In an important case that could place new limits on the free-speech rights of students, the U.S. Supreme Court wrestled Monday...

LOS ANGELES - A proposed $36 million settlement between 290,000 bar review takers and the nation's leading bar review provider...

SAN FRANCISCO - The State Bar has selected 25 members for its new Council on Access and Fairness, a group that - to the chagri...

Forum Column - By Peter Scheer - Before liberals get too sanctimonious about the Libby conviction, they should remember some r...

Focus Column - By Brendan J. Fogarty - The insurance policy appraisal process is good for determining the amount, but not nece...

Web Exclusive - On the Take? San Francisco prosecutors laid out a case of "bribes, lies and public corruption" on Monday agai...

Forum Column - By Timothy J. Dowling - How's this for an aggressive use of the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause: A large prod...

WASHINGTON - In a loss for the Bush administration, the Supreme Court on Monday let stand a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

Boston-based Goodwin Procter is continuing its aggressive West Coast expansion by placing five lateral hires in a second Los A...

WASHINGTON - Democrats may have the necessary ammunition to demand that a special prosecutor investigate whether Bush administ...

SAN JOSE - In a victory for the government in the criminal case against two former executives of Brocade Communications System...

Contra Costa County Commissioner Ronald Creighton is described as a born peacemaker with a demeanor that encourages feuding pa...

Lawyers marvel at Judge Gregory L. Prickett's legal scholarship and even call him a 'savant.' ...

JUDGE NAMED - The White House has nominated the presiding judge of the San Diego County Superior Court to be a U.S. district j...

LOS ANGELES - A fresh raise for law firm associates this year has renewed discussions among corporate counsel about how to tri...

For his part, Miller, a commercial litigator for 32 years, said he fields calls routinely from legal recruiters and turns them...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - Greenberg Traurig's Orange County patent prosecution practice has a new client. And she's only ...

Letter to the Editor - J. Joseph Wall Jr. - In response to Eric van Ginkel's article "Asserting an Anti-SLAPP Petition in Arbi...

LOS ANGELES - The state's political watchdog group regulating campaign finance and spending named a new executive director Fri...

Focus Column - By Gordon E. Bosserman - The California Supreme Court's recent decision on notice to class members probably wil...

Industry Watch - SAN FRANCISCO - At the outset of hanging a shingle after years of practice at a large firm, there seems to be...

Industry Watch - LOS ANGELES - San Fernando Valley lawyer Mishawn Nolan is moving from Encino-based Greenberg & Bass to St...

As some of California's oldest street gangs grow in wealth and organization, Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is pro...

LOS ANGELES - Cisco Systems' $3.2 billion acquisition of WebEx last week marked the return of a familiar M&A tool: the ten...

SAN FRANCISCO - Landowners may have a tougher time escaping the entire bill for cleaning up Superfund sites, as a result of a ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger named three new judges to Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday, two of them assista...

Forum Colum - By Jeffrey A. Lowe - When the decision about which agency should regulate a ham sandwich is determined by the nu...

Industry Watch - The San Diego law firm Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch announced last week the creation of a health ...

Industry Watch - Land-use partner Jeffrey Haber today jumped from longtime firm Latham & Watkins to Paul, Hastings, Janofs...

Forum Column - By George Caplan and Kristopher Davis - The Altamont Pass wind turbines produce a lot of energy, but they also...