Industry Watch - By Rebecca U. Cho - Chicago-based McDermott Will & Emery continued its Silicon Valley growth spurt with t...

Focus Column - By Ken Moscaret - The best attorney for a job is not always the cheapest one, but proving that in court require...

Ten years ago, hiring an appellate specialist before a trial was over was almost unheard of. But as the field has evolved, app...

After a bruising last term that saw the justices clash on abortion, race and a host of other issues, the high court kicks off ...

At three of California's largest and most prominent technology companies, it is suddenly tough to tell the general counsel wit...

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After a first career as an educator, Judge Raima H. Ballinger makes sure to keep jurors, and herself, well-informed. ...

The newest president of the California Judges Association is no big-city jurist. He's Ira Kaufman of Plumas County, which has ...

ANAHEIM - A controversial proposal to require California lawyers to disclose whether they have malpractice insurance stalled w...

Employment Column - By John Weiss - Breaking the conventional rules of negotiation, attendance and briefing in employment medi...

The Public-education entities agreed to fund the creation of a special-needs day class at the California School for the Deaf a...

Forum Column - By Michael Willemsen - A ballot initiative that would award California's electoral votes proportionately has on...

Focus Column - By Laurie L. Levenson - How can O.J. Simpson be charged with kidnapping when he never removed the alleged victi...

Always negotiating, Steve Mehta couldn't imagine himself as anything but a mediator. At 39, Mehta is Judicate West's youngest ...

Forum Column - By William Gwire - In-house counsel that want to control costs through litigation guidlines should take a cue f...

LOS ANGELES - A teenage beauty queen who was badly injured in a car crash will receive $9 million under a settlement with the ...

Five years ago, a federal appellate court blocked a spate of plaintiffs from suing Big Tobacco on the grounds that the sick sm...

LOS ANGELES - A total of 76 shareholder class actions were filed in the first half of the year, according to a new study that ...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday shielded the deep pockets of big law firms from stale malpractice claims. ...

For the few California law firms that have figured out how to navigate the bureaucratic red tape, the practice of affordable-h...

SACRAMENTO - Bloggers have become a fixture in national politics, as commonplace as BlackBerrys and lobbyists. Increasingly, t...

Reversing a lower court's grant of summary judgment, a federal appeals court ruled Wednesday that a former employee's wrongful...

Focus Column - By Catherine W. Johnson and Michele Heffes - New regulations intended to promote greater transparency in envir...

Real Estate Column - By Robert C. Barnes - A downturn in housing markets makes this a ripe time for buyers looking to make sav...

A judge declared a mistrial in the Los Angeles murder trial of rock 'n' roll producer Phil Spector on Wednesday after jurors r...

SAN FRANCISCO - Marina H. Park, former managing partner of Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman's Silicon Valley office and overall...

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration may want retroactive immunity for telephone companies that participated in its secret wir...

Lawrence Lessig, a Stanford law professor and one of the nation's most prominent intellectual property experts, explains his d...

SAN FRANCISCO - A federal court jury in San Francisco Tuesday awarded $30.5 million to a small Silicon Valley company in a tra...