Police departments may have a cold case unit for very old crimes, but no proactive unit to deal with ticking time bombs in the...

Manage office romance so you don't have to manage a lawsuit. By Anthony J. Oncidi and Adam Freed

The Contra Costa firefighters' and sheriff's deputies' unions are suing the county retirement system to restore pensions they ...

The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a Federal Circuit case re-affirming the lead compound analysis for determining the...

The diagnostic term for fear of losing power is known clinically as "range anxiety." Here's how I deal with it. By Paul Kiesel

Should officers who report misconduct be subject to discharge merely because their allegations ultimately cannot be substantia...

Marcella O. McLaughlin is making history as the first Latino president of the San Diego County Bar Association. In like fashio...

A State Bar task force is in agreement that new attorneys should receive more hands-on training at the beginning of their care...

Steuart L. Pittman, who cofounded what's now Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, died on Sunday at the age of 93.

The judicial branch may push back against the governor's proposal to take $200 million in courthouse construction funds.

The State Bar is taking a preliminary look at whether to phase out unaccredited law schools, but administrators from such scho...

Disgraced former tomato processing executive Scott F. Salyer was sentenced to six years in federal prison Tuesday for mastermi...

Two lawyers are poised to unleash a flood of lawsuits against a slew of major companies alleging that they are failing to warn...

Amendments to the ABA Model Rules of Professional Conduct permit foreign lawyers to appear in court in certain situations and ...

Shasta County Judge Jack Halpin, who initially retired in 1964, started hearing cases through the state's temporary Assigned J...

The bankruptcy court presiding over Stockton's Chapter 9 case issued a written opinion on Feb. 5. By David Kupetz ...

Many people do not realize that their purchased content not owned - it's rented. By Nick Solish ...

Police Chief Charles Beck has made a courageous decision to reopen the investigation into the incident that led to Dorner's ch...

Entry-level legal hiring and law school recruiting remained almost flat in 2012, according to report released Monday by the Na...

Leadership at Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, which opened in Los Angeles this month, say they're confident in the fir...

Acting in separate cases, the State Bar Court review department said Karl Werner Schoth and Gregory Fulton Stannard should be ...

A Japanese semiconductor company's claim against the co-inventor of one of its patents has no legal grounds, since no federal ...

A State Bar task force today will consider a proposal to require law students have 250 hours of skills training before admissi...

Like schoolkids sweating a math test, federal trial judges must show their work when awarding attorney fees and costs, a 9th U...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy D. Matz left the Central District prosecutor's office to enter private practice this wee...

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

Six female employees of prescription drug company Daiichi Sankyo Inc. filed a putative class action in the Northern District o...