Employment Column – By Kate Gold – An EEOC proclamation and a piece of California legislation remind employers to re-examine h...

Focus Column – By Kirk Pasich – The cooperation clause in an insurance policy requires the policyholder to cooperate with the ...

Prosecutors will get another chance to restore a second-degree-murder conviction against a former San Francisco Bay Area attor...

The Securities and Exchange Commission settled its first two options-backdating cases against Silicon Valley companies Thursda...

SAN DIEGO - A federal judge in San Diego has thrown out fraud charges against two former Gateway Inc. executives, reversing a ...

A San Jose federal judge has granted an award of attorney fees to a Stanford University English professor who sued - and then ...

WASHINGTON - A fatal shooting stemming from a Missouri car theft has unexpectedly deprived the U.S. Supreme Court of a closely...

The first soccer game Santa Rosa trial lawyer and neutral Clayton E. Clement attended was also the first game he coached. ...

Family law Commissioner Louise Bayles-Fightmaster is admired for being able to explain her decisions to people who have no l...

Gregory Reyes, former chief of Brocade Communications Systems Inc., lost his last chance Wednesday to have the criminal stock-...

LOS ANGELES - More than a decade after Los Angeles school officials agreed to improve access and services for students with di...

Forum Column – By David Klehm – The name of the “Secure Borders, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Reform Act of 2007” is a...

A state appellate court gave a boost Wednesday to Overstock.com's claims that a securities research firm colluded with a hedge...

Focus Column – By Russell B. Hill and Jesse Mullholland – A pair of federal rulings breathes new life and vigor into the “firs...

Forum Column – By Judith Golub - The current immigration debate is long overdue because reform is vitally needed. But the gran...

Irell & Manella has denied wrongdoing stemming from a lawsuit filed in April by Charter Communications saying the firm mad...

CALIMESA - There's no road to it, so for a year a finished, state-of-the-art middle school has stood empty - landlocked in a f...

Seventeen years after the murder of an Iranian academic on a Paris street, a federal appeals court has ruled that the slain ma...

A lawsuit that the American Civil Liberties Union filed Wednesday accusing a Boeing Co. subsidiary of facilitating torture of ...

LOS ANGELES - Veteran prosecutor Thomas O'Brien will be selected as the next U.S. attorney for the Central District of Califor...

Working on pro bono projects or cases can be rewarding or miserable for junior associates at law firms. Some junior associates...

Cellular Phone - Simply put, this single device (along with your bar card) could get you hired. Which is the point, right? And...

With the increasing pace of partner moves, practice group acquisitions, spin-off firms, and law-firm mergers, today's lawyers ...

There is no one way for a lawyer to develop business. At my firm, Jeffer, Mangels, Butler & Marmaro, many of the partners ...

People say law school doesn't teach you anything. Anything you can use, anyway. Those same people tell you to forget your hou...

"How do you defend those people?" It's a question that sooner or later every criminal defense lawyer must field, and I've hear...

Being a trial lawyer once was widely viewed as a noble calling. Remember Clarence Darrow and Thurgood Marshall? Remember Atti...

Tax law is one of the most interesting and dynamic areas of law. Tax is a broad discipline with numerous subspecialties, inclu...

When I was a law student at UCLA in the early 1980s, renewable energy was in its infancy.However, there were signs, such as en...

Some lawyers allege that companies are trying to skirt California’s employee-friendly laws by binding their employees to settl...