A retired Sacramento prosecutor accused of withholding evidence that could have helped exonerate a woman who spent 16 years in...

Many of the lawyers who worked on the last same-sex marriage case, along with several fresh faces, have jumped into the legal ...

A federal prosecutor lambasted a probation officer's recommendation that convicted attorney Terry N. Christensen receive proba...

A federal judge said he is struggling with Mattel's request to strip rival toymaker MGA Entertainment of rights to its success...

Jones Day's Irvine office lands a partner from Latham & Watkins.

Members of the U.S. Supreme Court hinted Monday they may look to California law to resolve a dispute over the right of defenda...

Although Prop. 8 is clearly a setback for the state Supreme Court, the damage done to the court’s authority will not be perman...

As individuals and groups continue to slough off of the dissolving firm, the lion's share of Thelen's utilities transactional ...

The nation’s first cyber-bullying MySpace case took an unexpected turn Monday when a federal judge said it is unlikely that he...

Over the objections of three justices, the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear an appeal from California concerning the...

The strengthened Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, with the support of the Obama administration, will likely expa...

More often than not, the jury system really does work; and the lawyers who understand why it works will inevitably do better t...

A federal judge on Monday signed off on a $2.5 million settlement to be paid by a Los Angeles law firm accused of mishandling ...

Foley & Lardner has taken on three more former Heller Ehrman attorneys.

Terry O'Reilly, left, and Michael S. Danko have built a career winning aircraft-related liability suits. "I'm not one to blow ...

Lawyers interested in launching legal nonprofits aren't likely to snare big bucks from big foundations - which want to see a p...

Stan Levy helped establish three of Los Angeles's biggest nonprofit legal organizations. Now he heads up the pro bono activiti...

Betty Nordwind has a terse maxim ready for attorneys thinking about starting their own legal organizations. "Not every good id...

American car manufacturers have at long last improved the quality of their products, but given the worsening state of the econ...

A straight-talking Rhodes scholar, William McCurine Jr. is known for his compassion. ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Federal public defender John L. Littrell never aspired to see his name in lights.

The state Supreme Court's 'Crawford' ruling does not establish an immediate duty to provide a defense regardless of the langua...

The 9th Circuit rejected an argument by the owners of the Play Pen, an East Los Angeles strip club, and sided with the makers ...

McDermott Will & Emery has snatched up the former Menlo Park office space of dissolving Heller Ehrman, relieving the San F...

The new law banning texting while driving should give all of us plenty of time to experience what life used to be like before ...

Civil rights attorney William K. Coblentz has over the past 50-some years supported efforts of the NAACP, American Civil Liber...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that could dramatically affect the right of defendants to cross-exa...

Makers of brand-name pharmaceuticals can be sued for failing to warn of a drug's dangers, even when it was the generic version...

Santa Clara crime lab problems led to system improvements.