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Norm Coleman does have a few legal options left in the Minnesota Senate race - whether they're likely to work is another story...

One of two bankruptcy judges tapped to deal with the Inland Empire's crushing caseload, Peter H. Carroll credits a chance semi...

Deep in the heart of Texas a group of federal judges built the nation's busiest - and most unlikely - patent court. Now forces...

Before he went in-house with the Giants, Jack Bair was a deputy city attorney in San Francisco and led the effort to prevent t...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case about the discretion federal judges have to award plaintiffs in civil righ...

Though the proposed 90 percent tax on AIG bonuses raises constitutional issues, courts aren't likely to block the plan, writes...

TroyGould attorney Jonathan Handel dissects the recent deal struck between ad agencies and the actors unions. ...

The attorney representing the plaintiffs on appeal in Benson v. Kwisket disagrees with an earlier characterization of the case...

A recent ruling is likely to increase use of a "reasonableness test" in flood damage cases, write Nossaman's Rick Rayl and Bra...

Terrestial radio remains the major holdout among those who believe U.S. artists and performers shouldn't be compensated for th...

After critics filed lawsuits demanding more transparency, the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative released information Mon...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge John Dearman - the longest-serving judge in the court's history - has retired after ...

A federal magistrate in Nevada ordered Liner Grode Stein Yankelevitz Sunshine Regenstreif & Taylor, as well as two lawyers...

With Los Angeles City Attorney's runoff race scheduled for May 19 and the local U.S. Attorney's office expected to change hand...

Amid public outrage over irresponsible bank practices that prompted huge government bailouts, the California Supreme Court wil...

Sacramento Commissioner Ana M. Bravo demands parties show deference to the court, no gum chewing, no sass, no emotional back-a...

David Cohen went to law school after nine years bouncing around minor league baseball as an athletic trainer. Cohen, now the t...

It seemed like big law firms were too big to fail. Over two decades of explosive growth, top law firms gobbled up regional sh...

The recession has already forced at least one firm to resort to the cost-cutting equivalent of cannibalism. ...

The 9th Circuit Friday ruled that a lawsuit claiming that big oil companies worked together to keep California gas prices high...

The president-elect of El Salvador's fledgling democracy must focus his government's resources on reforming the electoral syst...

The lead plaintiffs' lawyer in a civil rights lawsuit against the estate of late Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos denies c...

Beth S. Brinkmann, the Washington, D.C.-based chair of Morrison & Foerster's appellate group, announced last week she'll s...

Congress violated the First Amendment rights of people who used artistic works that had fallen into the public domain by passi...

"Pinch me. That would be the greatest job," Katie Pothier said when she first learned baseball teams hired in-house lawyers. I...

Alan T. Schroeder Jr., who at times represented himself during a 15-year-long divorce case, won a significant decision that co...

San Diego Commissioner Peter S. Doft makes music, climbs mountains, hikes the Grand Canyon and tries to make the roads safe fo...

Survivors of law firm layoffs still may not be safe. Many top law firms, realizing their first round of pink slips did not g...