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

As unions have seen their membership decline precipitously since the 1980s, they have developed alternative techniques for adv...

The former deputy general counsel for Zynga Inc. has left the gaming company to take a break from work. ...

It is reasonable to suppose that Americans can learn from the French example (or from other comparative law examples), and cou...

A federal judge denied, for now, class certification for former employees at Silicon Valley technology behemoths but gave the ...

A U.S. investor with no residence in China that sells shares of a Cayman Islands company, which in turn holds shares in a Chin...

The former director of intellectual property at Elan Pharmaceuticals Inc., Atulya R. Agarwal, will try his hand at private pra...

The federal government scored a win in the Central Valley water wars Friday as a 9th Circuit panel held the U.S. Department of...

The 9th Circuit denied MGM and Loeb & Loeb's request for attorney fees following the studio's August win in litigation ove...

The nationwide jobless rate dipped to 7.6 percent from 7.7 percent in March, according to data released Friday from the U.S. B...

In Friday's order, U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton ruled that the state failed to convince him that it was not violati...

Despite global M&A decline in the first quarter, U.S.-based M&A shot up by 33.6 percent in terms of deal value compare...

A statewide ethics committee gave judges the go-ahead to ask attorneys to help convince lawmakers that courts need more money ...

"Are we there yet?" It's a familiar refrain to anyone who has ever been on a long car trip with a child. It's also the theme u...

Toyota Motor Corp. will pay the Orange County district attorney's office $16 million to settle an unfair competition lawsuit o...

Del Norte County District Attorney Jon M. Alexander conceded Friday he may have to give up his job after a State Bar prosecuto...

Juvenile Court Judge Zeidler fights for fairness for gay couples, children and everyone else.

General Counsel, Senior Vice President and Secretary for Splunk Inc. San Francisco ...

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

Dickstein Shapiro LLP added Atulya R. Agarwal as a partner in its Palo Alto office. He joins the firm from Elan Pharmaceutical...

Michael Raphael strives to fit rulings within a broad legal context, a nod to his appellate work.

Judge Larry Errea attended six post-secondary schools before finding his legal niche in Kern County.

Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges stage a mock negotiation debating the inclusion of "sandbagging claus...

Now, as clarified by the FEHC, it may be a reasonable accommodation to allow an employee and a job applicant to bring an "assi...

Medicare and Medicaid comprise 21 percent of the federal budget. As such, I want to look at some ways of raising revenues for ...

The HIPAA Omnibus Final Rule went into effect on March 26. Covered entities and business associates have a little less than si...

More than any other substantive area of law, securities class actions rarely go to trial and are either resolved in motion pra...

Trusting your accountant's advice about when your taxes are due might be a big mistake, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pa...

Frustration bubbled over among attorneys as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali rejected yet another attempted lawsuit agains...

An Assembly budget subcommittee Wednesday gave its support for some less controversial proposed court fee hikes and service cu...