An effort is under way to reduce the number judicial branch committees and working groups and increase Judicial Council oversi...

Latham & Watkins LLP represented San Francisco-based OpenTable Inc. in its $10 million purchase of Foodspotting Inc., Open...

A California appellate court indicated Tuesday it was inclined to throw out an elderly writer's claim that ABC stole his ideas...

With state prisons already facing federal scrutiny over medical and mental health services for inmates, new reports highlighti...

U.S. immigration reform announced Monday is still very much in the abstract and experts said the provisions of the proposal co...

By Peter J. Logan ...

That is what is happening on the streets and in the courtrooms across the state - the rapist is advised of his right to counse...

A unanimous state Supreme Court issued its decision in Aryeh v. Canon Business Solutions, allowing at least a portion o...

If an opening statement can decide the outcome of a criminal trial, then it behooves lawmakers to implement measures that insu...

An effort by victims to hold the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission liable for failing to detect and halt Bernard L. Mado...

The Department of Labor Standards Enforcement fined a warehouse operator in Chino more than $1 million on Monday for unpaid ov...

Six California cases challenging banks over the alleged conspiracy to manipulate global interest rates have been consolidated ...

In a win for Emeco Industries Inc.'s lawyers at Munger, Tolles, & Olson LLP, Restoration Hardware agreed to stop selling i...

Sedgwick LLP claims the receiver cleaning up Medical Capital Holdings Inc. has sued the law firm over more disputed loans than...

Ray Charles' children have won control over the copyrights to 60 of the late, great soul singer's compositions. ...

Giving a boost to the state's nascent cap and trade market, a San Francisco judge has ruled that regulators acted within their...

A recent appellate court ruling is ruffling feathers among some attorneys, who call the decision "radical" and claim it opens ...

Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP has preliminarily won $23 million in an arbitration involving alleged unpaid attorney fe...

Born to field workers, Emily E. Vasquez discovered the law's potential to bear fruit

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

A pair of prominent former London lawyers disbarred by British authorities have brought a $10 million RICO and race bias laws...

General Counsel of Box Inc. Los Altos Size of legal department: 4 lawyers ...

Gideon Kanner's argument that union grocery clerks are "strangers" with no right to "intrude" on Ralphs Supermarkets' property...

As a former prosecutor for the State Bar, I commend the State Bar Board of Trustees exploration into the issue of limited lice...

Justice Scalia has lamented that Heller represents the Supreme Court's first in depth look at the rights bestowed by th...

Patent holders used to limit their damages cases to domestic activities; resolution of disputes today may not be so simple. By...

Dallas-based AT&T Inc. announced it's purchasing dozens of licenses from Verizon Wireless with help from Sullivan & Cr...

The frontman of a Los Angeles rock band called Lights Over Paris has been charged with defrauding banks of more than $6 millio...

Chief among their tasks is obtaining prison files for inmates eligible to be resentenced under the proposition. But with scant...

A federal judge on Friday appeared skeptical that an oyster farm, operating in a spectacular estuary north of San Francisco, s...