Four San Diego stockbrokers convicted in 2006 of bilking customers out of $5 million in a pump-and-dump scheme got what will l...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Meredith A. Jury has recused herself from a lawsuit filed by the trustee for bankrupt real estate develo...

Corporate transactional lawyer Yabo Lin moved his practice Monday from Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal to Sidley Austin's Pa...

A San Jose federal judge deferred any decision about Facebook Inc.'s lawsuit against social networking site aggregator Power V...

The U.S. Senate voted Monday to confirm Lucy H. Koh as a federal district judge for the Northern District of California. ...

Voters don't have a constitutional right to a secret ballot when it comes to local property fee elections, the California Supr...

Affirming a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that the federal Bureau of Prisons ha...

Sanctions totaling more than a quarter of a million dollars against Marina del Rey copyright lawyer Anthony Kornarens were wel...

Lawmakers, entertainment executives and media industry analysts voiced concerns at a Congressional hearing Monday about the po...

Marsh & McLennan Cos. spun off investigatory arm Kroll Inc. on Monday, selling the company to Virginia-based professional ...

Kurt Melchior of Nossaman says a recent appellate decision creates a low burden of proof for revoking the license of a profess...

David Grenardo of King & Spalding explains how to argue effectively in order to represent your client's interest to the be...

Gary Watt and L. Maple Lay of The McNamara Law Firm provide some basics to keep in mind when dealing with Code of Civil Proced...

In a race with few fireworks and a crowded field of candidates, the battle to become the next Attorney General has been relati...

Two former top Whittier Law School administrators engaged in constructive fraud and negligent misrepresentation when offering ...

Federal prison inmates can sue for damages employees of private companies operating their lockups, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit ...

Law firms and corporations across the state, seeking to cut costs while building longstanding relationships, are experimenting...

For women who want to impact their law firm's power structure, they must change the focus of their initiatives, writes Patrici...

Lawyers aren't regularly hailed for their fashion sense. But increasingly, law firms are launching practice groups tailor-made...

Counsel of Heritage Provider Network Northridge ...

With the help of California lawyers, a group of investors will purchase San Jose-based SonicWALL Inc. for $717 million pending...

Nine members of Congress from California are turning up the heat on the Federal Housing Finance Agency, warning that its lack ...

A bill that is facing stiff opposition from lender advocacy groups could soon give California homeowners a new legal tool to f...

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...