Former government officials and civil liberties advocates clashed over the National Security Agency's PRISM surveillance progr...

Joseph Burton of Duane Morris LLP explains the emerging privacy and surveillance issues surrounding mobile technology. ...

Former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement director John T. Morton on Sunday told an audience of lawyers that some of Ame...

Julie Myers Wood of Guidepost Solutions LLC explains the legal obstacles standing in the way of comprehensive immigration refo...

Proposals to give judges more discretion when sentencing criminal offenders are suddenly coming from every direction. ...

Richard Frasch discusses the importance of streamlining venture capital transactions. ...

A day before draft legislation against human trafficking goes to the American Bar Association's House of Delegates for approva...

Robert Nelson of Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP explains why a recent Supreme Court decision is a "potential game ...

Lisa Gilford, who helped Toyota negotiate its $1.6 billion settlement in a class action over sudden unintended acceleration, i...

In an address Saturday evening, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy called lawyers of the American Bar Association to a...

What is the role of governmental oversight in the banking industry? A recent panel discussion on the subject quickly turned in...

Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is launching a third Germany office in Munich, helping to further ...

Patent transactions valued in the hundreds of millions of dollars appear to be slowing even as patent deal volume is on the ri...

25 years after joining the 4th District, Justice Hollenhorst still likes the work, and he still likes people.

Jeffrey King's first love is politics - he served briefly as a mayor before taking the bench

Courts are crowded, staffs have been greatly reduced and judges are overworked. Getting to trial is likely to be years away an...

A plaintiffs' attorney asked me this question recently. Although my experience in mediations I am conducting is that the cases...

"The Tough Luck Constitution," by Andrew Koppelman, is partly an account of the Affordable Care Act's background, and is partl...

Aug. 10 is the 25th anniversary of the passage of the Civil Liberties Act, legislation which provided a formal apology for the...

According to Mortgage Resolution Partners, the lender that is owed $300,000 on a performing loan paying 6 percent interest wil...

The state high court recently held that an agency has discretion to study a project's impacts compared to future conditions un...

Susan Hack, a partner at San Diego-based Higgs Fletcher & Mack, was awarded the prestigious Daniel T. Broderick III award ...

Rachel Van Cleave, dean of Golden Gate University School of Law, talks about the importance of young lawyers becoming active i...

Lawyers say advancements in automobile technology are increasingly turning driving a car into operating an online computer on ...

The American Constitution Society's Bay Area Lawyer Chapter and Keker & Van Nest LLP hosted a reception and speech on Aug....

At San Diego's Ronis & Ronis, three generations of lawyers from the same family handle some of the region's biggest crimin...

A federal judge issued a permanent injunction Wednesday forcing the government to hold bond hearings for immigrant detainees w...

Lee Jay Berman, of the American Institute of Mediation, talks about training people to be better mediators. ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found another way to side with environmentalists in a stormwater pollution case, several...

Zack Simkover, a regional marketing specialist for Reed Smith LLP, recently raced in Les Trois Etapes, a charity cycling race ...