A landmark case on indemnity agreements gives new meaning to the scope of work documents and negotiation history, especially f...

The idea that an officer can be held liable for improper motives conflicts with the legal principle that a person cannot be pu...

A former legal secretary with the California Department of Justice is suing the agency over explosive claims that it did nothi...

Falling crime rates may have made California streets safer, but it's yet to translate into relief for the state's overburdened...

The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower court's decision that allows government-funded health clinics to make sure...

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San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is contemplating a merger with Washington, D.C.-based Akin Gump Strauss...

A federal appellate court permanently lifted an injunction halting federal funding for human embryonic stem cell research on T...

An Orange County charity that collected donations for fire victims and burn centers will pay $100,000 to settle allegations it...

A federal judge Tuesday denied a motion for preliminary injunction by a billboard company challenging the city of Los Angeles'...

A Los Angeles attorney pleaded guilty Tuesday to exchanging sexually explicit messages and arranging a hotel rendezvous with a...

A San Francisco federal judge late Monday denied an attempt by private plaintiffs to block the proposed merger of United and C...

Santa Clara-based BLADE Network Technologies Inc. called on its counsel at Palo Alto-based Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosat...

A judge has issued a preliminary injunction against Target Corp. in a case where 20 county and city district attorneys and the...

The former general counsel of Mercury Interactive Corp. still must face a SEC civil complaint over her alleged role in the com...

Amyris Inc.'s initial public offering came in lower than anticipated, but the company's stock rose higher in its first full da...

The National Association of Minority and Women Owned Law Firms hopes to push corporate counsel to diversify their use of outsi...

Returning from its three month summer hiatus, the U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday that it would intervene for a second ti...

Billy Preston always seemed to be grinning behind the piano as he sang his hit songs or performed with the Beatles. No one is ...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has launched a sweeping counterattack against a company that is filing complaints against c...

Thwarted for four years from carrying out executions, Attorney General Jerry Brown is fighting furiously to proceed with the l...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday appointed California Labor Commissioner Angela Bradstreet to the San Francisco County Su...

Vaughn Walker, Chief Judge of the Northern District, Announces Retirement ...

Food companies are wise to manage the legal risk of marketing misleading nutritional labels, recent litigation provides cautio...

Can't decide on a traditional Individual Retirement Arrangement or a Roth IRA? Here are some factors to consider, by Boyd D. H...

Men are filing more sexual harassment claims. There are steps to take to avoid liability, by Brianne L. Marriott of Liebert Ca...

Employers need to keep a close eye on their policies for appropriate use of workplace technology, by Robert D. Brownstone and ...

Chief Justice Ronald M. George prides himself on the Supreme Court's 5 percent dissent rate. Can his successor, Justice Tani C...

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court banned some class actions from proceeding in arbitration, mass confusion reigns. ...

Stuart Gasner of Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco carved the waters of Hawaii Saturday during the Hawaii Bar Association’...