Superior Court Judge Peter P. Espinoza's decision Friday that Roman Polanski will have to show up in a courtroom here before h...

San Diego County District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis has lifted her unexplained boycott of Superior Court Judge John S. Einhorn.

Renewable energy company Enel North America Inc. called on Kaye Scholer partners Jeffrey Chester and Michael Fernhoff in Los A...

After freezing salaries early last year, Cooley Godward Kronish moved its associates up the lockstep compensation scale this y...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service agreed Friday to reconsider its 2003 decision to remove a fish native to the fragile Sacram...

A San Jose judge dismissed a trade secrets theft lawsuit between Santa Clara-based Applied Materials Inc. and a rival company ...

Latham & Watkins awarded bonuses Friday to a large chunk of its associates, with payouts ranging from $2,500 to $85,000. T...

Tesla Motors, Inc. has finalized its $465 million loan guarantee with the Department of Energy with the help of attorneys at W...

Betty Broderick, convicted in 1991 of murdering ex-husband and prominent San Diego attorney Dan Broderick and his new wife, Li...

California and 15 other states filed a motion Friday to intervene in an ongoing legal battle in hopes of helping the federal E...

A coalition of centrist Bay Area Democrat and Republican business owners calling itself Repair California believes the state's...

Two industry giants continue to battle in dispute over copyright infringement, but the war is arguably over, writes David Give...

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Peter Eliasberg, managing attorney of the ACLU, clarifies account of steps taken after learning of eyewitness report of fatal ...

Sonoma County Judge Gary Nadler presents an overview of the business exception to the hearsay rule.

Family law specialist Fred Silberberg says temporary legislation allowing spousal support modification upon emancipation of a...

Robert Jon Hendricks and Larry Lawrence of Morgan, Lewis & Bockius examine the California Supreme Court's decision to deny...

Emboldened by a recent 9th Circuit opinion, owners of trailer parks are increasingly challenging local government ordinances t...

A federal judge has dismissed two cases in which U.S. citizens claimed the government illegally conducted dragnet surveillance...

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...

Frank Partnoy, a professor of law and finance at the University of San Diego School of Law, hopes that his new Center for Corp...

The first lawyer to be arrested for scamming desperate homeowners seeking mortgage modifications was taken into custody early ...

Lawyers at San Francisco-based Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin helped client The Charles Schwab Corp. execute ...

Cisco reached a confidential settlement with John Ward Jr., the second of two lawyers who filed complaints over accusations po...

Direct purchaser plaintiffs in one of the major civil antitrust price fixing cases in the Northern District of California - in...

The remaining defendants in Rambus Inc.'s antitrust battle, Micron Technology Inc. and Hynix Semiconductor Inc., persuaded San...

Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona - free on bail as he appeals his conviction for obstruction of justice - wants to go ...

A 12-year-old middle school student filed a lawsuit Thursday against Los Angeles school administrators who allegedly sent the ...

Judge-turned-arbitrator Richard P. "Skip" Byrne traces his family's long history in the legal profession back to a bet his gr...

A Wells Fargo shareholder is going after company executives for hundreds of millions of dollars he alleges they wasted while a...