New assignments for several judges on Friday shocked attorneys in San Francisco County Superior Court, which will move respect...

A Harvard Law School graduate from Irvine and his law firm have been sued for operating an alleged nationwide mortgage-modific...

The California Public Employees' Retirement System may not get preferential treatment as a creditor in municipal bankruptcies,...

Berkeley is the latest of many law schools in California and around the country to offer moot courts for appellate practitione...

Morrison & Foerster LLP lawyers in California advised on two recent deals that involved more than a dozen firms across the...

San Mateo County Judge Leland Davis III takes his job on the bench, and as a father, seriously.

The California Bar Foundation announced the appointment of seven attorneys to the foundation's board of directors, as well as ...

As Congress continues to wrestle with thorny discussions on budget cuts and tax increases, law firms across California and the...

If class actions and mergers require government approval, settlements in patent suits between rivals should be subject to at l...

On Sept. 23, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 1680 into law. ...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC has expanded its Asia platform by opening a new office in Beijing, its third office la...

A jury delivered a resoundingly pro-defense verdict late Wednesday in a federal lawsuit accusing former Los Angeles District ...

The Boy Scouts of America prevailed in a long-running legal dispute over whether a city could give land use rights to a religi...

The Orange County Bar Association (OCBA) celebrated the grand opening of its new headquarters at 4101 Westerly Place in Newpor...

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP represented Mountain View-based Google Inc. in the sale of its Motorola Home business...

Apple Inc. is pressing on with its demand for a permanent injunction blocking the sale of various Samsung mobile devices in th...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Oracle Corp. in purchasing cloud marketing management company Eloqua Inc. for $871 ...

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. announced Thursday that 17-year company veteran Karen Roberts will be its new executive vice president a...

On Dec. 19, attorneys and staff in the San Francisco office of Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP donated time to the Glide Memori...

Stubbs Alderton & Markiles is accustomed to complex, multifaceted deals, such as helping represent Skype's founders in the...

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

Loyola Law School hosted its 2012 Alumni Grand Reunion at the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum. Several alumni (pictu...

On Dec. 6, Tipping Point Community, the Bay Area's leading poverty-fighting organization, honored Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher ...

Katherine A. Feinstein, presiding judge of San Francisco County Superior Court, will retire from the bench early next year, cl...

Medical marijuana advocates and the city of Oakland lined up in federal court Thursday to try to derail a U.S. government crac...

With tweets and "friend" requests crowding the Internet, another social media network is jumping into the marketplace - but th...

Alexander L. "Lex" Brainerd, a veteran intellectual property lawyer, has been busier than he expected since joining JAMS as a ...

On Dec. 14 the Los Angeles Lawyers Philharmonic and its chorus, Legal Voices, performed a holiday gala concert for a capacity ...

Loyola Law School hosted the 11th annual National Civil Trial Competition, presented along with Greene Broillet & Wheeler ...

An appellate court sided this week with lawyers allegedly jilted in a fee-sharing agreement in a decision that could have broa...