Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker laid off 44 associates and 87 staff in its U.S. offices Tuesday, including some in its o...

Insurers should not be allowed to ignore the realities of the industry - including how words are used within that industry. ...

Richard D. Ackerman has given longtime colleagues and friends whiplashes with his seemingly abrupt left-view support of the st...

In one of the largest settlements of its kind, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has agreed to pay creditors of a bankrupt elect...

When Ventura County Judge Frederick H. Bysshe Jr. imposed a permanent gang injunction in the community, he made sure it ha...

If octogenarian lawyers are not supposed to play solo, outraged crusading litigators, no one has bothered to tell Lynn S. Carm...

When longtime civil law attorney David Cena took the bench 14 years ago, he was assigned to a criminal court, an area he scram...

Francis T. Fahy is learning a hard lesson about the importance of jury duty. The San Francisco attorney finds himself dangerou...

Companies that offer opportunities for others to start a business, work at home or earn an easy income should be alert to the ...

What's a legal aid group doing in the software business? Plenty, columnist Martin Berg discovers. ...

In a loss for civil rights advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in a 5-4 decision Monday that there are limits to a provisi...

Companies must mind the shop and ensure that their online marketing efforts and their data practices are maintained legally. ...

When it comes to dealing with sexually violent predators, the district attorney's office must follow the law as it is, not as ...

The entertainment industry might end shutting down The Pirate Bay Web site, but in doing so it will help romanticize anti-esta...

Bay Area lawyers Roderick and Gregory Walston might be the first father-son pair to win reversals before the 1st District Cour...

The California Supreme Court on Monday sided with state officials in a decades-long battle with insurance companies over who s...

On the heels of last week's stabbing of a judge in a Stockton courtroom by a murder defendant, judges and court officials acro...

If policy changes are what caused our prisons to become overburdened and dangerous, policy changes are what can fix them. ...

Andrew Giacomini has brought a playful touch to Hanson Bridgett since becoming the 51-year-old firm’s managing partner in 2001...

The Kindle 2 is as close to a perfect e-reader as anyone has gotten yet. ...

In the current economy, the best strategy is less about building an image or branding a firm and more about creating relations...

A San Francisco federal judge heard arguments Friday in a case that pits national security interests during wartime against th...

More competent, experienced attorneys are likely to turn to contract work. ...

The Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act has caused endless confusion and angst for large and small businesses alike. ...

Basic, one-to-one interactions are at the heart of successful networking. ...

The State Bar’s Board of Governors resoundingly approved on Friday two much-discussed measures that would narrow options for a...

More legal workers across the nation lost their jobs during February than in any month since the recession began, according to...

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

Judge Marta S. Diaz works tirelessly to help delinquents and abused youth, but she takes no guff from juvenile offenders who d...

California's Supreme Court justices weighed in on the epic statewide legal battle over gay rights Thursday by indicating they ...