A special Supreme Court panel on judicial ethics has issed an opinion on what judges must do to put key statements "on the rec...

Gov. Jerry Brown on Friday fulfilled a promise to file suit against the Labor Department over the state's ability to modify wo...

Answering for the first time in the 9th Circuit a question that has split other circuits, a circuit panel on Friday ruled that...

David C. Lee, who was a key player in the Securities and Exchange Commission's legal department before joining Gibson, Dunn &a...

Settlements will bring more than $1 million into the estate's coffers ...

In a decision made public Friday, the bar court ruled that former Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Clinton E. Parish made ...

Fenwick & West LLP advised Mountain View-based app search engine Quixey Inc. in its hefty Series C financing round, led by...

Assured Guaranty, one of the city's major debt-holders, has tentatively agreed to a deal. ...

California's high-speed rail authority is hoping a state appellate court will give it something many project developers would ...

Attorney Joseph W. Cotchett tried Friday to convince a federal judge to look past several Supreme Court decisions exempting ba...

With 20 years on the bench under his belt, Justice Richard Aldrich shows no signs of slowing down.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Judge Charles 'Ben' Burch is quick to tell lawyers what he views to be the key issues in cases.

After months of anticipation, San Francisco-based micro blogging website Twitter Inc. finally unveiled the details of its plan...

Obama appoints Youth Law Center Executive Director Jennifer Rodriguez to the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect F...

Attorneys say Judge Randa Trapp doesn't form early 'intractable decisions' about cases she hears.

I think it's pretty safe to say that most of us didn't really know what we were doing when we first started out. By Bradley I....

Gregory B. Jordan is leaving the firm to join Pittsburgh, Pa.-based PNC Financial Services Group Inc. He'll be replaced by the...

President Obama appoints the center's executive director to the Commission to Eliminate Child Abuse and Neglect Fatalities ...

Just days before the trial of a central figure in one of the state's biggest municipal corruption scandals, the defendant Thur...

Greenberg Traurig LLP's East Palo Alto office hosted a presentation Thursday on privacy law by Federal Trade Commission attorn...

The Stanford Center for Law and the Biosciences brought together a panel of experts in the fields of neuroscience, biology, ps...

More than a hundred women gathered for tea at The Ritz-Carlton hotel in San Francisco Tuesday evening to hear Joyce M. Roche, ...

A retired Santa Clara County judge now at ADR Services Inc., Murphy wins praise as a mediator for methodically and calmly find...

The Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel hosted its 15th annual Charity Golf Classic and dinner...

Firm cut technology staff jobs in Los Angeles, becoming the latest law firm to trim its ranks. ...

Electronics giant and its outside counsel leaked confidential terms of licensing agreements Apple entered into with other comp...

The Legal Marketing Association's Bay Area Chapter held an in-house counsel summit in Palo Alto on Sept. 17. The event was a w...

Two former NBCUniversal Inc. lawyers have jumped to the Los Angeles office of Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman LLP, where...

The California Supreme Court Historical Society named Jonathan Mayer, a 2013 graduate of Stanford Law School, as the first-pla...