Industry Watch - By Peter B. Matuszak - An East Coast law firm enhanced its San Diego presence last week when it lured the gen...

Industry Watch - By Drew Combs - Intellectual-property litigator Steven D. Hemminger has joined the Palo Alto office of Akin G...

LOS ANGELES - Marquee trial lawyer William S. Lerach confirmed Friday he may retire from the plaintiffs' firm he founded in 20...

Forum Column - Peter Scheer, director of the California First Amendment Coalition, explains how the Tracy City Council is usin...

SACRAMENTO - The first consumer class action against Ford Motor Co. over the safety of its Explorer sport utility vehicle begi...

Focus Column - By James Martin and Judith Posner - Collecting attorney fees from appellate courts is getting harder all the ti...

Industry Watch - By William-Arthur Haynes - SAN FRANCISCO - Thelen Reid Brown Raysman & Steiner is thinking big, as eviden...

Child psychiatrist William Ayres talks outside a San Mateo County courtroom. Ayres says alleged victims of his sexual abuse sh...

SAN FRANCISCO - The massive state and federal water projects that have allowed arid California regions to bloom with cities an...

LOS ANGELES - In a widely watched case with national interest, the state Supreme Court will consider for a second time whether...

On the Move

San Diego County Superior Court Judge Robert P. Dahlquist wins kudos for keeping the attention on the lawyers and cases before...

On the eve of San Francisco District Attorney Kamala Harris’ re-election kickoff, she has no announced opponents, high approva...

LOS ANGELES - Despite having a key witness discredited and most of the case's physical evidence destroyed in a police bungle, ...

Web Exclusive - William S. Lerach may be preparing to step down from his San Diego plaintiffs' firm. Legal experts say the Mi...

Forum Column – By Ellen Waldman – The birth of Vice President Cheney’s grandson set tongues of all political stripes wagging. ...

In one of several asbestos-exposure cases filed against a global engineering-and-construction conglomerate, a Los Angeles Coun...

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...