Judge Blaine Bowman shows compassion to kids.

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

It's easy to round up a moot court at Dowling, Aaron & Keeler in Fresno. Just yell down the hall for Jim, Nick and Steve, ...

General counsel for the University of San Diego San Diego ...

The 1st District Court of Appeal on Friday ordered a San Francisco plaintiffs' lawyer to pay his former co-counsel $92,000 in ...

Litigation rollover accounts may be the answer to your client's objections. By David M. Higgins of Higgins Settlement Law ...

Avoid crippling liability by prospectively reclassifying your independent contractors as employees. ...

Before you sign up that next non-English speaking client, make sure your fee agreement conforms to state law. By Omar S. Anorg...

What was an essential ingredient of the Fourth Amendment is now a 'bitter pill' to swallow. By Brian M. Hoffstadt of the Los A...

Consumers seeking to enjoin AT&T's $39 billion merger with T-Mobile USA Inc. by filing more than 1,000 arbitrations across...

The general counsel for retail chain Williams-Sonoma Inc. has left his role to work for apparel manufacturer Levi Strauss &am...

As the economy begins to recover, hiring among California's in-house counsel is on the rise, and so are their salaries, accord...

Senators, litigators and alumni are increasing their pressure on the ABA to change how law schools report employment data for ...

A federal judge made official an earlier tentative ruling tossing out a $3 billion antitrust case in which Bratz manufacturer ...

Groupon Inc. has taken its share of lumps since filing to go public in June, but after setting the long-awaited initial publ...

A litigator at Manatt, Phelps & Phillips will co-chair a non-partisan program dedicated to involving American judges, lawy...

Two California firms long major players in insurance defense are making a concerted effort to shed that image and rebrand them...

When a campaign collects the allowed from a donor only to see its war chest wiped clean by theft, can the same donor be tapped...

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

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP picked up Nagendra "Nick" Setty as co-chair of its Intellectual Property practice ...

Judge Adrienne A. Orfield is an optimist and problem solver at home and on the bench.

Judge Tamara E. Hall learned from her parents the importance of kindness.

The law is riddled with fundamentally strange features - why? By Leo Katz of Unviersity of Pennsylvania Law School ...

The souped-up iPhone 4 has its perks, but also a few kinks. By Paul R. Kiesel of Kiesel Boucher & Larson ...

Employers who willfully misclassify workers as independent contractors face increased penalties starting next year. By James S...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer on Thursday confirmed his plans to take senior status by the end of the year in a move t...

Lawyers for a Newport Beach real estate developer made it rain to the tune of $50.3 million in damages for their client at a t...

A federal judge granted Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's request to fire Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. as ...

Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP, the newly formed 650-lawyer firm wedded by Boston and Chicago outfits that suffered partner defect...

A federal judge has denied a request by proponents of California’s gay marriage ban to order the removal of its donors’ names ...