Francisco Nicholas and Scott Carlson teamed up in 2011 to start a real estate and business law firm, hoping to capitalize on t...

Perlette M. Jura, a partner at Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in Los Angeles, traveled to Guantanamo Bay last month to observ...

A recent decision finding FedEx employees to be employees contradicts numerous other cases holding the opposite. It also "unra...

Determining whether an issue was explicitly or implicitly decided can raise profound difficulties. By James C. Martin, Paula M...

Plaintiff's attorneys want California voters to approve a ballot measure raising the state's cap on medical malpractice payout...

The outcome was in doubt Thursday as lawyers for retired NFL players and a leading video game maker argued before a 9th U.S. C...

Conventional wisdom is that engagement letters should include an arbitration clause. By Bruce A. Friedman ...

It's up to supervising prosecutors to develop policies and procedures to reduce or eliminate prosecutorial misconduct in their...

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

As the new State Bar president, Craig Holden says the bar's mission of public protection should encompass helping new lawyers,...

Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Accuray Inc. Sunnyvale ...

Simply put, the exemption is a blunt tool for ensuring good state government. By Daniel G. Swanson and Blaine H. Evanson ...

Insurance agent or insurance broker? In everyday parlance these two terms are often used interchangeably, but the difference c...

Despite robust market dynamics, frothy equity market valuations are straining traditional valuation metrics. By Ryan A. Murr ...

The nation's largest police legal defense fund and the now-defunct police advocacy law firm Lackie Dammeier McGill & Ethir...

California lawyers are buzzing about a New York federal judge's ruling this week that subscription website TVEyes has "fair us...

The state Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal brought by a group of retired judges and their heirs who claim they were...

The state Supreme Court appointed Catherine D. Purcell as new presiding judge, and the high court elevated Judge Richard A. Ho...

Along with speeches, lunches and dozens of continuing legal education courses, the State Bar's annual meeting proceeding throu...

Retired Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner and community leader Richard "Dick" Odgers died of a long-term illness Sun...

Firms targeted by clawback cases in the Howrey LLP bankruptcy gained ground Tuesday when a bankruptcy judge dismissed several ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. tapped Fenwick & West LLP to handle its all-cash acquisition of San Francisco-based...

A recent decision finding FedEx employees to be employees contradicts numerous other cases holding the opposite. It also "unra...

It was the lure of a fresh economic justice advocacy model and maybe the appeal of a larger firm that drew Mark D. Rosenbaum a...

A state appellate court has handed a victory to the Coastal Commission in a dispute over whether it can impose time limits on ...

Richard A. Kramer is known for not being afraid to hand down rulings that ruffle feathers.

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The increasingly popular Immigrant Investor Program has hit a speed bump, potentially derailing momentum built up over the las...

Had the court allowed the case to go to trial, every franchisor doing business in California would have had shifted to it unli...