The Assembly Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday approved SB649, which would allow county prosecutors the discretion to char...

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, a 75-attorney San Francisco firm, added trial lawyer Jessica Grant as a partner. She rece...

Texas-based Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP snatched a top malpractice attorney and seven other lawyers to set up a sub...

A federal judge certified a new class of Kmart cashiers in an ongoing lawsuit against the big box retailer for failing to prov...

Steven L. Harmon has wasted no time instituting a series of aggressive - and sometimes controversial - changes aimed at revamp...

State lawmakers late Monday cut the amount of extra money they planned to grant California courts to $63 million as a result o...

A special State Bar panel unanimously approved a set of proposals Tuesday to require that would-be lawyers take 15 units of la...

Among the numerous legal issues faced by a purchaser acquiring a new company with a brand name is a key question: How to retai...

The court limited the protections from liability for ERISA pension plan fiduciaries afforded by the "presumption of prudence" ...

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The nation's largest health insurer is endangering the lives and violating the civil rights and privacy of its HIV and AIDS p...

Law firm leaders said they have less confidence this year compared to past years that their firms can adapt to the changing le...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Tuesday vacated a lower court ruling in a copyright ownership dispute involvi...

A group of plaintiff's attorneys who have filed dozens of food labeling cases in the Northern District of California hit a bum...

The Department of Justice announced some long-anticipated guidelines on attorney compensation in large bankruptcy cases Tuesday.

Arbitrators can continue deciding on a case-by-case basis whether plaintiffs can assert class claims in arbitration, the U.S. ...

Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Glusman was elected the 82nd president of the association Tuesday.

The state Supreme Court Monday endorsed the expansive application of a unique settlement offer that raises the stakes for civi...

Justice Stephen J. Kane is known as a 'deep thinker' who has a practical streak.

Lawyers for Google Inc. and opposing counsel eager to sue over the company's secretive data collection venture struggled with ...

These may sound like simple questions, but you might be surprised how difficult they can be to answer.

Unless you act quickly, the plaintiff may begin procedures to enforce a judgment in its favor, all before your post-trial moti...

When no one moves to stay the circuit court's mandate pending Supreme Court review, the mandate issues and jurisdiction return...

An economical and potentially legally devastating method for introducing Internet writings into evidence is by requesting judi...

They may no longer be binding, but the U.S. Federal Sentencing Guidelines are still within reach of the Constitution's Ex Post...

The Obama administration is weighing several legal, economic and political factors as it considers whether to overturn a sales...

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

The region's air pollution regulator has sued Los Angeles over its approval of a project which supporters say is critical to m...

President Obama intends to appoint Public Counsel Law Center's Catherine Lhamon as the assistant secretary for civil rights in...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled arbitrators can decide whether arbitration agreements allow class claims to...