Dan Sedor of Jeffer Mangels examines Judge Shira Scheindlin's recent e-discovery ruling and its extension of the common law cu...
An effort by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to ease California's budget woes by sending state employees home without pay three day...
Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Biotech
Halt in Cuts To State Health Funds Upheld By 9th Circuit
By Evan George
Federal judges on Wednesday issued the firmest rebuke yet of California's health cuts, ruling that state officials again broke...
Union leaders representing Superior Court employees are in the final stages of negotiations with court management to hammer ou...
See our annual rankings of Northern California's 20 largest firms.20 Largest North...
U.S. Supreme Court justices gave short shrift Tuesday to the idea that plaintiffs should be able to sue individual federal hea...
FOSTER CITY - SolarCity and U.S. Bancorp created a $90 million fund to finance commercial and residential solar installations ...
SAN DIEGO - Shopping center owners and brokers invited to address San Diego members of NAIOP, the commercial real estate devel...
REDWOOD CITY - AutoZone purchased an 8,416-square-foot freestanding retail building at 901 El Camino Real for $2.3 million fro...
A busload of Central Valley farm workers rose before dawn Tuesday so they could hear lawyers argue their 10-year-old claim for...
The last year has not been an easy one for computer chip maker Intel. As allegations of monopolistic behavior, and lawsuits, f...
As the economy tries to recover from the market collapse that precipitated the Great Recession, securities attorneys are findi...
Top Northern California
Asset Sales Trump Reorganizations As 'Wave of the Future'
By Jill Redhage
With lenders reluctant to provide debtors the financing needed to reorganize under Chapter 11, bankruptcy lawyers have been ad...
After three years of law school, Andrew Ardinger finally got to stand inside a courtroom as a bona fide lawyer. However, it wa...
For Abbey Glenn, being deferred by Morgan, Lewis & Bockius for a year to work in the public interest sector seems only fit...
Sitting on $150,000 in student debt is no easy task, but until her full salary from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe kicks i...
The changes in the annual roundup of Northern California's 20 largest law firms won't be found in the names. No firm jumped on...
Top Northern California
Firms in Flux: High-Profile Partners Play Musical Chairs
By Jill Redhage
In the game of law firm musical chairs, the song stopped last year for a notable number of Northern California's créme de la c...
In a unanimous ruling Tuesday, the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated a settlement in a major copyright infringement case. ...
A federal judge Tuesday enjoined Los Angeles County District Attorney Steve Cooley from alleged "union-busting" tactics in a r...
Irell & Manella partners Morgan Chu and Jonathan Kagan won a defense verdict late last week in a breach of contract trial ...
Overruling itself, a divided 9th Circuit panel held Tuesday held that California employers who require workers to drive compan...
Sandy Lechtick of Esquire, Inc. says the manner in which law firms exploit opportunity and react to danger will play a signifi...
California recently passed several bills impacting the insurance industry in response to federal legislation, write Jamison Na...
Judge Don Howard of Amador County says nothing in Proposition 36 suggests use of community service as a punishment at the outs...
Assistant Federal Public Defender Harvey Gee examines the Supreme Court's 7-2 majority opinion in Florida v. Powell and the is...
Family law specialist Fred Silberberg says the budget crisis is not the real reason for why the family court system has reache...
Apple Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a smart phone manufacturer that uses Google's Android operating system, alleging that t...
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger did not overstep his authority when he slashed about $500 million from health clinics and other soc...
Employers' appeals of sanctions for alleged violation of immigration laws dropped to a mere 31 in the last fiscal year, accord...