Transparency is not a lofty, or overly ambitious goal. It is as important for lawyers as it is for clients. Not only does tran...

An attorney's failure to contest his juvenile client's 69-years-to-life sentence as cruel and unusual punishment amounted to i...

A federal jury awarded Apple Inc. a patent trial win late Friday, its second San Jose defense triumph in a month. ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers cannot yet grab $1.2 million in attorney fees in their lawsuit accusing the State Bar of withholding demog...

In McQueen, the state high court held that a conservator may not recover attorney fees incurred in fraudulent transfer action ...

London-based partner William Voge has been elected the firm's next global chairman and managing partner, edging out Los Angele...

Joseph G. Cavallo and Emanuel Karl Hudson, along with their client, are accused of requesting up to $20 million from the man i...

Rick Cohen is the new chief operating officer for the Neil Young startup. ...

Steven A. O'Connor said he'd made mistakes and wouldn't continue in the sanity phase of a Modesto murder trial. Though the iss...

A planned $6 billion tieup of two California-based engineering and construction firms would create the largest publicly traded...

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

A Riverside County Superior Court judge ruled Friday that California Baptist University violated the civil rights of a transge...

The panel found that prosecutors violated Randall Amado's Brady rights by failing to produce evidence that one of its key witn...

A federal judge in Fresno ruled Friday that a deal to transfer water from senior water rights holders near Sacramento to farme...

Environmentalists fighting a developer's plans to build a new city on the outskirts of Los Angeles will make their arguments a...

The elusive goal to supply free lawyers to the poor in civil cases will get an updated look 50 years after Gideon v. Wainwrigh...

Despite gloomy messages that the state judicial system could crumble without a major funding boost, several large county court...

Judges appear somewhat skeptical of nixing an Alameda County ordinance that requires the pharmaceutical industry to manage and...

Richard Huffman is known for his intelligence on the bench and as chair of a Judicial Council committee.

San Francisco attorney Michael Burt has become known as one of the premier capital defense attorneys in the nation. ...

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Tibco Software Inc. Palo Alto ...

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

Alameda County Judge C. Don Clay likes to apply logic when handling tough criminal trials.

Rebecca Dugan, who's served 27 years on the Riverside bench, handles a massive pretrial calendar.

As attorneys we should all be concerned about the unauthorized practice of law and the damage it causes to our community, our ...

A recent family law opinion found that parties may restrict the court's jurisdiction to modify adult child support, but to do ...

An L.A. prosecutor, a Palo Alto sole practitioner and a San Diego law firm partner were elected to the State Bar Board of Trus...

The lawsuit, filed Thursday in the Northern District by civil liberties groups, is brought on behalf of five California reside...

Wayne Martin Fong pleaded guilty to counts of grand theft, money laundering ...

Environmental groups allege the U.S. Forest Service is ignoring growing scientific evidence of the ecological value of burned ...