The Sacramento chapter of the Urban Land Institute honored Best Best & Krieger LLP of counsel Joseph E. Coomes Jr. last mo...

An Oakland federal judge said Thursday there was a "pretty strong possibility" that she would issue an injunction against an o...

The Encinitas Union School District program, the parents argued, was rooted in Eastern religion and thereby violated the Estab...

Relying upon a slate of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases over the patent eligibility of naturally occurring phenomena, a federa...

Outgoing Fair Political Practices Commission Chairwoman Ann Ravel was sworn in as the newest member of the six-person Federal ...

Toyota Motor Corp.'s driver error theory for sudden acceleration in its vehicles comes under scrutiny after juries in Los Ange...

During a panel at Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hamptons LLP's Palo Alto office on Oct. 24, gamification experts Steve Sims ...

Attorneys gathered at the Bar Association of San Francisco on Oct. 25 for the annual Attorney Fees Conference, put on by the N...

The civil rights group Disability Rights Advocates celebrated the 20th anniversary of its founding with a gala dinner at the P...

Lizbeth Hasse founded Creative Industry Law shortly after helping draft the Russian Federation's first copyright law since the...

Egil "Bud" Krogh Jr., who was imprisoned for orchestrating a break-in to gather information on the Pentagon Papers leaker, beg...

Sounds like the start of a bad joke, but unless the lawyer who assists them takes a disciplined approach, he won't be the one ...

San Francisco civil judges Richard A. Kramer, Curtis E.A. Karnow and Marla J. Miller have thrown their hats in the ring, accor...

Fantex Holdings is offering the public a chance to trade shares tied to the future "brand value" of prominent professional ath...

In a filing last week seeking to dismiss a civil action brought by the CFPB in federal court, attorneys for debt relief servic...

Federal securities laws are changing in a manner not seen in almost 80 years. By Julie A. Ryan and Robert R. Rugani

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

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Peter Lind Shaw is presiding over an unusual hearing involving pirates on the high seas, one of a wide variety of cases he han...

Legal Counsel, Association of Bay Area Governments Oakland ...

This year has seen several important developments that will impact those seeking EB-5 visas. By David Hirson and Nima Korpivaa...

Commercial arbitration will 'never be perfect,' but the system can indeed provide a speedy, cost-effective alternative to trad...

An intellectual property panel at this week's Association of Corporate Counsel conference in Los Angeles sought to look at the...

Jill B. Easter will serve at least 60 days in jail for planting drugs on a school volunteer. Her husband, a former Stradling Y...

Experts, however, worry Pro-Se-Litigation.com could inadvertently put lawyers at risk for liability or conflict because it she...

TransPerfect Global Inc. is seeking to bar the sale of rival MotionPoint Corp.'s services that were found to infringe its lang...

This kind of question and many similar food labeling issues are increasingly on the desks of federal judges and mediators. By ...

The revelation of ongoing merger talks between Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a plea deal approved by a San Francisco federal judge of a sex offender's se...

The 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno rejected Kathleen Otto's appeal seeking to avoid liability in the verdict against h...