After a 4 ½ month trial, a state civil jury awarded $300 million in damages Monday to a Los Angeles venture capitalist who acc...

The Pirate Bay convictions helps reinforce the content industry's message that piracy is wrong, illegal and can come with real...

Judge Michele McKay McCoy tried being a librarian and a teacher but kept returning to her first love: the law. ...

A San Francisco federal jury returned a guilty verdict in the capital murder trial of 24-year-old Dennis Cyrus Jr. Monday afte...

David Shannon, a veteran of Silicon Valley tech companies, is embroiled is several high profile litigations. ...

San Ramon-based Chevron Corp. is quietly on the prowl for a new general counsel. It's not that the current head of its legal f...

The Association of American Medical Colleges is trying to make four aspiring medical students pay back $1.7 million in attorne...

The Justice Department has asked Congress to significantly boost funding for immigration enforcement along the Southwestern U....

The ability to address a potential pandemic in the workplace must be one of the many tools in an employer's arsenal, write Sus...

As welcome as the decision was, Steve Semeraro wonders if it really advances the cause of individual liberty and privacy inter...

Leadership is not something that you simply do. It is a skill that you have to learn, writes Kurt A. Schlichter. ...

With 3,700 positions cut, April marked the second-largest decline in legal services jobs since the recession began. Legal jobs...

As information about U.S.-sanctioned torture tactics come out, it is time to reassert our commitment to the rule of law, write...

Former California lawyer and legislator Louis E. Caldera resigned as head of the White House Military Office on Friday, citing...

Guy Halgren, the descendant of a lemon and olive farmer who once wanted to run a nursery, has presided over the robust growth ...

While cutting a summer program may save money in the short term, law firms should consider the long-term ramifications, writes...

In the last month, five children have been denied a review of their insurers' rejection of autism treatment coverage. The deni...

Feeling the recession's sting, San Francisco's biggest provider of pro bono legal aid announced Friday it would be instituting...

Say cheese, litigators. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wants to put cameras in federal trial courts. ...

Juan J. Dominguez pays handsomely to have his larger-than-life image plastered on the sides of public transit vehicles through...

Winston & Strawn lawyers detail an established body of federal law that recognizes and enforces international commercial a...

D. Gregory Valenza explains the responsibilities of employers during an outbreak like the swine flu. ...

As irksome, dubious - even downright unreadable - as spam advertising e-mail messages might be, they are not fraudulent, a Los...

In what a plaintiffs' lawyer called a rare judgment, a San Bernardino County Superior Court jury Thursday found that State Far...

An Irvine-based "foreclosure-prevention" law firm has sued two giant lenders for telling borrowers the firm is defrauding them...

Mill Valley-based mediator Charlotte M. Venner said she tries to help her clients reach closure in what can be the most diffic...

U.S. government attorneys argued in a federal court Thursday that five state investigations into the Bush administration's war...

Members of California's Hispanic legal community want to make sure President Barack Obama doesn't overlook their favorite cand...

An arbitrator has barred the foreclosure sale of an 82-unit, mixed-use, waterfront condominium development, citing the "imposs...

Object now or forever hold your peace. The California Supreme Court affirmed that long-standing maxim of good lawyering Thursd...