The State Bar has been working since 2000 to rewrite its discipline rules to align with ABA model rules. The enormous final pr...

Sophisticated parties and seasoned lawyers are often negotiating submission agreements these days - and for good reason. By Th...

While clients have an absolute right to fire their counsel at any time, lawyers do not always have a reciprocal right to withd...

Law firm failures often catch partners by surprise. So can you make an informed evaluation of how your firm is doing? There ar...

The Landau Lawyers League crowned three champions Sunday, concluding the organization's summer softball season. The winning te...

Attorneys often hire David J. Meadows, a former Keker & Van Nest LLP litigator and managing partner, to handle business di...

A San Francisco-based lawyer who accuses her former firm of wrongful termination is a step closer to getting job performance d...

David Cooper joins the firm in a nonlegal capacity, as head of strategy and innovation for a branding practice group. ...

A judge's ruling denying class certification in a lawsuit accusing two San Francisco law schools of puffing up job placement d...

Plaintiffs' attorneys may secure a legislative victory in a fight to force rideshare companies to carry commercial insurance f...

Revenue growth exceeded the rate of expense growth at U.S. law firms in the first half of 2014 due to increased demand and hou...

The practice, led by Lewis Feldman, may be one of the few in the state to emphasize specific knowledge of the developing world...

The unusual settlement linking plaintiffs in a shareholder class action with defendant Hewlett-Packard Co. as they unite to su...

Legal community raises nearly $20,000 for SF bar association center ...

Students Matter announced that Laurence H. Tribe, a constitutional law professor at Harvard Law School, is joining the group t...

Personal injury firm Taylor & Ring prides itself on standing up to bullies, especially in cases that tug at the heart stri...

California is one of only a dozen states that still imposes stiffer punishments for crack cocaine. ...

A recurring theme in each of the U.S. Supreme Court's six patent decisions from this past term was the court's attempt to rein...

California appears ready to offer the electric car maker relief from CEQA in hopes of landing the $5 billion "gigafactory," re...

The state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Thursday that a person involved in a serious car accident can be convicted based in part ...

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

After banks tightened up their lending activity in response to the financial crisis, a business opportunity opened up for othe...

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Senate Bill 1188, which was (thankfully) recently pulled from consideration, would have been a job killer, encouraging unwarra...

Although no civil right is absolute, if you asked the average American whether or not it is lawful or moral to take a person's...

A line cook at a family restaurant in Houston was arrested on child pornography charges last week. The Internet collectively r...

Attorneys said the city of Los Angeles' decision to pay $26 million to settle a lawsuit over its ban on napping by garbage tru...

Houston-based intellectual property boutique Novak Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg LLP is bringing in partners in Northern Cal...

The Obama administration has ordered courts to move recently arrived kids to the front of the line. But attorneys, civil right...