It may come as a surprise to some that Great Britain, the land where common law originated, did not have a Supreme Court befor...

The lawsuit is the latest move in an ongoing dispute over a series of loans the production company used to buy the rights to t...

A California trading card company is facing allegations from its estranged Japan-based business partner that its top executive...

Deputy district attorney Angela Sonico lays out the rules governing attorney voir dire in jury trials. ...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer discusses his visit to London for the opening of the United Kingdom's Supreme Co...

Defense attorneys for Broadcom's former chief financial officer begin their case Tuesday at his criminal trial for stock optio...

Pillsbury Winthrop chair James Rishwain spends his weekdays on the road, rotating between the firm's 14 offices as he guides t...

Frederic Grannis and Jeffrey Ikejiri of Sedgwick Detert present a counter argument under Elsner v. Uveges for workplace incide...

A federal judge awarded lawyers from Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and McKool Smith about $6.5 million in fees and expenses as...

Superior Court Referee Terry T. Truong cherishes the help her family received after emigrating to the U.S.

Governor Names Lawyers to State Posts

Carolyn M. Caietti was fresh out of law school when a trial was dropped in her lap

Activists have long clashed with Central Valley farmers over the imperiled delta smelt. But as the crisis deepens, those tradi...

Judge David C. Brougham of Los Angeles County has a quiet, studious demeanor that makes him more than just another proseuctor...

Money will go to California utilities and companies to help extend efforts to modernize the country's aging electric transmiss...

Allan Haley of Monotype Imaging says many companies do not realize that fonts are intellectual property that require software ...

Several law firms that took on Thelen partners as the firm dissolved last year won't have to pay former employees for alleged ...

John McLachlan of Fisher & Phillips explains why a solid orientation program remains essential during this economy. ...

Rep. Dan Lungren is a model Republican. But his experience as a lawyer has informed some of his forays off the standard GOP pa...

Attorney Caleb P. Leys says if more predatory lending lawsuits were filed, lenders would think twice before extending inapprop...

Neutral Richard M. Silver said he changes his style according to the nature of the dispute. ...

Kurt A. Schlichter of Schlichter & Shonack believes that the Code of Civil Procedure is far from perfect and proposes seve...

Judge David Lampe, founding director of the Alliance of California Judges says allotting all reserved capital for facility pro...

The American Board of Trial Advocates has brought in JAMS, San Francisco County's presiding judge and several law firms to tea...

A declaration filed in lawsuit against McAfee lays out former general counsel Kent Roberts' version of the company's stock opt...

In an unprecedented move, the Obama administration wants the 9th Circuit to reconsider a key evidentiary ruling in the basebal...

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

California death row inmate Kevin Cooper's lengthy effort to establish his innocence in the brutal massacre of a family in Chi...

The Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services Turkey Drive got a helping hand from McDonough Holland & Allen. Attorneys h...

An executive order issued by President Obama to crack down on fraud, waste and abuse in federal programs may raise a jurisdict...