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

Vice president and general counsel for Zilog Inc. San Jose ...

Superior Court Judge Kern County (Mojave and Ridgecrest) ...

A new study reveals that students victimized by anti-gay bullying suffer long-term health consequences. By Shannon Price Minte...

What is the proper measure of medical damages - the amount billed, or the amount paid? By Don Willenburg and John F. Hughes of...

A technology company responded to a Justice Department antitrust lawsuit blocking its merger with a California firm by abandon...

Former Hollywood super agent Mike Ovitz has been sued for more than $200,000 in unpaid legal bills to the now-defunct law firm...

Apple Inc. may benefit from the U.S. Supreme Court's arbitration-friendly ruling last month to limit consumer class actions ev...

A committee for California Sen. Barbara Boxer has submitted several names of possible federal judge nominees for the Central D...

A state appellate court may sanction the Orange County district attorney's office for hidding exculpatory evidence. ...

San Francisco's ranked-choice voting is not unconstitutional, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has found. ...

With interest rates so low, California technology companies like Google and Juniper Networks are choosing to issue corporate d...

How employers can protect themselves against "silent raids" by the government for immigration violations. By George L. O'Conne...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

A lawmaker's comment referring to the chief justice as attractive has touched off a debate about how gender issues are affecti...

Stanley Genser brooks no nonsense from lawyers and social workers when it comes to getting the best outcome for kids in his c...

A review of William Bennett Turner's "Figures of Speech, Heroes and Villains of the First Amendment." By Dennis Aftergut ...

Interpreting voters' intent, what the state Supreme Court is doing wrong. By Michael Boardman of Loyola Law School ...

Section 337 of the Tariff Act offers a unique, fast-paced forum for settling a variety of claims. By Lindsey E. Martí­nez of S...

A federal judge has approved $25 million in attorneys fees for the lawyers who represented plaintifs against World Savings Ban...

Senate Republicans dealt a potentially fatal blow to UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu's quest to join the 9th U...

The Sierra Club on Thursday filed suit against the 22nd District Agricultural Association, alleging violations of the state's ...

Construction defect lawyers have seen a surge in litigation, but many are predicting an eventual drop-off once the legal filin...

As the Obama administration takes long-anticipated steps toward repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," an effort to crush the con...

The state has formally approved a $241 million settlement against a huge medical test provider, the largest recovery in a whis...

LinkedIn Corp. started the day as a $4.3 billion company and before closing it was an $8.9 billion company. ...

Dennis P. Riordan of San Francisco law firm Riordan & Horgan has added another client to his well-known criminal appellat...

A federal jury has convicted a prominent L.A. businessman from the local Iranian community of four counts of wire fraud after ...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC scored an unusually high profile lateral partner Thursday: Delaware Chancery Court Cha...

Assistant Attorney General Christine Varney delivered a much-ballyhooed speech annoucing a new antitrust sheriff in town two y...