A federal appeals court Tuesday heard pleas from a popular Northern California oyster farm fighting a government order to clos...

The Commission on Judicial Performance will hear arguments about whether Judge Bruce Clayton Mills violated ethics rules or ac...

A hedge fund's attempt to connect Venable LLP and a former firm partner to an allegedly fraudulent transaction involving Faceb...

Governor Jerry Brown's revised 2013-14 budget proposal disappointed judicial branch leadership by not offering any increased f...

The idea that computers can replace humans for certain types of work has threatened many industries for years, but only recent...

The court rejected the long-accepted holding of In re Pacific Express that bankruptcy courts in the 9th Circuit do not ...

Far too many firms only seem to be investing in efficiency - at the expense of being effective. By Patrick J. McKenna a...

The estate of Howrey LLP recently filed four new adversary cases against law firms, seeking to recover profits from unfinished...

The future looked foggy for an offshore cloud storage company accused of copyright infringement as it struggled to reverse a t...

On Monday, the state of California notified opposing counsel that it will petition the U.S. Supreme Court for review of a fede...

Fenwick & West LLP announced Monday it has landed a partner to anchor its efforts to launch an office in China. ...

The estate of Heller Ehrman LLP achieved a victory Monday when a district judge denied several motions made by firms seeking l...

Assembly Bill 715 would establish that evidentiary decisions made at summary judgment would be subject to de novo review on ap...

The Northern District of California has canceled the remaining four furlough days planned through the end of this fiscal year....

In an attempt to help homeowners facing foreclosure, city officials in Pomona may look at eminent domain as a way to help str...

The Obama administration is considering San Mateo Superior Court Judge Beth Freeman to fill a longstanding federal court vacan...

Stanford Law School appointed Phillip Malone as the new director and professor of law at the soon to launch Juelsgaard Intelle...

The firms represented South San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company Theravance Inc. in its $1 billion royalty agreement ...

Lawyers representing Silicon Valley technology companies applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's narrowly-tailored decision in a pa...

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

The bottom line: More and more companies are finding themselves in hot water over employment law issues for using unpaid inter...

A recent decision by the 4th District Court of Appeal creates new traps for litigants filing statutory writ petitions. By Robe...

Harder Mirell Abrams LLP, one of the newest arrivals to Tinseltown's entertainment litigation scene, was founded by a group of...

The U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District is losing one of its top chiefs, right at a time of a hard hiring freeze a...

State Bar leaders have unanimously voted to push ahead with a proposal that would kick up annual attorney dues $50 and siphon ...

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris lost her first attempt at using a 2003 law requiring companies to provide their p...

Federal weapons research lab Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC wrongfully terminated five employees in its 2008 layoffs...

An en banc panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a highly anticipated ruling Friday t...

Workers who earn piece rates rather than hourly wages can sue for missed rest breaks, an appellate panel ruled, ordering class...