Jina L. Choi will be the new chief of the Securities and Exchange Commission's San Francisco regional office. ...

After a whirlwind three weeks that included publishing four research papers on patent litigation, Colleen Chien can now shift ...

A San Francisco judge on Friday heard arguments over whether he should throw out a jury verdict and deny damages to a programm...

Trial lawyers Friday trumpeted what they called favorable wording for a ballot initiative to lift a 30-year-old cap on pain an...

The state plans to withhold $21.6 million from Ontario over the next several months - an action that would be the first time i...

Measure would reform parts of the state's landmark environmental law and streamline approval of a basketball arena in downtown...

Lawmakers approved AB 1159 and AB 888 to boost the State Bar's power to protect consumers from fraud and the unauthorized prac...

Bentham IMF, a subsidiary of the one of the world's most venerable litigation finance firms, has opened a Los Angeles office. ...

Patti S. Kitching enjoys digging into the 'exciting' stories of cases in her appellate division.

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

Given the general heightened presence of unions in California generally, we can expect California employers may be a future ta...

Bingham McCutchen LLP Chairman Jay Zimmerman hosted an all-star panel of speakers with diverse backgrounds at the San Francisc...

Re: "Bet Tzedek Employees Rally Against Health Plan Change," Sept. 6. By Sandy Samuels ...

Palo Alto-based Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates partner James J. Elacqua secured a win for a Min...

The San Jose trial firm houses a managing partner who quotes Shakespeare and Vonnegut alongside Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. and ...

The Western Justice Center Foundation hosted an honorees' luncheon at its Pasadena headquarters to recognize the winners of it...

Attorneys at Hobart Linzer LLP hosted more than 100 guests on Aug. 14 to celebrate the firm's move to a new downtown Los Angel...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP attorneys in Palo Alto counseled Menlo Park-based private equity firm Silver Lake Partners ...

AB 227 would protect businesses from lawsuits for not posting signs mandated by Prop. 65. ...

University of San Francisco School of Law professor Thomas J. Klitgaard shared memories of practicing law in China with studen...

Testimony ended in the Silicon Valley Law Group malpractice trial Thursday. The jury must now dig through a tangled mess of te...

The American Association for Justice honored a batch of California attorneys as Diplomates of Trial Advocacy at the AAJ's annu...

Pillsbury represented Los Angeles-based The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf owner International Coffee & Tea LLC in the sale of...

Chapman University formally unveiled the new name of its law school — the Dale E. Fowler School of Law — in a ceremony honorin...

After months of anticipation, an overhaul of California's landmark environmental law is dead for now. On Wednesday night, Sena...

State policymakers are unfairly gaming the system so they can rename a portion of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge after o...

According to veteran mediator Eleanor Barr, the key to successful resolutions hinges on one important skill. ...

The firm is seeing its latest maneuver - a three-year push to build an international arbitration platform that circles the glo...

Although the government's EB-5 Immigrant Investor Program can be tapped by any company for any project, massive development p...

Now is not the time to decide whether the city of Richmond can go through with a novel plan to seize 624 underwater mortgages ...