Off the bench, Philip Pennypacker tours the state lecturing on topics important to the judiciary.

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

Presiding Justice Robert Mallano took his rise through the state's legal ranks one step at a time.

Kathleen O'Leary enjoys being a highly respected fixture in the Orange County legal community.

New York-based Morrison & Foerster LLP pro bono counsel Jennifer K. Brown was promoted to senior pro bono counsel, filling...

In a excerpt from a recent M&A Forum, Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP debate whether or not ...

A mediator proposed by opposing counsel comes to the process with an important plus - credibility in the eyes of the opposing ...

So who is the best mediator for your case? A retired judge, an ADR legal expert, an industry expert? There's no single right a...

The Federal Bar Association of Los Angeles hosted a panel discussion on the legal quandaries surrounding the hundreds of thous...

A judge has tentatively denied class certification for a group of law school graduates who accuse Thomas Jefferson School of L...

When David Hunter sits down for mediations or arbitrations, he not only has 34 years worth of cases he presided over to draw u...

San Francisco-based Durie Tangri LLP welcomed family and friends to the firm's recently renovated office space on Sept. 12 in ...

Santa Clara University School of Law held its annual Sports Law Symposium on campus Sept. 12. A series of ESPN reporters, form...

San Diego Superior Court Judge Cynthia A. Bashant was nominated to be the next federal judge in the Southern District on Thurs...

Justice Rebecca Wiseman, the senior jurist on the 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno, is retiring at the end of October. ...

The USC Gould School of Law hosted a Sept. 11 luncheon discussion about the emerging field of space law. "There is pretty muc...

Attorney volunteers from the San Diego County Bar Association joined judges from the San Diego County Superior Court along wit...

Ellen Pao claims she was held back at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers because she is a woman. ...

A U.S. court has delayed Vivendi SA 's $8.2 billion deal to sell most of its stake in Santa Monica-based video game giant Acti...

Jorge Subero Isa, the former chief justice of the Dominican Republic's Supreme Court, was honored Sept. 11 by the internationa...

Legal work stemming from damage to residential developments in the 1994 Northridge earthquake helped Beaumont Gitlin Tashjian ...

The case before the 3rd District Court of Appeal centered on the meaning of Section 23394.7 of the Business and Professions Co...

The long running employment case between Encore Capital Group and its former general counsel, Timothy Moser, ended with a jury...

Former U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Dole was awarded the 2013 William O. Douglas Award by Public Counsel at the organization's annual d...

Recent changes in patent law are encouraging plaintiffs to file even more cases in the District of Delaware, blowing past the ...

California generated almost $2 trillion in economic output in 2011 - as much as New York and Florida combined. Yet our cities ...

An en banc panel hears a dispute over whether the federal government ignored harm to delta smelt in water contracts. ...

The firm opened nine offices since 2012, all self-financed. Some caution the strategy can be too much of a drag on partner pro...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions 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...