A trial court judge agreed to receive further briefing in regards to a $20 million malpractice suit against Proskauer Rose LLP...

Willie Brown Jr., the former speaker of the state Assembly and mayor of San Francisco, gave members of the State Bar Board of ...

San Francisco mediator Alan Berkowitz has a knack of ensuring that people feel they are being heard, making it easier to settl...

Los Angeles-based family law firm Phillips Lerner ALC raised more than $6,000 for the Los Angeles Youth Network in 2013 as par...

Washington, D.C.-based firm is launching its first Northern California office Monday by poaching from King & Spalding. ...

In a discovery dispute between the parties Thursday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Margaret A. Nagle ordered the corn syrup industry'...

Former Chilean Judge Juan Guzman, who indicted Chile's dictator Augusto Pinochet on human rights violations in 2004, spoke Jan...

An Alameda County judge has tossed a lawsuit by environmental groups that sought to force state officials to conduct in-depth ...

While Wellman concentrates on complex business litigation, Warren focuses on the legal side of multi-level marketing, sometime...

A group of property owners sued the city of Vallejo for $70 million Thursday alleging the cash-strapped municipality is unfair...

Plenty of outside lawyers make names for themselves by successfully guiding startup after startup from infancy to exit. But a ...

Lawyers convicted of possession of child pornography have engaged in acts of moral turpitude and should be summarily banished ...

Non-English speakers who appear in California courts won a small but important victory Thursday as the Judicial Council voted ...

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...

Few attorneys can now claim to have a full-time robotics practice, but many propose that expertise in robotics-specific liabil...

General Counsel and Chief Privacy Officer for Wickr Del Mar ...

Chair Mary Jo White's announcement last year that the SEC was abandoning its decades-old no admit/no deny settlement policy ra...

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

The justices' unanimous ruling on a mass action circuit split reinforces the 9th Circuit's rule. By John A. Vogt and Ann T. Ro...

Along with a slew of strategic concerns, a retrial is a minefield in the arena of discovery, especially expert discovery. By J...

The volume of motions increased as the civil courts reorganized last spring, and courts must adjust. By Richard Fruin ...

Three friends and colleagues strike out on their own and open up a litigation boutique in downtown Los Angeles. ...

The plaintiff says her wages average out to be $5 an hour in the Alameda County suit ...

Firm helps talent agency giant with its acquisition of N.S. Bienstock Inc. for undisclosed terms. ...

Marc R. Greenberg, who worked in the Central District's organized crime strike force, has jumped to Musick, Peeler & Garre...

A federal judge sided with Electronic Arts Inc. Wednesday, overturning a $3.6 million jury verdict for a former employee that ...

A federal appeals court on Wednesday handed a victory to the state of California in its effort to cut the carbon intensity of ...

In antother billion-dollar deal for the cybersecuity world, a Bay Area MoFo deal team helped longtime client VMware acquire At...

San Diego's major newspaper must pay a class of former carriers for treating the carriers as independent contractors rather th...