King & Spalding added intellectual property attorneys Kenneth L. Steinthal and Joseph R. Wetzel to its San Francisco office.

Stanford Law School plans to launch a new think tank focused on policy development in international human rights and global so...

A group of Bay Area-based lawyers has sued one of the state's largest plaintiffs' law firms, alleging it tried to hide assets ...

Stanford Law School will bolster its faculty ranks this summer with the addition of a constitutional and common law professor,...

A 9th Circuit motions panel granted an emergency request to keep Marin County's Drakes Bay Oyster Co. open for business while ...

Entertainment companies can get technology by building it in-house, acquiring it through strategic acquisition or partnering w...

The controversial effort to reform the state's bedrock environmental protection law has been plunged into uncertainty in the w...

A class of foreign national workers will settle the federal suit with their employer, Indian company Tata Consultancy Services...

A judge's role as the "gatekeeper" who controls trial testimony doesn't empower her to squelch qualified expert opinion, a 9th...

Reforming a law permitting suits against businesses that fail to post warnings about dangerous chemicals and changes to how ju...

Litigants - both patentees and accused infringers - should welcome the rule changes. By Randall E. Kay

Lawyers render a service so they do not have to collect sales taxes; however, they are subject to paying use tax when t...

Score decently on the LSAT, go to University of La Verne College of Law free. It's a good move for the struggling school, but ...

Under a new law that went into effect Jan. 1, all companies that pay commissions to employees providing services in California...

The Department of Labor estimates that 1.2 million establishments employing 91.1 million workers will be affected by the new r...

Hank Greenberg was more than a spectacular baseball player. He was, as the subtitle of John Rosengren's biography states, "The...

The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce honored Mayer Brown LLP's Michael "Mickey" Kantor at its 125th Anniversary Inaugural ...

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

On Feb. 6, the Asian Pacific American legal community honored the appointments of five new Asian Pacific American law professo...

San Diego County Bar Association members enjoying the new member lounge area at the new headquarters, the Bar Center at 401.

Under a law to reduce lawyers' control over their own regulation, the Senate Rules Committee named Sacramento lawyer Glenda Co...

A longtime pro bono women's rights advocate has left private practice to serve as the chief legal counsel for Planned Parentho...

Federal prosecutors indicted a Montara man this week for allegedly masterminding a bankruptcy fraud scheme that defrauded a nu...

Nine-attorney land use boutique Armbruster Goldsmith & Delvac LLP added Damon P. Mamalakis, who joins former Latham attorn...

Attorneys and court funding advocates argue the latest round of court fee increases in Gov. Brown's budget proposal is harming...

Attorneys Dave Sampson (back, 3rd from left), Gary York (back, 3rd from right), Alan Petlak (back, 2nd from right), Ethan Cher...

San Francisco Assemblymember Tom Ammiano proposed a piece of legislation Wednesday addressing an issue that has frustrated def...

Redwood Shores-based Fortis General Counsel LLP, a boutique that that originally provided guidance to emerging companies, has ...

Family courts in Marin and Sacramento counties have improved in response to a two-year-old report from the state auditor's off...

Attorneys at Irell & Manella LLP scored a triumph of more than $130 million for their client, San Jose-based Tessera Techn...