Santa Clara-based networking and communication devices company Extreme Networks Inc. named a new general counsel and vice pres...

Internet giant Yahoo Inc.'s former General Counsel Michael J. Callahan is once again at the helm of a large Internet company, ...

Inmates at Pelican Bay State Prison planned to begin a hunger strike Monday in response to the state's continued use of indefi...

Three California-based companies are one step closer to getting a patent complaint dismissed in the International Trade Commis...

In a rare rejection of state secret privileges, a federal judge in San Francisco on Monday allowed a lawsuit alleging widespre...

Attorneys are lining up to represent passengers of a Boeing 777 that crash-landed at San Francisco International Airport this ...

Judge Christopher Krueger is known for his thoroughness handling probate matters in his court.

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

While the region allows U.S. firms to counsel on many issues, including mergers and acquisitions, investments and financing de...

These issues are becoming more important - and rulings vary widely from state to state, even based on identical facts. By Mich...

The case will raise questions given that under prior state high court decisions, a different, more deferential standard has ap...

Popular attention has focused on the substantive parts of the Supreme Court's opinions issued in the last week of the court's ...

A Delaware court rejected a challenge to the use of forum selection bylaws requiring claims related to the internal affairs of...

It's beginning to appear California's business community is souring on a major effort to reform the state's controversial envi...

Jobs in the legal sector fell by more than 3,100 nationwide last month, according to data released by the Department of Labor ...

California violated the Medicaid Act when it passed legislation to stop paying for services provided by medical clinics for th...

Two of the most outspoken judges at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals complained in a published order last week about a U....

While mergers and acquisitions activity for the first half of the year was down compared to the same period in 2012, a pre-sum...

More than five years after the initial paperwork was filed in the bankruptcy of real estate development group Empire Lands LLC...

Family court judge Hank M. Goldberg of Los Angeles has earned the moniker 'Settlement Ninja.'

Vice President and General Counsel for Forever 21 Inc. Los Angeles ...

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

Los Angeles litigation boutique Weingarten Brown LLP welcomed Ronnie (Moharshi) Roy to chair the firm's new corporate transact...

Dalila Lyons is known for her willingness to hear extra cases to help trim big criminal dockets.

Fernando M. Olguin is one of few magistrate judges to be elevated to judge in the Central District.

It may be a tired expression, but it's still more true than not. Besides, most taxpayers - even lawyers - feel a chill when de...

The 9th Circuit moved quickly to lift its stay of the decision striking down Prop. 8. Now many plans will need changes, some o...

Lack of proper diet is like lack of sleep - it eventually catches up with you. By Sarah Condor ...

Major League Baseball has brought in a heavy hitter of its own, veteran defense attorney John W. Keker, to defend against a la...

Former Middle East special ambassador Dennis Ross captivated a small room of attorneys and mediators as he discussed his role ...