Attorney General Kamala Harris has joined a lawsuit against BP Plc, alleging in San Francisco County Superior Court that the o...

Before the tenure of departing Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of wiretaps was generally relegated, as if by gentlemen's...

Attorneys are closely watching the verdicts rolling in from the few opt-out cases that have gone to trial as they decide wheth...

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

Joseph L. Dunn will no longer be the executive director of the State Bar, the bar Board of Trustees announced Thursday. ...

Preet Bharara, the top federal prosecutor in Manhattan, defended the common use of plea bargains in criminal courts this week,...

In 2015, California will become the second state in the nation to require employers to provide paid sick leave. How does paid ...

Recently, 37 antitrust and economics professors submitted a letter urging the FCCommission and the Department of Justice to bl...

Ironically, while the Department of Homeland Security continues to push its "see something, say something" campaign, the gover...

After four years of litigation, Mayer Brown won a summary judgment ordering the daughter of prominent Hong Kong property devel...

General Counsel of Social Finance Inc. ...

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed three to the state appellate courts in San Francisco and Fresno on Wednesday, including former Stat...

Just short of three years since a vacancy on the Eastern District of California court was announced, President Obama Wednesday...

DHL Express (USA) Inc. and its legal team at Dechert LLP favorably resolved a patent case pursued by a non-practicing patent h...

Littler lawyer Rechtschaffen inducted into law practice group ...

Gov. Jerry Brown appointed 12 new judges to state superior courts on Wednesday, including six in Los Angeles County. ...

The association will host resources online for attorneys interested in representing unaccompanied immigrant minors. ...

The state should have conducted an environmental review of more than 200 drilling permits near Bakersfield, claim the Sierra C...

Enterprise software companies tap Goodwin, Sullivan, Cooley and Fenwick for $100 million initial public offerings ...

A controversial 9th Circuit ruling that an actress held an independent copyright interest in an anti-Islamic film, "Innocence ...

Latham involved in All Stars project ...

Several former presidents of the state's tort lawyers bar, undaunted by a voter shellacking of an initiative to raise the medi...

In a sparse statement Thursday, the California Bar announced it had fired Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn. Almost immediatel...

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.

Who owns the moon? At a more basic level: Who decides who owns the moon and who enforces that decision? By Maria-Vittoria "Giu...

Courts are expanding theories of agent liability. These theories extend to a broader assortment of agents - even lawyers. By W...

Almost two years ago, the state Supreme Court agreed to hear an appeal of a decision concerning when a company may assign its ...

Indemnity provisions, contractual liability coverage, and additional insured requirements are frequently used contractual risk...

Employers may not be liable for acts giving rise to a claim against an employee, committed at work, but undertaken for the emp...

California's insurance commissioner has taken on the workers' compensation insurers who have employed side agreements to bypas...