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...

A good number of lawyers are addicted to law and motion, writes Nora Quinn. - Forum Column ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday sidestepped a fight over the border fence between the United States and Mexico, rejecting an app...

Sometimes you need to try more than one approach to simplifying material you present to a jury, writes G. Chritopher Ritter. -...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski, currently the target of a judicial misconduct investigation, recused himself Monday from a miscondu...

Insureds doing business throughout the world should be aware of the unique risks presented by the newest weapon in the activis...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a California case to decide whether AT&T Corp. violated federal civil right...

The U.S. Supreme Court added five other new cases to its docket Monday, on the following issues: ...

Ryan H. Rainey once was a star federal prosecutor who handled child abuse cases and investigated civil rights violations withi...

A conservative public interest law firm in Sacramento is getting a million dollars richer at the expense of the city of San Fr...

Federal prosecutors announced a surprising deal Monday in which Henry Samueli, the billionaire Broadcom co-founder, admitted t...

Arnold & Porter has nabbed Beth Parker as a partner in its San Francisco office. Parker, who was previously a partner at B...

Bingham McCutchen is tempering a perpetual problem for its clients - escalating legal fees - by rejiggering an old solution: h...

Proceedings in the so-called "Bratz vs. Barbie" trial looked more like a CSI episode than a fight between two dolls Friday. ...

News organizations must be prepared to assert their editorial independence, and defend it, even at the cost of alienating a se...

Patient dumping is a dangerous and disgraceful but predictable accompaniment to the "market-driven" health care system in the ...

A group of strippers has filed suit against 19 of Los Angeles' largest gentlemen's clubs for what their lawyer is calling the ...

Climate change is spawning new rules and regulations, as well as the inevitable threat of litigation - and it is carving out n...

A recent 9th Circuit decision has potentially made laying off public employees a daunting task, write Richard C. Bolanos and C...

Looming state budget cuts that could dissuade doctors and pharmacists from treating the poor and elderly will face their first...

Nearly everybody in the Southern California mediation community knows the face of mediator Geoff Sharp but not too many have m...