Employment in the legal sector remained mostly flat last month, according to a Department of Labor report released Friday, wit...

In the legal world, it's a common career path to clock time in a U.S. attorney's office before jumping ship to the white-colla...

Peter Walzer of Walzer & Melcher examines a recent U.S. Supreme Court case that clarifies the child abduction provision to...

There are many minefields that a lender should be careful to avoid when filing a breach of guaranty action, writes Alan Petlak...

As of July 1, construction projects in California that are one acre or more will be subject to new stormwater control regulati...

As expected, Rachel F. Moran, a longtime professor at UC Berkeley School of Law, who took a leave of absence to help found the...

Fourteen employees of one of China's most successful factories, with customers like Apple, Sony, HP and Dell, have attempted s...

After Congress finally agreed to recognize their service last year with one-time payments of $15,000, Filipino soldiers who fo...

A bombshell revelation about a law firm's warning to Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could shift the dynamics in the nation's biggest-eve...

Judge Ari Symons built a reputation on both coasts as a hard-charging prosecutor. She says the goal was justice, not winning.

David Bergstein, the film financier whose companies are fighting to stay out of bankruptcy, and construction magnate Ron Tutor...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

A legal fight has erupted between Crowell & Moring and some of its former clients over how a settlement from the 1986 hija...

SAN DIEGO - The Civil Service Commission Wednesday green-lighted the layoffs of up to 35 dependency lawyers in the San Diego p...

A former executive of a San Diego-based biotechnology firm admitted to manipulating the data for a new prenatal Down syndrome ...

San Bernardino County's district attorney's and public defender's offices are considering laying off 20 employees and eliminat...

A coalition of environmentalists and water suppliers launched a legal challenge to a deal signed by state water regulators and...

Under a proposal unveiled Thursday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, companies and inventors would be able to get a muc...

A federal judge here has approved a settlement that helps the homeless with disabilities by maintaining for at least two years...

Mark Litvack, an entertainment lawyer who led a crackdown on piracy while serving as a director of legal affairs at the Motion...

Edwin Reeser debuts his series of driving guides to popular road racing courses. ...

Ten years into litigation over the Boy Scouts' deal with San Diego granting them land use rights in Mission Bay Park and Balbo...

Mark Neubauer of Steptoe & Johnson says the latest political fad here in California threatens democracy as we know it. ...

If mediation is an arthroscopic procedure and trial is major surgery, Judge Patricia Collins is a doctor who's operated in bot...

Entertainment executive Ben Silverman, who as a young television agent helped sell the U.S. rights for the hit game show "Who...

The San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, often categorized as too liberal and out of sync with the more cons...

Danny Davis made his name as an indefatigable criminal defense lawyer who beat back heinous charges against an accused child m...

After years as a fierce advocate as an attorney for the poor, Santa Clara Judge Diane Ritchie is learning to step back and obs...