A juror's repeated misconduct during the course of a death penalty prosecution warrants a new trial for a convicted murderer, ...

Jerilyn Borack taught before becoming a family law attorney and then judge in Sacramento.

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

General Counsel and Vice President of Sales at American Laser Healthcare Corp. Irvine ...

Former State Bar President James Towery enjoys the challenges of being a Santa Clara judge.

The U.S. Supreme Court isn't exactly a bastion of liberalism. But on criminal issues, it sometimes seems that way compared to ...

Is Carder.su's wrongdoing is so comprehensive and organized that the U.S. government needs to use the RICO statutes to prosecu...

There can be no doubt that judges need to adapt to changing technologies, as much as the law itself has to run to keep up. By ...

The passing of this June marked 60 years since J. Robert Oppenheimer's security clearance was revoked as a national security r...

In one of its most anticipated decisions of the year, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a favorable ruling for securities class ac...

Recent data from the Labor Department marks June as a good month for the U.S. economy with an uptick in jobs for the nationwid...

Experts in branding and communications say the judicial branch's decision to stop referring to its state administrative office...

California Rural Legal Assistance welcomes new deputy director ...

Firm leadership says it's well poised to take a leap abroad, but some observers say McKenna's California offices - arguably ma...

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...