The documents cover the period from 1965 to 1985 and detail accusations against 1,247 scout leaders involving 1,622 child vict...

There has been a proliferation of suits where the coverage counsel provide substandard advice to defend claims which obviously...

These open issues, which could have a significant impact on biotechnology companies, must await to be resolved until another d...

In their new book, authors Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin discuss how over the last 30 years, the Federalist Society ha...

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

The Bar Association of San Francisco's young lawyer division, the Barristers Club, hosted a benefit art show at Morrison &...

The State Bar Court has recommended that a San Diego lawyer be suspended from practicing law for 90 days for inappropriately s...

The same panel of appellate judges that earlier this year handed Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. control over the Superman cha...

James R. Silkenat, president-elect of the American Bar Association, welcomed the 2013 class of Golden Gate University School o...

The federal receiver for the state's prison health care system filed a report Wednesday blasting state officials and claiming ...

From left, associates Alison Kleaver and Anna Stancu of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP take a break from the asse...

From left, Ara Babaian of the Encore Law Group; Neal Salisian, partner with Salisian Lee LLP; sole practitioner Sean Higgins; ...

On May 15, California Western School of Law's Access to Law Initiative hosted a reception for attorneys interested in particip...

Attorney General Eric Holder will not have to be deposed to explain why the state secrets privilege was invoked in a case abou...

The Impact Fund, a Berkeley-based organization that provides funding and legal support for civil rights, environmental justice...

The Multicultural Bar Alliance of Southern California held an event at Southwestern Law School on May 16 called "A Celebration...

U.S. officials must give explicit reasons - not merely cite a vague anti-terrorism statute - for denying a visa to the Afghan...

State Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees voted unanimously to provide the branch with another $100 million in funding - ...

It's a fact of life that every year millions of specimens are sent to crime labs for analysis. In recent years tales of proble...

Tomar Mason, who retired from the San Francisco County Superior Court bench in 2011, is adjusting quickly to work as a mediato...

Over the past few years, hundreds of dairy farmers in the state - caught in a battle between high feed costs and lower dairy ...

In one year the number applying for one type - 501(c)(4) "social welfare" status - spiked 50 percent. By Bruce Givner ...

Despite its success, stop-and-frisk is under attack by those who claim it produces illegal searches and racial profiling. By L...

If you want to know how to irritate the clerk, frustrate the judge, baffle opposing counsel, muddy the record, delay the proce...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a decision that expansively describes public employee protected free speech i...

The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Tuesday that a former college athlete can pursue a lawsuit against Redwood City-ba...

Baker & Hostetler LLP snagged a former White House executive, J. David Bournazian, as a litigation partner in its Costa Me...

A San Diego lawyer disbarred this month for operating mortgage-modification scams now faces a lawsuit by attorneys from Arnold...

Proposed state legislation would set strict standards for the use of solitary confinement at state and local juvenile detentio...

Vice President, Legal and Business Affairs and General Counsel of SRI International Menlo Park ...