Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has agreed to pay $9.5 million in hopes of ending a long-running probe of...

Corporate attorney Kurt Kicklighter has been elected managing partner of San Diego-based firm Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Sc...

The California Supreme Court’s approach to comparative juror analysis has vacillated from warm embrace to firm disapproval to ...

A recent appellate decision is of great importance and benefit to judgment creditors, write Jerome J. Blum and Allan Herzlich....

Practically no one in the United States is currently questioning the legality or propriety of U.S. military involvement in Afg...

A federal judge Monday denied MGA Entertainment's motion for a mistrial in the Bratz doll copyright infringement case, finding...

Web Exclusive - In a decision closely watched by Hollywood studios, a court Monday gave a green light to Cablevision Systems C...

A plea bargain is a plea bargain, even if it means the defendant gets deported, the California Supreme Court said Monday. ...

O'Melveny & Myers has opened an office in Singapore.

Miriam A. Vogel, who retired last month as a justice on the 2nd District Court of Appeal, starts the next phase of her career ...

A convicted murderer testifying at a hearing on his habeas corpus petition last week took a bizarre detour into the still-unso...

A lawyer for Mattel says a U.S. Supreme Court decision that jurors' remarks during deliberations cannot nullify a verdict trum...

A sharply divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the ex-wife of a slain police officer was e...

Reed Smith had been scouting out ways to open in Silicon Valley since 2003, when it merged with Oakland's Crosby, Heafey, Roac...

In practice and to create legal certainty, a product's warranty terms should make clear whose life is relevant and how 'lifeti...

MGA Entertainment has tapped well-known San Francisco litigators Jerome B. Falk Jr. and Douglas A. Winthrop to serve as appell...

In less than two years as a lawyer, Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker’s Abigail W. Lloyd has amassed an impressive caselo...

Andrea Hoch, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's legal affairs secretary, and her chief deputy, were part of a team that argued befor...

A federal judge overseeing litigation involving the painkillers Bextra and Celebrex on Friday ordered plaintiffs to submit inf...

Family Law Judge Wendy G. Getty forgoes the robe and bench to sit down with all the attorneys and parties for some candid disc...

Those who appear before her like the way Margaret Miller Bernal handles her job on Los Angeles County Superior Court. That inc...

Virginia-based Hunton & Williams has added nine partners from Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, including one Los Angele...

A former Orange County deputy public defender was sentenced Friday to 95 days in jail for stalking his former girlfriend and t...

For Georgina Torres Rizk, taking a seat on the Superior Court was the next step in a legal career that has spanned almost 35 y...

Before Orange County billionaire Henry Samueli can walk away from the Broadcom stock-options scandal with a large payment but ...

Clif Bar General Counsel Bruce Lymburn found a way to combine his love of business law and real estate law with an environment...

Julian B. Sapirstein decides if mentally ill patients in San Francisco are ready to return to society. ...

Insider Trading: The Next Market Scandal? ...

Under President Bush, immigration courts have been undermined by a judicial hiring process that delayed important work in orde...

Proponents of medical marijuana use received good news Thursday from the 4th District Court of Appeal, which ruled that federa...