Federal, state, and local officials announced Monday that those responsible for a San Francisco Bay oil spill will pay $44.4 m...
Northern District Chief Judge James Ware issued an order Monday unsealing videotapes of last year's Proposition 8 trial on the...
Tanya L. Forsheit will draw on her personal and professional experiences as a wife, mother and former big firm partner who lau...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Court, bar leaders vow to fight cuts
By Don Debenedictisn
Declaring the state courts in a financial crisis, leaders of the judiciary and the State Bar have promised to fight to reverse...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit dismisses DNA case as moot
By John Roemer
The 9th Circuit announced Monday that it has dismissed an appeal set for en banc oral argument Tuesday over mandatory DNA coll...
General Counsel for Suntech Power Holdings, Co. in San Francisco ...
Judge Javier Alcala isn't won over by sob stories, but his boot-strap past has made him compassionate.
Despite an expected government repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" today, lawyers for gay rights advocates are fighting to keep ...
What are the chances that Los Angeles will house the newest NFL franchise? By Kenneth A. Stahl of Chapman University School of...
Five steps for defense counsel to keep in mind when negotiating with a prosecutor. By Matthew Schonbrun of the Los Angeles cit...
Perkins Coie LLP has expanded its emerging companies practice group with the addition of James F. "Jim" Jensen, who joins the ...
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye and members of the Judicial Council repeatedly promised California judges that they are chan...
A Riverside man was awarded nearly $5.4 million for injuries he suffered in a construction accident. ...
One in four of the nation's lawyers plan to add to their legal staff in the next quarter, according to a new study released Mo...
New York-based Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP is the latest East Coast firm to open a Silicon Valley office, hiring a...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activities and the lawyers involved.
Commissioner Corinne C. Miesfeld may not look strict, but she unflinchingly applies the law.
U.S. District Judge Garland E. Burrell Jr.'s plans to take senior status next year will open up a seat on the Eastern District...
A report released last week by Wells Fargo Legal Specialty Group showed an increase in revenue, net income and profits per par...
Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye has come out swinging against legislation that would strip the Judicial Council of much of i...
A superior court jury tasked with deciding a messy Wall Street dispute returned a split verdict Friday that handed both sides ...
Dependency court Judge Barbara A. Buchholz's independent streak is reflected in her decisions.
Senior vice president, general counsel and secretary for Cadence Pharmaceuticals Inc. San Diego ...
Commissioner Robert C. Rice has an understated way of moving a lot of cases very quickly.
Judges and Judiciary
Ginsburg offers glimpse of life on U.S. Supreme Court
By John Roemer
The death penalty was one of many topics U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg touched on during a lively d...
Perspective
Bill expands statute that criminalizes disruptive presence at schools
By Karen Natividadn
AB 123 makes it a misdemeanor to willfully and knowingly create a disruption at schools. By Sloan Simmons and Summer Dalessand...
The situation in Abkhazia raises important questions about statehood and self-determination on the international stage. By Jos...
Military veterans are in a unique position to be largely unaffected by the rising cost of law school tuition. By Adam Noakes o...