The U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the third time this term, over an antitru...

Two legendary retired San Francisco homicide inspectors, one a former police chief, will remain the target of a civil rights s...

Attorneys trying to persuade a judge to award them lodestar fees should stress they used conservative billing practices and ma...

Latham & Watkins has hired a long-time U.S. Department of Justice attorney as a partner in the firm's Washington D.C. office.

A trial judge in Los Angeles went too far in trying to help movie-going wheelchair users, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...

Stanford Law School will unveil a first-of-its-kind online database today that tracks every patent lawsuit filed in the United...

Immigration officials were wrong to strip the immigrant choir director of a Los Angeles--area Korean Presbyterian church of hi...

A recent 9th Circuit decision illustrates that persuading the Court of Appeals to intercede in ongoing trial court proceedings...

A second defendant in the spring bombing of a federal court building and Federal Express distribution center in San Diego has ...

The dissolving Heller Ehrman found itself in more hot water last week when the landlord of its former San Francisco headquarte...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal nabbed a leading insurance regulatory lawyer to gear up for what the firm believes will be a...

The number of legal jobs declined for the sixth consecutive month in November and contributed to the largest monthly employmen...

In response to evidence that systematic, dehumanizing bias is at the heart of many crimes against homeless people, Congress sh...

A judge in Alameda has revised an earlier award in the closely watched Sprint early-termination fee telecom case and ruled tha...

Although many law firms are reeling from the ailing economy, the area of intellectual property appears to be thriving. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Friday to hear what will be the last of the major detainee cases arising from the Bush administ...

Centered on a 2005 Los Angeles criminal trial of a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's initial Senate campaign, Paul Mark Sandler...

Arent Fox is bringing on a bankruptcy attorney from Sheppard Mullin as a partner in the firm's Los Angeles office.

Bar Court Judge Richard A. Honn will help attorneys who exercise poor judgment, lawyers say, but he'll deal strongly with t...

In Judge Richard E. Rico's civil harassment court, getting an order against a jilted lover or a disgruntled employee requires...

Michael Ney, a civil defense lawyer in Walnut Creek, will be sworn in today as president of the San Francisco chapter of the A...

When former homicide prosecutor Mark S. Boessenecker took the bench, he got the family law docket. It's all new to him, but h...

Bank of the West General Counsel Vanessa Washington is helping to steer the company through a tumultuous time in the industry....

To provide a less expensive quality check on issued patents, Congress created the ex parte re-examination, a useful post-grant...

Seventy-five years ago, America ended its disastrous experiment with alcohol prohibition. Today, the country is still saddled ...

Richard S. Reisberg likens smart fishing to successful mediation. ...

A Superior Court judge has approved the largest-ever railroad liability verdict to a single plaintiff - a $48 million judgment...

Officials with the Department of Mental Health pledged Thursday to stop relying on police for emergency calls involving the me...

As part of a deal with 40 state attorneys general last month to cut down on listings for prostitution and sex-oriented service...

Seventy-five years ago, the states fully ratified the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, officially ending prohibition -...