San Francisco-based Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC is joining with international law firm Arnold & Por...

Jones Day helped German enterprise software giant SAP AG in a proposed buy of San Mateo-based SuccessFactors Inc. for $3.4 bil...

A roundup of M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Plaintiffs in the growing number of securities fraud class actions against Chinese-based companies are getting a shot in the a...

A pair of Inland Empire justice centers are among several long-awaited courthouse projects jumpstarted by the state's sale of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider the validity of patents on certain diagnostic tests, the outcome of which could make...

Two recent decisions make it tougher to decide whether to appeal from the original or the amended judgment. By Anne M. Grignon...

A new law, set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012, dramatically increases the stakes.

The state Supreme Court provides employees and retirees with a new way to sue local public agencies. By Judith S. Islas of Lie...

Governments cannot solve their budget problems by repudiating contracts with their employees. By Catherine Fisk of UC Irvine, ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A prominent public relations guru and several co-defendants have agreed to a $6.25 million cash payment to settle a federal la...

A San Francisco federal judge issued two rulings last week that stymied a pair of consumer lawsuits against Apple Inc. and AT&...

Jb growth in the legal industry remained sluggish as only 100 jobs were added nationwide last month.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP added Mark Peterson as partner in Newport Beach. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporat...

In what is being touted as the largest-ever residential solar project, SolarCity has finalized a critical financing agreemen...

Chief counsel at six University of California campuses have received approval for salary hikes ranging between 6 and 21 percen...

The United States Department of Justice gave the green light to Google Inc. for its $400 million planned acquisition of New Yo...

The reduction in the number of civil court reporters in counties such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo has ra...

At the request of a Santa Clara technology company facing a patent infringement suit, a federal appeals court on Friday ordere...

In denying litigator Martin D. Singer's Anti-SLAPP motion Tuesday, a judge determined that the lawyer's demand letter to a cli...

Fresno County officials will file a modification to the 1991 consent decree on early inmate releases that clarifies the term '...

California real estate boutique firm Miller Starr Regalia has announced that Anthony M. Leones will become its new managing sh...

On Monday, Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton announced that Timothy R. Cahn, a partner in the firm’s San Francisco office, re...

A nonprofit that filed a constitutional challenge to the National Organ Transplant Act won a victory from the 9th U.S. Circuit...

A vote by the California Public Utilities Commission on Thursday appears to signal that utilities may have a harder time gett...

Skeptical of CNN's claims that its free speech rights were infringed, a federal court judge appears poised to allow a case aga...

A West Hollywood lawyer and psychotherapist is hoping to capitalize on the gap between what the law requires for mental health...

Mikelis Beitiks, student at UC Hastings College of the Law, San Francisco, won first place in the California Supreme Court His...

The decision in Wal-mart could restrict federal court authority to certify punitive damages. By Felix Shafir of Horvitz...