Colin Kaepernick’s appeal and the potential legalization of sports gambling were the leading topics of 2017

Allstate Insurance Company received a bitter surprise after a federal judge reversed a favorable jury verdict right before the...

Plaintiffs’ attorneys won a major battle in their long war to limit forced arbitration this year. New campaign finance regulat...

As a law student, Laura Donaldson took on the case of a 40-year-old man who was sentenced to life for his part in a murder as ...

Partners Denis Moriarty and Kenneth Anderson found that many of the firm’s employees were already volunteering.

Several agencies will launch a collaborative human trafficking calendar aimed at tearing young girls and boys away from forced...

Large and medium-sized law firms continue to scale back office footprints as costs for premium space increase, according to re...

Allegations of misconduct have dominated the back end of 2017 in entertainment law.

San Francisco and two other cities filed a lawsuit Monday against the U.S. Department of Defense, alleging that the federal go...

As plaintiffs’ employment lawyers brace themselves for the U.S. Supreme Court’s judgment on their last, real hope to mitigate ...

Ann Taylor Schwing, a lawyer with Best Best & Krieger LLP, is spending a lot of time working to address damage to property...

California is already unusual in requiring sexual harassment workplace training, and, starting Jan. 1, that training will expa...

In the latest large settlement stemming from the financial crisis, Royal Bank of Scotland Group has agreed to pay $125 million...

A man wrongfully convicted of murder was granted his freedom this year after 21 years in prison with the help of a Keker, Van ...

The governor is making progress on filling all judicial vacancies, but he still hasn’t picked a state Supreme Court justice.

U.S. Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has asked the Administrative Office of the United States Courts to review employee guid...

According to industry experts, the most in-demand practice areas of 2017 were employment, intellectual property, real estate a...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court jury awarded $3.5 million to 16 former and current residents of the Park La Brea Apartment...

An attempted murder suspect at the center of Orange County’s informant controversy will leave prison in less than four years u...

A sharply divided state Supreme Court affirmed an appellate court ruling that will allow a lawsuit to go forward potentially h...

The agency no longer sends paper statements to lawyers to collect annual payments.

Internship program offers opportunities for low-income teenagers

San Francisco-based app data company formalizes its legal team with general counsel appointment.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ruled that two brothers in a long-running real estate battle worth $1 billion could not rei...

About 10,000 Bay Area students have since participated in the interactive program.

Apple Inc. allegedly throttled the performance of older iPhone models to force consumers to buy expensive new ones, according ...

Attorney Joe Genshlea first gained a reputation as a charming, persuasive trial attorney. Then he started doing one-man shows ...

A Connecticut federal jury decided unanimously that a 1,000-member class of computer support employees, including hundreds in ...

The criminal law and procedure scholar had been serving as interim dean since Erwin Chemerinksy’s departure.