The long line of litigants suing Countrywide Financial and its executives over the bank's subprime lending and mortgage resell...

For coverage purposes, it is the insured's burden to show by facts alleged in a complaint or other known facts that particular...

Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders will be making a foray into the California market with the acquisition of Ross, Dixon & Bel...

It is time for family law judges to stop excusing people simply because it is easier to do that than to enforce the court's or...

Parties in mediation settlement talks who decline to make an opening statement are missing out on a valuable opportunity, writ...

A San Francisco native and former police officer is taking over the top judicial spot on the Superior Court bench. ...

A San Francisco federal judge has ruled that an Abbott Laboratories patent for technology used in a blood-glucose measuring de...

A judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit that sought to overturn Special Order 40, a decades-old police policy that bars offi...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs may not be taking care of the country's former military personnel, but a federal judge...

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars states f...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro has pulled in Mike Corfield as partner to practice in business and real estate matters.

The video game industry may not be ready for top billing yet, but it's certainly turning heads. ...

Silicon Valley might be known as the cutting-edge, intellectual preperty hub, but it's the Los Angeles-based Central District ...

As the economy slides, litigation soars, from backdating to bankruptcy cases. ...

As the subprime lending crisis began claiming victims and the credit market tightened, phones of local banktruptcy lawyers beg...

Who says deals are drying up? Not Southern California's leading M&A lawyers. For them, business is better than ever, as th...

For managing partners at some of Southern California's law firms, the slumping real estate market signals a time to grow. ...

Two San Diego-based defense attorneys today plan to file a motion to dismiss a capital case on the grounds that confidential e...

One day last week, a jazz trio let loose before a rapt audience with an improvised performance of Jerome Kern's 1933 standard,...

Rather than pushing back the trial of the only lawyer indicted for hiring Anthony Pellicano, a federal judge simply eliminated...

Debates over the government's role in regulating market exchanges suffer from a highly limited understanding of the civil law ...

Web Exclusive - A federal judge in Riverside on Tuesday ordered a U.S. Marine into jail for 18 months for refusing to testify ...

How can a defense attorney screw up at the penalty phase of a client's capital case? ...

A recent federal court ruling may have wide-ranging implications for activist stockholders and the public companies they targe...

Former litigator Peter H. Kirwan sought appointment to the bench because he wanted time to raise his children. Now that he's m...

San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom's name has become synonymous with the effort to legalize gay marriage. ...

Can Cyrus Mark Sanai monkeywrench the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals? ...

Fred M. Greguras, formerly of counsel at Fenwick & West, starts at K & L Gates today as a partner in its corporate pr...

Taking up a closely watched clash between environmentalists and the military, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review c...

For nearly 20 years, Michael Zweiback represented the United States in federal court. But Monday marked the first day of the r...