Attorney General Eric Holder will not have to be deposed to explain why the state secrets privilege was invoked in a case abou...

The Impact Fund, a Berkeley-based organization that provides funding and legal support for civil rights, environmental justice...

The Multicultural Bar Alliance of Southern California held an event at Southwestern Law School on May 16 called "A Celebration...

U.S. officials must give explicit reasons - not merely cite a vague anti-terrorism statute - for denying a visa to the Afghan...

State Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees voted unanimously to provide the branch with another $100 million in funding - ...

It's a fact of life that every year millions of specimens are sent to crime labs for analysis. In recent years tales of proble...

Tomar Mason, who retired from the San Francisco County Superior Court bench in 2011, is adjusting quickly to work as a mediato...

Over the past few years, hundreds of dairy farmers in the state - caught in a battle between high feed costs and lower dairy ...

In one year the number applying for one type - 501(c)(4) "social welfare" status - spiked 50 percent. By Bruce Givner ...

Despite its success, stop-and-frisk is under attack by those who claim it produces illegal searches and racial profiling. By L...

If you want to know how to irritate the clerk, frustrate the judge, baffle opposing counsel, muddy the record, delay the proce...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision that expansively describes public employee protected free speech i...

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a former college athlete can pursue a lawsuit against Redwood City-ba...

Baker & Hostetler LLP snagged a former White House executive, J. David Bournazian, as a litigation partner in its Costa Me...

A San Diego lawyer disbarred this month for operating mortgage-modification scams now faces a lawsuit by attorneys from Arnold...

Proposed state legislation would set strict standards for the use of solitary confinement at state and local juvenile detentio...

Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs and General Counsel of SRI International Menlo Park ...

Real estate investment trust Douglas Emmett Inc. purchased the previous office of Larry Flynt Publications Inc. located at 848...

Latham & Watkins LLP advised Danish investment firm Novo A/S in its purchase of Norwegian pharmaceutical company Xellia Ph...

Immigrant detainees with significant cognitive impairments are no longer facing deportation proceedings alone as the governmen...

Members of a special State Bar committee Wednesday strongly supported the idea of licensing nonlawyers to provide limited lega...

U.S. Supreme Court authority overrides Arizona's ban on abortions beginning at 20 weeks gestation, a 9th Circuit panel held Tu...

The state Supreme Court should uphold the decision in Iskanian protecting agreements to resolve disputes out of court. ...

Plaintiffs' attorney Joseph M. Alioto will not be able to collect $28 million in attorney fees he won earlier this year in a c...

A New York district judge has permitted Keker & Van Nest LLP to withdraw as attorneys in a contentious case in which Chevr...

A Florida jury convicted a Southern California attorney of running a multimillion-dollar stock manipulation and fraud scheme o...

The county's prosecutors' union this week announced its support of Senior Deputy District Attorney Michael Hestrin over incumb...

Gov. Jerry Brown Tuesday named 13 new judges to courts across the state, in the first wave of judicial appointments since Dece...

A San Jose federal judge has given companies defending against infringement lawsuits over industry standard patents a preceden...

After moving frequently in childhood, Raul Sahagun has donned robes and put down roots.