SAN FRANCISCO - State prison officials have been asked to halt court-ordered mental health screening on death row while defen...

SAN JOSE - Hundreds of Santa Clara County court employees walked off their jobs Monday, effectively shutting down the legal sy...

Focus Column - Administrative Law - By Stuart Miller - Galbraith overturned a longstanding principle requiring a "heigh...

WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court on Monday announced that it again will delve into the knotty issue of campaign finance, looking...

WASHINGTON - In 1995, Michael J. Hason, a New York doctor who now lives in Florida, applied for a license to practice medicine...

A team of attorneys led by Howard C. Bunsow, partner with the San Francisco office of Howrey, Simon, Arnold, & White, won ...

Jerry Spolter, formerly of the American Arbitration Association, joined the San Francisco office of alternative dispute provi...

Arnold & Porter has dipped into the United Kingdom Medicines Control Agency for its latest lateral hire in London. Dr. Li...

Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley has hired intellectual property partner James C. Potepan and two associates from Pasadena'...

Mountain View's General Counsel Associates has promoted one attorney to partner and hired another from outside the firm. The ...

Oxnard's Nordman, Cormany, Hair & Compton has launched a general counsel services group to help small and medium-size bus...

A felon who turned his life around and became a top salesman at a Ford dealership in Huntington Beach has won $130,000 in a wh...

Mediator Network, a subsidiary of Consolidated Legal Concepts Inc., and Mosten Mediation Centers Inc. merged Oct. 1 to create ...

By Eron Ben-Yehuda Los Angeles attorney Gregory G. Gorman is beat, even though he recently won a $2.1 million jury verdict aga...

It looks like former baseball star Steve Garvey is going to hit a home run in a false advertising case that the Federal Trade ...

Borland Software Corp. of Scotts Valley has agreed to buy the privately held software company TogetherSoft Corp. for $185 mill...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Keith L. Groneman, who handles preliminary hearings at the Airport Courthouse, has an...

Despite winning $7 million in punitive damages earlier this month, veteran Sacramento trial lawyer Edward Freidberg is vexed b...

San Francisco's Hanson, Bridgett, Marcus, Vlahos & Rudy has a substantial health care practice with 15 lawyers focusing ex...

Michelle Lee Flores has joined Greenberg Traurig where she will be a member of the firm's labor and employment practice. The ...

Christopher Harnett, formerly a name partner with Oakland's Strickland, Haapala, Altura, Harnett & Thompson, has joined W...

Charlie Read has rejoined Los Angeles' O'Melveny & Myers after a three-year stint working with Steptoe & Johnson's ene...

VersusLaw Inc. introduced a new line of legal research tools Oct. 29. A user can choose between three different subscription ...

The Women Lawyers of Alameda County honored Herma Hill Kay, the first female dean of Boalt Hall, with its lifetime achievemen...

Although biotechnology work has dropped off measurably since the late 1990s, it remains a robust practice, according to Fenwic...

With 13,000 members and 43 local chapters across the United States and abroad, the American Corporate Counsel Association is t...

In what is being hailed as an unprecedented victory for part-time employees in California, 6,000 current and former United Par...

Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy elevated Sally Agel to partner, the firm announced Nov. 5. Agel has been at Milbank Tweed...

Voters elected three veteran criminal prosecutors and a State Bar judge to the Los Angeles County Superior Court bench on Nov...

The state of California has something waiting for all the businesses out there. More regulations. Spurred by the uproar over t...