The future of many technology patents appeared uncertain Monday after the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to review an appellate cou...

The California Supreme Court wiped out a $1 billion judgment against Bank of America on Monday, giving the banking industry a ...

Elaborating on a 2002 decision to ban the death penalty for the mentally retarded, the U.S. Supreme Court held Monday that sta...

The interests of excess insurers often conflict with those of primary insurers and insureds, writes Shaun H. Crosner.

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

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Why does the government regulate consumer products like toothpaste, but not financial products like mortgages, asks Amelia War...

Obama's capitulation to his critics on Guantanamo will not only imperil the rule of law; it will actually make us more vulnera...

A panel of judges will decide whether Sacramento Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien broke rules of conduct by abrubtly ending ...

The sour economy has promoted a group of mostly small- and medium-sized transaction lawyers in San Diego to form a support gro...

A well-known San Jose criminal defense attorney who faces an array of misconduct accusations and federal charges has escaped d...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals seemed unlikely to win more appellate clout from the U.S. S...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judges are weighing whether to join court staff in a furlough. They are the only courthouse ...

Two Los Angeles-origin law firms and an investment firm are sponsoring an on-site daycare. Nicole Grannis Adrien, of Oaktree C...

The income partner position is one that allows firms to be flexible with talented people who need more accommodations than oth...

Art Shartis is at the helm of the 57-lawyer San Francisco firm Shartsis Friese. Shartsis, who co-founded the firm in 1975, ha...

A debate over the National Sequoia Forest has catapulted the U.S. Forest Service to the forefront of a new technology-driven s...

Munger, Tolles & Olson partner and civil rights veteran Vilma S. Martinez has been nominated as the ambassador to Argentin...

For defendants, giving a DNA sample is no different from providing a fingerprint or posing for a booking photo, a federal judg...

Shouting slogans and waving signs, hundreds of court workers rallied outside the California Supreme Court Thursday to protest ...

Prosecutors in a federal tax fraud and money laundering case involving the Spinka - a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Hasidic sect within...

JAMS mediator helps shape alternative dispute resolution by taking on oddball cases, volunteering at every turn and honing a s...

Companies that are the subject of civil actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission or other regulatory agencies would be ...

About 3,500 attorneys who work for the state lost a bid Thursday to get the courts to give them a pay raise. ...

Alameda County Superior Court has become the first in the state to conduct layoffs due to the state's budget crisis, with pink...

With its chief executive officer John Roos nominated for the U.S. ambassadorship to Japan, the Silicon Valley stalwart Wilson ...

Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has proven moderate on environmental issues, siding with both businesses and environment...

Labor lawyer Amy Messigian wonders: Do employers owe on-call workers pay for their off-duty responsibilities? ...

It had seemed settled in California that juveniles' most serious crimes could be used against them later as strikes. But a c...

A fierce prosecutor in his time, Harvey Giss is adjusting to the more passive role of judge. ...