Experienced litigator Daniel P. Dean has been elected to a three-year term, the bar announced Thursday. ...

The Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center honored Jose Padilla, executive director of California Rural Legal Assistance, at ...

More than 50 people from 16 teams participated in a bike-a-thon at Crissy Field on June 15 to support The Justice & Divers...

The SEC voted Wednesday to lift an 80-year-old advertising ban, a move praised by lawyers as instrumental in removing barriers...

The state Supreme Court directed a court of appeal to reconsider its 2011 decision declaring unconsitutional a California law ...

A judge ruled that a dispute between the J.R.R. Tolkien estate and Warner Bros. Digital Distribution Inc. over the rights to d...

San Francisco-based Strike & Techel Beverage Law Group LLP helps makers, marketers, sellers and shippers in navigating the...

Fifty-four students have begun hands-on summer internships throughout 44 Orange County law firms, where they will participate ...

On his last business day in office, outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villairaigosa married Paul Katami and Jeff Zarrillo, pl...

Hollywood producers Gerald and Patricia Green are on the hook for $250,000 in restitution for an overseas bribery scheme, at l...

The state Senate on Thursday confirmed Jeffrey Beard as the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation with...

Since Houston-based Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and London-based Norton Rose LLP officially joined forces June 3, the firm ha...

A proposed settlement agreement filed Thursday in San Diego County Superior Court asks a judge to allow Bayer AG to pay $74 mi...

Four years ago, Roose lead the mediation between the Bay Area Rapid Transit System, known as BART, and its two biggest unions....

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

General Counsel of Unity Technologies San Francisco ...

The hush-hush 11-judge Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that authorizes governmental spying has been around since the 1...

Studies vary, but recent estimates suggest that between 15,000 and 19,000 malpractice suits are brought against doctors each y...

Every decade or so, someone declares that privacy is dead. And the recent NSA disclosures have brought a resurgence of hand-wr...

In 2005, a high school student was suspended for creating a fake MySpace page mocking his principal. The ensuing litigation en...

A Cypress attorney who allegedly offered mortgage modifications to homeowners in at least eight states outside California face...

Irish law firm A&L Goodbody is opening its third office in the United States with a new location in San Francisco. ...

A San Francisco lawyer previously declared a vexatious litigant should be disbarred for his "vengeful and spiteful" pattern of...

Gordon & Rees founding partner Stuart M. Gordon and partner James R. Reilly recently won a complete defense judgment in a ...

The Judicial Council took a first step in implementing a historic new funding allocation formula for the state's courts Tuesda...

A federal agency has halted the search for a permanent home for the Silicon Valley branch of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Off...

A provision of realignment that went into effect at the beginning of July has mooted a more than decade-long lawsuit in federa...

Litigation in China involves a unique set of challenges - one of them being collecting evidence. By Song Zhu ...

In a case observers say could help define whether entities can collect taxes on Indian land, a Palm Springs water agency is su...

Is it legal for a health insurance company to deny doctor recommended procedures to patients, even when the treatments are in ...