Focus Column - By Darren Donnelly - The Supreme Court is again being asked to overturn a Federal Circuit rule guarding patents...

Businesses and disability rights advocates appear to have reached a long sought compromise over access laws expected to be pre...

Industry Watch - By Jill Redhage - Robert L. Ebe, West Coast leader of Bingham McCutchen's distribution and franchise group, j...

Mark Steven Williams has a history of running - jogging, perhaps - into trouble. The Menlo Park attorney is dangerously close ...

Web Exclusive - By Amy Yarbrough - Alameda County Superior Court Judge Julie Conger, a veteran bench officer and widely regard...

In an attempt to discredit the FBI's investigation of private eye Anthony Pellicano, defense attorneys on Friday probed the le...

Jerry Johnston makes things happen. The judge led an overhaul of an out-of-date mental health system at Orange County Superior...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

U.S. District Judge Manuel Real’s impartiality is under fire in an appeal to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after the j...

Benjamin Benedict Salvaty, 1940-2008, a zealous Notre Dame football fan who represented Cal Trans and the Atchison, Topeka and...

The federal judge in the Anthony Pellicano trial said Thursday that she is alarmed by a complex legal issue at the heart of th...

A 9th Circuit appeals panel currently reviewing San Francisco's universal health care effort batted down arguments Thursday th...

A school district in Tulare County will pay $4.5 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a first-grader who was s...

With four degrees and three careers, mediator Joan Kessler has settled in to make the best use of all of them. ...

A federal jury convicted the leader of a Long Beach-based revolutionary group Wednesday for crimes related to a failed attempt...

Employment Column - By Christopher J. Kunke - Employers should also carefully scrutinize the substantive conscionability (i.e....

A panel appointed by the California Senate has recommended that the Legislature require local governments and courts to issue ...

As part of a lawsuit against the National Arbitration Forum and a credit card company, San Francisco Judge Peter J. Busch has ...

One week after consumer advocates complained of inaction, state regulators announced Thursday that they will force three of th...

A key group of Heller Ehrman corporate attorneys in the firm's San Diego office are leaving for DLA Piper, Heller's managing p...

Forum Column - By John H. Sullivan - A recent 6th District decision dismissed longheld ideas about the necessity of impartiali...

Web Exclusive - By Amy Yarbrough - The chair of a bipartisan committee that recommends President Bush's judge picks in Norther...

A senior Securities and Exchange Commission attorney urged defense lawyers Thursday to be proactive if investigators come call...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Focus Column - By Gil Cabrera - San Diego's new disclosure requirements revolve around two key areas: who is a lobbyist and wh...

“This is the biggest mess I’ve seen the in city right now in which anyone has asked us to intervene in,” said Avis Ridley-Thom...

A powerful state union has forced the Judicial Council to slam the brakes on a legislative deal to beef up court security. ...

Focus Column - By Jay Folberg - Introducing deadlines into a negotiation is a way to create a perception of a vanishing oppor...

Forum Column - By Rick Seabolt - If the public judicial system is to flourish in the face of stiff ADR competition, the system...

A Sacramento judge has approved a contested settlement agreement compensating 800,000 Ford Explorer owners whose vehicles lost...