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

Ralph Baxter, who has been at the helm of Orrick for 19 years, is considered to be the pioneer of the San Francisco firm's int...

John "Jay" Welsh oversees the legal matters of JAMS, the largest private alternative dispute resolution provider in the world....

Negotiation is a play - so mediators should consider the characters, setting, timing and how to manage the stage. ...

Certainly management skills are important - but at its essence, a law firm is a people business. You do not manage people - yo...

As law firms struggle to meet diversity goals set by corporate counsels, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman says it believes it h...

President Obama announced Friday his intent to nominate John Trasviña, who's the current president and general counsel for the...

Renowned San Francisco sexual harassment attorney Philip Kay took the stand in State Bar Court Friday morning and defiantly re...

Buried in the recently enacted stimulus bill is a provision that makes it very difficult for certain employers to petition for...

The court calendar is one of the most important, yet difficult aspects to manage at a small law firm. ...

James H. Hastings, a justice with the California Court of Appeal for 14 years who wrote the landmark decision giving patients ...

After serving 29 years of a murder sentence for sitting in a car while her husband shot and killed a store clerk, Connie Keel ...

Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher announced Friday that 36 staff members would be let go from the firm. No attorne...

Google has agreed to pay $20 million in cash and advertising credits to settle a long-running lawsuit alleging the search engi...

Federal prosecutors Friday dismissed a long-running securities fraud criminal case against the former general counsel for San ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Allan D. Hymer sports a no-nonsense style on the bench that’s won him praise from some but...

Earn one hour of MCLE credit by taking this test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli.

Judicial officers must strike a balance between keeping those in the courtroom safe and maintaining a fair trial.

Deborah Peagler, a 49-year-old former prostitute, is serving 25-years-to-life for the murder of Owen Wilson, her alleged pimp ...

Three decades on the bench has given Judge Aurelio Munoz a relaxed demeanor and reflective outlook. ...

A federal judge Thursday nullified a section of California's Proposition 9, approved by voters in November, that sought to lim...

Almost any business can identify ways that, acting with others having similar needs, cooperating entities can perform operatio...

The Senate Judiciary Committee pushed ahead Thursday on long-awaited legislation to reform the U.S. patent system, agreeing on...

Managers and supervisors need to be able to work without fear that making and communicating personnel management decisions pre...

The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approved the nomination of San Francisco litigator Tony West to become assistant at...

In upholding voters' unfettered power to enact discriminatory measures like Proposition 8, the Supreme Court may go further an...

Los Angeles County Superior Court ADR officials together with the Southern California Mediation Association used the court's f...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on Thursday selected 23 new trial court judges to fill vacancies statewide, including four each...

Mediator Victoria Pynchon relies heavily on human dynamics in helping parties acknowledge realities they may prefer to avoid. ...

The state budget crisis and fiasco is due in large part to an anachronistic law that requires a two-thirds majority vote in bo...