Thirty lawyers, judges and legal academics drew the job Tuesday of figuring out how to ensure future California lawyers have m...

Decades after the creation of the general rule that such claims are not assignable, a court has carved out a narrow exception....

Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointments of 18 new trial court judges Thursday, including eight to Los Angeles County Super...

For the second time in two months, the State Supreme Court is wrestling with the question of when to ban a wrongdoer from bar ...

Interactions with this type of opposing counsel can trigger all kinds of reactions in us, and it can be difficult to know what...

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...

General Counsel of Argonaut Investments Corte Madera ...

The island nation, which has long pushed for multinational corporations to make it their base of operations in Asia, hopes to ...

Victims of child pornography explain that knowing that people all over the world are watching the video footage feels like bei...

Here are some highlights of bills enacted in 2013 that will become effective next year. By Christine Spagnoli and Nancy Peveri...

A federal judge's ruling this week could allow pension-saddled municipalities across the nation - including in California - to...

Lawyers representing the maker of Crystal Head Vodka failed to convince a jury that the maker of Kah Day of the Dead Tequila -...

A San Jose judge dismissed a lawsuit challenging the company's privacy policy for sharing user data, but left plaintiffs one m...

A lawsuit echoing Attorney General Kamala Harris' robosigning litigation provides insight into how the bank allegedly filed hu...

Convicted clients who fall victim to ineffective assistance by their appellate counsel may be entitled to relief even if their...

A nightmarish scenario has unfolded in Massachusetts, where a forensic technician who handled 40,000 criminal drug cases over ...

In an interview, Larry Sonsini discusses the major forces affecting law firm business and what advice he has for corporate cou...

The Project for the Innocent at Loyola Law School has drafted legislation that would provide criminal defense attorneys and th...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

Nonbank lenders, from private equity firms to insurance companies, often lend alongside banks, which creates a host of issues ...

Whatever the cause of the recent accident claiming the lives of Paul Walker and Roger Rodas, the event is likely to ignite a f...

Even if proposed rules to allow class action-type litigation in France will not mirror U.S.-style class actions, this new proc...

A recent decision may have moved the dividing line between fatally indefinite statements and enforceable promises in favor of ...

In what could signal an emerging trend in the online music community, the singer-songwriter won the first round of a copyright...

The board held that workers have a substantive right to participate in concerted legal activity such as a joint or class lawsu...

Bay Area Rapid Transit managers want a do-over, but labor unions went to court Tuesday to argue that a deal's a deal. ...

Apple Inc. has called for a federal magistrate to hamper smartphone rival Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and outside counsel at ...

Kaye Scholer LLP lost its California offices co-managing partner, G. Thomas Stromberg, to Jenner & Block LLP Monday, but t...

On Jan. 1, 2014, the ground under lawyers is going to shift - if only slightly - when various changes to the California Rules ...