As part of a push to reform the state's medical malpractice law, tort lawyers and consumer advocates are also taking aim at do...

Lawyers counseling the alcohol industry are noticing an increase in business, as clients reach out for advice on how to avoid ...

Attacks on prosecutorial immunity have become a feeding frenzy on the Internet. By Joseph Sorrentino ...

This holding heralds far-reaching and positive implications for medical device manufacturers that conduct business in Californ...

Law firm mergers and acquisitions nationwide are on pace to reach an all-time high in 2013, according to a report released Mon...

A U.S. District Judge denies one appeal, but urged President Barack Obama to halt the practice. ...

Washington, D.C.-based Arent Fox LLP, which opened its San Francisco office last month, landed top commercial litigator Arthur...

McGeorge School of Law laid off nine staff members last week, part of a plan to cut the Sacramento school's student body and s...

Orange County must provide the Sierra Club mapping data about the county's land parcels at a minimal cost, the state Supreme C...

The Mickey Rooney Elder Abuse Pro Bono Project, started last year by Holland & Knight LLP, seeks to protect senior citizen...

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.'