricter standards l...

A State Bar diversion program for errant lawyers is under increased scrutiny because a former public defender accused of sexua...

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

Industry Watch - By By Rebecca U. Cho - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and g...

The recent decision setting new smog-forming ozone standards by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency likely will head to c...