Maxwell M. Blecher, “a hugely influential figure in antitrust law,” has died at 84.

A former Bank of America employee is suing the company, claiming she and her peers were subjected to unreasonable workloads th...

A jury that continued to deliberate after a gang member’s brother approached a juror ruled on Thursday for the gang member’s m...

Gov. Jerry Brown named three appellate justices and 34 superior court judges on Thursday.

The U.S. Department of Justice continued Wednesday to tighten the screws on California state officials over a new law that wou...

In a fight between which should prevail, due process fairness or technical rules, 6th District Court of Appeal justices heard ...

The last of the Northern California wildfires that killed 43 people and burned more than 100,000 acres was fully contained Tue...

San Francisco Public Defender Jeff Adachi will host a free minimum continuing legal education event next week discussing publi...

An ethical rule requiring prosecutors to make timely disclosures about exculpatory evidence went into effect Thursday, making ...

The agency said it hopes finding ways to cut costs and increase revenue will limit the use of reserves next year.

Morrison & Foerster LLP associate Christian Andreu-von Euw has been given the firm’s 2017 Kathi Pugh Award for Pro Bono Se...

Some 500 attorneys, judges and their guests attended the 13th annual Tribute to the Champions of Justice dinner, hosted by the...

Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP attorneys took part in the inaugural Back on My Feet Treadmill Challenge on Oct. 25 in downtown...

Criminal defense attorney Louis J. Shapiro has signed on for a second season as a legal consultant for the NBC comedy “Trial &...

Judge Edward Moreton relishes the eclectic mix of matters he hears in his Los Angeles court.

For a second time, the state attorney general’s office is seeking to shut down a number of roving drug rehabilitation faciliti...

The plaintiffs who filed a motion Wednesday seeking a preliminary injunction to prevent President Donald J. Trump’s administra...

Keith C. Wetmore, the longtime chairman of Morrison & Foerster LLP, announced Wednesday that he will join legal recruiting...

A San Francisco County judge has tentatively rejected British Petroleum America Production Co.’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit by t...

As Major League Baseball’s post season reached a climatic finish, a baseball fight of a different nature is just heating up in...

A magistrate judge had tough questions for a healthcare company accused of denying inpatient mental health services to insuran...

Former Eastern District prosecutor nominated for another term

The 3rd District Court of Appeal has ruled a woman can get a restraining order against her ex-husband even though he lives tho...

Lawyers submitted fingerprints when applying to the bar, but they were not kept.

Workplace site inspections by the government to prevent fraud in the H-1B work visa program fail to fully protect against abus...

A federal judge sentenced Scott Steever, a disbarred Rohnert Park attorney who ran what was once Sonoma County’s largest law f...

A retired judge said efforts intended to address problems in the patent system have weakened it as a whole through over-regula...

In-house attorneys from Alphabet Inc.-owned Google, Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc. were grilled by the U.S. Senate Judiciary C...

A magistrate judge refused to let a tech company duck written discovery during a hearing on Tuesday, noting that a prior judic...