Here is a list of the 20 largest Northern California law firms.

Several members of the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday appeared to support a possible finding that the Constitution requires judges...

Once people start using a trademarked product as a verb (think Rollerblade, Xerox, Google), the owner of the mark has a hard t...

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is a bright, potential-filled law firm associate.

Expect the Obama administration to aggressively challenge settlements between producers of generic and brand-name drugs.

Courts have consistently turned a blind eye to false police testimony, believing the ends (a conviction) justify the means (ly...

Heller’s collapse last year highlights how quickly a firm can tumble once it is destabilized and how little flexibility it can...

Sonya Winner, lawyer at Covington and Burlingon, is defending the San Francisco 49ers from a legal challenge to the team's pat...

As state judicial elections take center stage before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, the judiciary in California is quietly pu...

Under Obama, insurance companies could be in danger of losing the antitrust exemption they've had for almost 60 years.

One expense that shouldn't be slashed in today's recession is registering a copyright as soon as a work is created.

Columnist Martin Berg takes a look at the "low bono" phenomenon, with a Compton legal non-profit that is helping an underserve...

A high court ruling against Good Samaritans encourages people to mind their own business rather than attempt to help someone i...

As Los Angeles voters readied to go to the polls today, the race for city attorney heated up Monday with the three top candida...

Thanks to the 9th Circuit, a law against selling violent video games to minors met its death.

Longtime Morrison & Foerster entertainment partner Daniel McIntosh has jumped to Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & N...

President Barack Obama's Department of Justice has reversed the Bush Administration's legal strategy in a federal death penalt...

A convicted rapist's argument that he has a constitutional right to review DNA evidence met with a mixed reception before the ...

Philadelphia law firm Blank Rome opened for business in Los Angeles on Monday with a new office headed by former partners from...

Marijuana is just the type of green that Sacramento needs.

Riverside County courts dismiss more criminal cases than any other in the state for missing trial deadlines.

San Francisco-based attorney James C. Sturdevant worries that class action lawsuits could be severely restricted if the Califo...

Despite written orders from a pair of the most prominent jurists on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the federal governm...

In a case closely watched by government and labor lawyers statewide, a Los Angeles Superior Court judge threw out a lawsuit cl...

Luce Forward laid out last year an ambitious agenda for expansion across the state. Now managing partner Kurt L. Kicklighter i...

The 5th Circuit Judicial Council's inept handling of a misconduct case is a shining example of what not to do.

The courtroom was packed, and attorneys dressed in their best suits argued passionately about arson, free speech and other hot...

Barry Bonds walked thousands of times in his baseball career, and he may do it again - out of the courtroom.

A federal judge has ruled that Activision Publishing Inc., the Santa Monica-based maker of the popular "Guitar Hero" video gam...

The Los Angeles-based Latham & Watkins, which laid off 190 associates and 250 staff members, is often viewed as an industr...