In its first major decision of the term, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday that federal law does not prevent plaintiffs from...

The Sierra Club’s current leadership scored a victory Monday when the California Supreme Court ended a long-running power stru...

Sexual violence is pervasive throughout U.S. prisons — and no one is harder hit than inmates who identify as LGBT, writes Lovi...

Ricardo A. Torres, who overhauled the Los Angeles courts' administrative system, is nearly two decades later hearing long-...

In light of Proposition 8, employers should re-examine domestic partner benefit policies now that such partnerships are the on...

Disgraced former private investigator to the stars Anthony Pellicano was sentenced to 15 years in federal prison Monday for ru...

Cooper, White & Cooper promoted Vijay K. Toke to partner in its San Francisco office.

If courtroom theatrics and chest-thumping arrogance are what you look for in a judge, 4th District Court of Appeal Associate J...

In motions, MGA lawyers said U.S. District Judge Stephen G. Larson's rulings raise "serious" and "novel" legal questions that ...

Riverside County District Attorney Rod Pacheco testified Friday in federal court in San Francisco that a proposal to reduce th...

Lawrence Lessig, the Stanford Law School professor and expert on cyberlaw who recently began researching the corrupting influe...

Ever since Ropes & Gray established its San Francisco office in 2001, the 30-plus-attorney outpost of the Boston-based fir...

Once the channels of communication have been severed by the filing of a lawsuit, parties begin to make up “what really happene...

Recent laws point to a paradigm shift for chemical regulation whereby chemical risks are analyzed in advance of exposure in an...

A skilled lawyer knows how to transform jurors from passive observers into active advocates who will lobby for his or her side...

As disgraced ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano faces his sentencing today , significant differences have emerged betwe...

Victor J. Gold had been serving as interim dean since January, when David W. Burcham left the post to become executive vice pr...

Lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman in San Francisco filed suit against a Shas...

Life is now dramatically different for Molloy. As a successful probate attorney a decade ago, he lived in a 7,000-square-foot ...

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real's colleagues have dismissed misconduct charges against him following a lengthy probe into h...

The Orange County Women Lawyers Association named Newport Beach-based attorney Teal W. Anderson to the organization's board of...

Pittsburg city officials Friday broke ground at the site of Contra Costa County Superior Court’s new courthouse at Railroad Av...

Wilfred J. Schneider Jr. says the death of his wife opened his eyes to the importance of family ties. As a judge, he says, he ...

A prosecutor has sued the Association of Deputy District Attorneys, alleging that the bargaining representative for the county...

Javade Chaudhri is general counsel of Sempra Energy, a Fortune 500 energy services company based in San Diego. With revenues o...

Harry L. Powazek, the son of Siberian labor camp survivors, ascended to San Diego County's bench. ...

The faculty at USC's Gould School of Law approved an adjustment to the grading scale on Thursday that will raise the average g...

Citing federal exemption statutes, a judge has denied a Palm Springs airline ground worker's claims that she was deprived of h...

One footnote to the 2008 presidential election will be the contention that neither of the candidates was eligible for the offi...

Michael Ornstil, who started mediation as a gamble, is still willing to go out on a limb. ...