U.S. District Judge William Alsup of San Francisco sentenced Emile Fort, who was one of the first defendants to face a death p...

After five budget-related ballot measures went down in flames on Tuesday, district attorney's offices throughout the state sai...

Part of the stimulus bill provides for a federal subsidy covering 65 percent of the COBRA premium for certain people who are e...

Columnist Martin Berg writes about Keith Rohman, a private investigator who has worked a wide beat, from death penalty cases a...

With its newly unveiled emissions restrictions, the Obama administration proved it's serious about environmental policymaking ...

California lawyers are being categorically denied bar admission in other states because of segregationist licensing rules, wri...

Attorneys representing an ex-Marine who served 24 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit want to use the grand jury's f...

The California justice community abhors closing the state's courts. But with $245 million in budget cuts on the table, the var...

Santa Clara County Counsel Ann Ravel will reportedly oversee the U.S. Justice Department's civil division torts branch and the...

Trial lawyer Pierce O'Donnell pleaded no contest to state court allegations that he made illegal campaign contributions to Jam...

President Barack Obama broke sharply from Bush administration policy Wednesday by announcing his administration will not insis...

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

The number of people representing themselves has jumped around the Bay Area as foreclosures swamp the region. ...

Firms of all sizes report they're scaling back the budgets of summer associate programs. Most strikingly, the virtual guarante...

Soon-to-retire Justice David H. Souter quietly repudiated the judicial views of one of the female judges some believe should r...

President Barack Obama may have steered California and the auto industry off their legal collision course Tuesday by announcin...

Responding to a wave of financial fraud cases, Congress has passed bipartisan legislation giving homeowners, investors and fed...

For the second time in two months, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled Tuesday that banking giant JP Morgan Chase ...

Current federal trademark law does a relatively poor job of addressing the issue of keyword advertising, write Rami S. Yanni a...

Proposals for a new state constitutional convention would enable the electorate to achieve change in one fell swoop, writes St...

A lawyer for billionaire Kirk Kerkorian in a renewed child-support dispute with his ex-wife has been disqualified from the cas...

After Monday's ruling in Ashcroft v. Iqbal, the standard for addressing the adequacy of a complaint got a lot more comp...

Jumping ahead of similar proposals by the state Administrative Office of the Courts, Los Angeles County Superior Court officia...

Counsel should carefully monitor a client's trademark portfolio to ensure that no misstatements were made to the Patent and Tr...

A recent ruling significantly impacts corporations that sue former employees and competitors for misappropriation of trade sec...

Eastern District U.S. Magistrate Judge Edmund F. Brennan returned to the court three years ago, after about 20 years in the U....

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

Consumer class-action lawsuits are alive and well in California after a 4-3 decision Monday from the state Supreme Court, writ...

USC Gould School of Law professor Jean Rosenbluth offers tips on writing. ...