The San Francisco U.S. attorney's office has struck a plea deal resolving its long-simmering prosecution of a former Mercury I...

A former Morrison & Foerster partner and his wife pleaded not guilty Thursday to felony charges in connection with an alle...

The arrival Thursday of litigation partners Paul J. Hall and Todd C. Toral to DLA Piper from Nixon Peabody brings the number o...

Heating up the political debate over "don't ask, don't tell," a pair of U.S. senators fired off a letter to Attorney General E...

The mother of Michael Jackson has sued concert promoter AEG Live alleging it holds liability for the late singer's death, in a...

John Roos, the former Wilson Sonsini CEO and current ambassador to Japan, shared his views Wednesday on the importance of U.S....

California's problems go far deeper and reach back further than the current recession, by John Caragozian, Karl Manheim and Do...

Should the judge or the insurance company decide whether an employee receives health care benefits? By Glenn Kantor of Kantor ...

When does a photograph of a naked child "cross the line" from innocent snapshot to child porn? One mother's shocking story, by...

After arbitrating 300 cases, Joe W. Hilberman doesn't take anything for granted because as the Eagles' lyric says 'They will n...

After decades of confrontations, two organizations join under a common cause, by Christopher B. Dolan, Consumer Attorneys of C...

Gary H. Ritchey, formerly a litigation partner at Townsend and Townsend and Crew in Palo Alto, transitioned his practice to Ho...

A Las Vegas attorney is filing an unprecedented wave of lawsuits against nonprofit groups, political parties and blogs for inf...

California's quest to tackle global warming is emerging as a dividing issue in the race for attorney general between two big-c...

In complex litigation, parallel settlement communications can break down barriers and erase damage caused by party-specific co...

The issue of who should pay attorney fees in the Proposition 8 case has been postponed while the case moves through the appell...

At the Republic of Ecuador's request, a magistrate judge on Wednesday ordered a man who secretly videotaped an Ecuadorean judg...

Lawyers representing active and former military service members who are suing the government over their discharges or pending ...

A Los Angeles attorney's long quest to receive a $1.1 million class-action referral fee from the Milberg Weiss law firm came t...

An Oakland woman got an unfair federal trial on charges stemming from a 2001 Earth Liberation Front firebombing at a Seattle u...

A sports agent who sued his former agency to void a non-compete clause has settled the case, leaving the legal questions aroun...

In what real estate brokers are calling the San Francisco Bay Area's largest industrial investment of the year, a 721,204-squa...

Mary Nichols, who is heading up California's push to implement its landmark global warming law, said Wednesday that efforts to...

Even if some state appellate courts reach a decision before oral argument that doesn't mean this practice should be dismissed ...

The National Labor Relations Board's new Democratic majority will likely result in more pro-union decisions, by Alan R. Berkow...

While gift giving is nothing new, marketing programs for certain court reporting business merit a second look, by Early Langle...

September 16, 2010 For a successful 2011 proxy season, U.S. companies are wise to start preparing now for say on pay votes, b...

How to safeguard your business against complex information security obligations when IT functions are outsourced, by Daniel B....

After having spent at least $32 million on litigation, the Metropolitan Transportation Authority has dropped remaining claims ...

Revealing new details into an alleged cover-up of driver complaints related to a 2005 Toyota Motor Corp. recall a lawyer for p...