Problems with compensation guarantees to partners at Dewey appear to be more widespread than initially reported. The firm is ...

California's three strikes law casts a wide net that has caught an unexpectedly wide range of criminals; it's time to reform i...

A San Francisco federal judge put the brakes on an effort to widen a one-mile stretch of U.S. Highway 101 that runs through an...

Insurance companies in asbestos cases say they've long been excluded from objecting to deals made between defense and plaintif...

A Northern District law clerk has successfully appealed the denial of health benefits for his same-sex spouse. ...

San Francisco-based Kerr & Wagstaffe LLP helped win a settlement of more than $220 million for its Australian government c...

The city of Costa Mesa's charter resolution will not appear on June's primary ballot. ...

Not only might U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony M. Kennedy decide the fate of the Obama administration's health care law, th...

It's not always intentional when prosecutors violate their discovery obligations, sometimes they simply fail to do the job rig...

The U.S. Supreme Court under the leadership of Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. could clarify its now-mysterious views on fed...

In a highly unusual move in an epic case over Alameda County's disputed right to ban guns on county property, a 9th U.S. Circu...

Superior Court Judge Carol K. Ash has earned much praise for her even-keeled personality.

A roundup of recent real estate deals and the attorneys involved.

A novel medical marijuana case out of Santa Monica centers on the question of whether laboratories may lawfully test the drug ...

Since the reason why someone might choose to be silent is "insolubly ambiguous," it would be wrong to allow a jury to leap to ...

In a broad attack on gay rights, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' leading conservative on Tuesday accused his liberal co...

Newly introduced legislation in the state Assembly would force all state agencies to relocate to Sacramento by 2025 and mandat...

San Francisco County Superior Court is urging minorities in the city to volunteer for civil grand jury service. ...

The co-chairman of Manatt Phelps & Phillips LLP's private equity practice in Los Angeles is heading to DLA Piper LLP as a ...

Questions remain about when an insurance carrier must settle a claim. By Peter S. Selvin of Raines Feldman LLP ...

President Barack Obama hasn't signed the JOBS Act into law but some are already predicting it will have to be retooled, especi...

The Commission on Judicial Performance has admonished a commissioner for insulting lawyers and litigants and commenting in cou...

Support state Senate Bill 1080 to improve financial literacy in California. By Blair Schlecter of the California Council on Ec...

Former Northern District U.S. Attorney Joseph P. Russoniello on Tuesday took on his first case since departing that office in ...

A federal judge must decide which of two federal statutes should apply to Charles Schwab & Co.'s efforts to ban class acti...

A lawyer who played a key role in establishing Greenberg Traurig LLP in Silicon Valley has switched firms to Foley & Lard...

A flaw in the realignment funding formula is preventing California from fixing its prison problem. By Allen Hopper of the ACLU...

n the wake of a series of medical marijuana raids by federal law enforcement, lawmakers in five states are calling on the fede...

An artificial entity cannot learn some ultimate truth about itself by spending money to promote or oppose political candidates...

As more offenders are shifted to local control under California's realignment process, county recidivism statistics could be c...