In nation's largest county, some defendants choose guilt over trip to court. ...

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

A boom in Silicon Valley's startup economy amid the rise of cloud computing and big data is driving up the demand for corpor...

The latest issue of a journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences explores the complex shifts occurring in U.S cour...

"The Science of Persuasion," by Brad Bradshaw, examines the way jurors make decisions, and how that knowledge can be used effe...

In "Burning Down the House," author Nell Bernstein examines how juvenile incarceration often makes problems worse for our yout...

The harsh reality is that sterilizations have been taking place in our women's prisons for many years in different forms. By M...

The majority in Hobby Lobby presented a decision both morally correct and historically sound, consistent with the firml...

Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani LLP won a significant arbitration victory this week on behalf of two Lafayette-based firms seeki...

Former Goldman banker Matthew Korenberg had been under investigation since 2009. The case had been given prosecutorial authori...

San Diego-based breast cancer drug developer Seragon Pharmaceuticals Inc. relied on Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC to...

When a court-appointed California lawyer sought compensation for representing his federal murder defendant client, a judge unf...

Stanford puts on e-commerce conference ...

Just as Aereo retrofitted antiquated regulation to cover emerging technologies, Hobby Lobby quietly updated the ...

Small law firms are driving an uptick in legal industry mergers, as they actively seek to consolidate their regional power or ...

In a lawsuit with major implications for price fixing cases in California, a federal appeals court decided to rehear a case it...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Kenly Kiya Kato, a sole practitioner in Riverside County, will sit in the court's Eastern Division. ...

W. Davis Smith's tenure was marked by a rapidly evolving energy industry as well as challenges to some of the company's bigger...

To resolve federal and state lawsuits against HP and many of its executives for the botched acquisition of Autonomy Corp. the ...

On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court issued opinions in the remaining civil cases it had on its docket this term. Here's a summar...

With a whopping $1.57 trillion worth of deals announced worldwide, M&A valuations in the first half of the year reached le...

Retired judge Steven Jahr will go back to retirement following a two-year stint spent stewarding reforms to the Administrative...

Judge Michael Virga will work long hours to get a civil case in his court resolved before trial.

New York's highest court ruled the estates of bankrupt firms can't claim profits from matters begun there before being taken e...

Defense lawyers are scouring their cases for constitutional violations by investigators and prosecutors thanks to a months-lon...

The creation of Common Core databases is a double whammy danger to our children and their teachers. By Betty Raskoff Kazmin ...

In a decision with far-reaching implications, the state Supreme Court allowed an undocumented employee's discrimination case f...

Lloyd Irving Taylor, a former tax lawyer, was convicted of 19 federal charges in an elaborate scheme that involved opening ban...