Using an increasingly popular tactic in employment law, a spurned Silicon Valley executive complained that former employers N...

Inmates released under a 2012 voter initiative to soften California's three-strikes law have dramatically lower recidivism rat...

The trusts and estates litigators at Sacks, Glazier, Franklin & Lodise say the complicated, sometimes emotional nature of ...

The first time Lee Jay Berman mediated a settlement, it was between two sisters in their 80s who had not exchanged a word in 2...

As lawsuits over General Motors Co.'s ignition problems pour in, speculation about whether the automaker will be protected by ...

A recent case tests whether a hiring bonus based on a book of business built during marriage is divisible upon divorce. By Mit...

In the most important business case of the state Supreme Court term so far, the justices seemed poised to reverse its earlier ...

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

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

The pharmaceutical industry, hoping to stop a novel drug take-back program in Alameda County, is pinning its hopes on a case p...

Chief Legal Officer and Corporate Secretary for Sprouts Farmers Market Inc. Phoenix ...

While there can be no question that the private enforcement is important, there can also be no question that one statute has l...

The low level of mental competence required for marriage has made this a fertile field for a new form of financial elder abuse...

David Sive is dead - the boy from Brooklyn who helped shape the environment of his country and through it, the world. By Nicho...

A former firm managing partner and four former executive committee members were among those to announce their plans to leave t...

A pair of low-ranked California law schools are taking contrary approaches to tackle the problems of high tuition and unfair "...

The U.S. market for initial public offerings so far this year was more active than any opening quarter since 2000, according t...

James H. Frank sat on nearly 50 panels in the course of his 15 years as a FINRA arbitrator, but parties must file a motion to ...

Alan Jackson, whose 2012 bid for Los Angeles County's top prosecutor spot fell short, moved to Brown White & Newhouse LLP ...

The combination brings together Donahue Gallagher Woods LLP, which was founded in 1918, and Fitzgerald Abbott & Beardsley ...

The problem is that many supporters of crowdfunding refuse to acknowledge that the so-called "New Economy" is still governed b...

Of 22 law firm mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. in the first quarter of 2014, more than 80 percent involved small firms jo...

On Monday, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in CLS Bank, a case that could decide the extent to which software can...

Morrison & Foerster LLP partner and legal titan James J. Brosnahan will defend a former San Francisco school board preside...

A suspended California lawyer was sentenced to ten years in federal prison Wednesday for money laundering. ...

In the case, the plaintiff claims his one-time employer is trying to dodge responsibilities for its civil rights violations by...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

Attorneys are undermining the testimony of expert witnesses by conducting simple Google searches. ...

The New York-based firm expanded in the Bay Area on Monday with hire of lawyers from Hake Law, an eight-attorney litigation bo...