Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati is sloughing off its wealth management practice, but is also helping it f...
Jonathan Michaels of Michaels Law Group asks whether Toyota's gas pedal recall is an appropriate remedy or merely a quick-fix ...
James Wong of Chinney Capital says China is taking baby steps towards making the yuan a universally accepted reserve currency....
Nina Marino of Kaplan Marino says the limitations created by Brady v. Maryland on a prosecutor's duty to disclose does ...
Mark Ross of Integreon highlights the major ethical issues that arise from outsourcing legal work. ...
Letter to the Editor
Attack on the Federalist Society Event Was Disappointing
By Sharon Liangn
David DeGroot, President of the Federalist Society's San Francisco Chapter, says comment about its January 28 event lacked sub...
Lonny Zilberman of Wilson Turner Kosmo lists six legal concerns that small and start-up businesses are at risk of overlooking ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Female Wrestlers' Title IX Suit Can Proceed
By Laura Ernden
A federal appellate panel Monday revived a class-action lawsuit brought by female students who were excluded from the UC Davis...
Prosecutors can try an accomplice for murder, even after a jury convicted the triggerman of the lesser crime of voluntary mans...
Two partners in the Redwood City office of Fish & Richardson, David Miclean and Katherine Prescott, have left for new ven...
As a prosecutor, Thomas Rubinson followed a hunch that a man he had prosecuted was wrongly dealt a life sentence then he fixe...
A one-of-a-kind program at the 2nd District Court of Appeal has been quietly helping those who can't afford representation see...
Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of SanDisk Corp.Milpitas, Calif. ...
Attorneys with the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Fenwick & West persuaded the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Fri...
A state appellate court severely rebuked a San Mateo County judge Friday for repeatedly sentencing a family law lawyer to jail...
A Fresno federal judge has ordered a temporary halt to water pumping restrictions out of the Sacramento San Joaquin River Delt...
A former State Bar employee was sentenced Friday to 2 years and eight months in state prison for stealing $675,000 from the ag...
Biotechs and bankruptcy - not a common duo. But these days, bankruptcy can seem like an attractive option, especially consider...
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...
The message is clear: Big firm job security is a thing of the past. Lawyers, whether seasoned or new to the field, have been s...
Celebrity defense attorney Brian Oxman has received two years of probation for filing a frivolous civil rights claim in a divo...
Job losses in the legal sector hit a five-month low in January, falling to 1,100 from 2,500 a month earlier, according to prel...
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Letter to the Editor
Lost Confidence in Judge Justifies Peremptory Challenge
By Sharon Liangn
District Attorney Dolores Carr explains why she used a peremptory challenge against Superior Court Judge Andrea Bryan. ...
Ken Boehm of the National Legal and Policy Center says the probate battle that began with Anna Nicole Smith's marriage to J. H...
John Browning of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons follows up his account of botched robberies with tales of unsuccessful get...
Michael Stewart and Isaiah Weedn of Sheppard Mullin advise on how to reduce your legal expenses in this challenging economic e...
Jay Feinman of Rutgers University of Law exposes how insurance companies violate rules for handling claims in his new book,
Weeks after an Oregon jury handed down a punishing $5.5 million verdict in the first trial over medical devices called "pain p...