The California Supreme Court agreed Wednesday to review an appellate court decision written by Chief Justice-nominee Tani Cant...
Allyson Willoughby, general counsel of the earth-friendly cleaning supply maker Method Products Inc., is heading to RockYou In...
Save Our Heritage Organisation has sued the city of San Diego for allegedly permitting the Salvation Army to demolish an histo...
Global risk consulting firm Kroll Inc. has named former Los Angeles City Councilman Jack Weiss as the managing director of its...
Judge Cynthia Ming-mei Lee has been selected to be San Francisco County Superior Court's new assistant presiding judge. ...
The American Bar Association issued a new ethics opinion Wednesday seeking to protect clients and give lawyers pointers to avo...
The flurry of litigation around the possible execution of Albert Greenwood Brown Jr. has drawn attention to a common argument ...
Law firms' minority recruiting efforts at firms took a hit last year as the recession stalled firms' diversity efforts. ...
Which will expire first: an injunction protecting Albert Brown's life or the drugs for his lethal injection? By Natasha Minske...
James J. Eischen Jr. of Eischen Law Group responds to Dean R. Broyles' "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" column. ...
A landmark case on indemnity agreements gives new meaning to the scope of work documents and negotiation history, especially f...
Litigation
Should a Person Be Liable Under the Law for Thoughts Alone?
By Carla Pinedan
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...
Real Estate/Development
Real Estate Movers And Dealmakers
By Jason W. Armstrong And Sean Win
The latest real estate movers and dealmakers.
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...
State Bar & Bar Associations
Minority Lawyers Seek Place at IP Table
By Kari Hamanakan
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...