Construction defect cases involving residential real estate are the result of broken homes. It is a product placed into the st...

A lawyer is just wasting time if deposition questions do not elicit useful information. Attorneys need deposition flight plans...

'Bartnicki' addresses the situation in which a newsroom receives something from unknown sources that editors recognize as auth...

Senior attorneys in the job market must be prepared for questions about their client base. ...

LOS ANGELES - The family of criminal-defense attorney Barry L. Levin, a former Los Angeles police officer, has established a m...

SAN FRANCISCO - On the corner of Pasteur Avenue and a dirt road, in the Cambodian capital of Phnom Penh, the green and red "Un...

Immunity often is considered the most desirable of defenses because it is 'an entitlement not to stand trial or face the other...

Any day now, a U.S. appeals court in Texas could decide in U.S. v. Emerson whether to invalidate a federal statute on S...

LOS ANGELES - Stung by a $295,000 settlement to a man who claimed he was falsely imprisoned by deputies on a botched drug stak...

SAN FRANCISCO - Has California become too SLAPP-happy? Division Two of the San Francisco-based 1st District Court of Appeal se...

SAN FRANCISCO - A month after Brobeck Phleger & Harrison's last labor and employment practice head died suddenly in the fi...

The ampersand is elegant and difficult to write, which lends an exalted quality to a firm name. ...

SAN JOSE - In a legal victory for the notorious motorcycle club, a federal judge has ruled authorities lacked probable cause t...

SAN FRANCISCO - The chairman of the state's Independent System Operator, one of Gov. Gray Davis' top advisers on the energy cr...

LOS ANGELES - I'm apparently not supposed to know this, but late last week Rafael Perez, the cocaine-stealing LAPD officer who...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington s...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a Washington st...

SAN FRANCISCO - An Internal Revenue Service program that helps international companies abide by agency rules will set up its ...

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SAN FRANCISCO - Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati partner Susan Creigton, one of the country's most outspoken critics of Mi...

SAN FRANCISCO - At the behest of Attorney General Bill Lockyer, lawmakers have undertaken the first significant changes to Pro...

SAN FRANCISCO - Ruling in a same-sex harassment case, a federal appellate court on Monday reinstated a suit by a male Washing...

SANTA ANA - An Orange County judge Friday dismissed eavesdropping and conspiracy to commit eavesdropping charges against Glend...

Harriet Welch, managing partner for the Los Angeles office of Cleveland's Arter & Hadden, isn't sure where the rumors abou...

Edison International's independent power producer, Edison Mission Energy, through its holding company Mission Energy Holding, ...

Directors and executive officers of three California banks have helped their businesses go public without underwriters. Premie...

San Francisco's McCutchen Doyle Brown & Enersen and fiance Piper Marbury Rudnick & Wolfe called off their merger plans...

It is not safe to assume that a license is actually open-source code until you have reviewed the terms. ...

Shortly after World War II ended, the United States reneged on a promise to provide medical and pension benefits to Filipinos ...

Arriving at Bangkok International Airport, former assistant U.S. attorney Marc Greenberg hadn't anticipated that U.S. Embassy ...