Focus Column - By Susan Eandi, Ute Krudewagen and Jonathan Isaacs - New legal standards for employees in China will dramatical...

A federal judge ruled the lawyers who represented Qualcomm cannot use information protected by attorney-client obligations to ...

Forum Column - By Deborah Ben-Canaan and Amy Savage - An attorney's final days in the office can make the difference between f...

LOS ANGELES - In their work on banana plantations in Nicaragua, 12 men were not exposed to enough of a toxic pesticide to caus...

Forum Column - By Linda F. Atcherley - Three years after Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's reforms to workers' compensation in Cali...

SAN FRANCISCO - Goodwin Procter snagged a leader of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati's fund services practice along with t...

After spending the entirety of his 14-year career at Shearman & Sterling, securities litigator Bruce B. Kelson says he loo...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration's hopes of using military satellites for domestic law enforcement have hit an unlikely ob...

If you're sailing the Web in search of a good domain name, steer clear of the bays. EBay, the world's best-known online auctio...

LOS ANGELES - A former Los Angeles police detective indicted in the Anthony Pellicano case is being sued for framing a man in ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Thirteen new judges will soon take the bench throughout the state, many of them in counties that are most in n...

A model of efficiency, Judge Stephen M. Hall has worked to improve the calendaring and strengthen the court's relationship w...

SAN DIEGO - Two court reporters sued the Superior Court system in San Diego on Tuesday, saying officials illegally halted thei...

Forum Column - By Fred Silberberg - Although family courts may be more consequential to the moral stability of society than an...

Focus Column - By Glenn Dickinson - Although the Internet has come into its own as a vehicle for commerce, many of the laws su...

Forum Column - By Richard M. Coleman - The "Musings of a Discovery Referee" series continues, with a look at which documents c...

SANTA ROSA - In session Tuesday before hundreds of Sonoma County secondary-school students, the California Supreme Court took ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Environmentalists, joined by Attorney General Jerry Brown, today are expected to formally ask federal regulato...

September showed some signs of life in the mergers and acquisitions realm, nearly doubling the total receipts from a sluggish ...

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

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge in San Francisco Monday extended a temporary restraining order blocking a Department of Homela...

LOS ANGELES - Banana plantation workers on three of Dole Food's farms in Nicaragua were not told to stay away from areas treat...

WASHINGTON - Three years after invalidating the mandatory nature of the federal sentencing guidelines, the U.S. Supreme Court ...

To hear it from judges, lawyers and academics, Scott Schools has done everything right as the temporary leader of the San Fran...

SAN FRANCISCO - Embattled Riverside County Judge Robert G. Spitzer was taken off the bench in the middle of jury selection Tue...

If you accidentally come into possession of your adversary's documents, what's the proper course of action? That question is ...

WASHINGTON - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday decided not to get involved in two California disputes about religious speech, r...

SAN FRANCISCO - With the addition of 14 attorneys to its West Coast corporate and securities practice in 2007, including three...

Web Exclusive - The Department of Homeland Security lost its bid Monday to enforce a law requiring employers to fire workers ...

In addition to his work as a judge, Robert H. Oliver finds time to serve several legal and community organizations. ...