Law firms have been stepping up their efforts to organize pro bono activities in support of returning military personnel. But ...

After four years of dormancy, the heirs of John Steinbeck are ready to go back to court, with two competing lawsuits filed in ...

Alameda County Judge Frank Roesch decides tough cases but is most satisfied when settling them.

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.

San Diego-based ecoATM has 1,500 locations nationwide and scores in California, but its model has come under scrutiny because ...

Judge Paul Herbert knows how to talk diametrically opposed parties into unlikely settlements.

Federal, state and local governments are being forced to revisit their procedures for handling individuals traveling into thei...

It sounds like an easy way to fill budget holes: let a few medical marijuana dispensaries open to serve the over 1 million act...

Jones Day partner Bruce S. Bennett can finally get a good night's sleep after a federal judge on Friday approved Detroit's Cha...

Defense attorneys representing a pharmacist accused of participating in a massive conspiracy to sell painkillers illegally fil...

In California, the legal industry lost nearly 2,600 in September from a month earlier, according to the latest data available....

Fenwick & West LLP was awarded $820,642 in fees for San Francisco-based communication application Voxernet LLC after a fed...

Guidelines for disciplining lawyers may get a slight overhaul, as State Bar leaders voted Friday to gather public input on pro...

In a petition filed with the Sacramento County Superior Court, the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation called for swift action b...

Legal analysts say the Disney subsidiary's subpoena of Google about an "Avengers" movie trailer leaker is a rare move. ...

Before the tenure of departing Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of wiretaps was generally relegated, as if by gentlemen's...

After being hit with seven CEQA lawsuits this summer, the state is looking to the federal government to declare the massive ra...

California can sue the maker of a fetus gender test kit for false advertising even though buyers of the kit already settled a ...

Cancer-stricken Justice Paul Turner keeps a full caseload while waiting for a liver transplant.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Michael Williams didn't start a legal career until middle age, but now he's on the bench.

Gov. Jerry Brown's lieutenants first contacted Mariano-Florentino Cuellar about a seat on the state Supreme Court in 2011. Thr...

Moore, a mediator with IVAMS Inc., is known as experienced, persistent, and someone who works hard to help parties reach a res...

Could the CEO of a California-based company be forced to file a wrongful termination action only in Delaware if his employer a...

The focus on private prison companies as the source - or even the salient representation - of all evil in American incarcerati...

Outsourcing can be an integral tool in an attorney's toolbox to provide efficient and cost effective legal representation to a...

The Landau Lawyers League held it's 9th annual Fall basketball all-star games and 5th annual skills challenges last Thursday a...

Excitement about China's rapidly growing film industry has been tempered by new conerns of censorship. ...

While traditionally, neutrals have been retired judges or former senior partners from private firms, a new crop of mediators a...

Experts are divided over the future repercussions for both bar and bench of Wednesday's decision from the U.S. Court of Appeal...