San Francisco-based private equity firm Golden Gate Capital relied on counsel from Kirkland & Ellis LLP in the sale of por...

The 9th Circuit recently adopted a rebuttable presumption that an order compelling arbitration stays, but does not dismiss, an...

The California Supreme Court is considering reversing course and OK'ing automatic sex offender registration for people convict...

After years of district court judges remanding wage and hour class action litigation to plaintiff-friendly state courts, some ...

The ethical implications of the Mayer Brown surveillance revelations are not something to dismiss lightly. By Edwin B. Reeser ...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Judge Trina Thompson likes to use visuals to communicate with litigants in her courtroom.

Attorneys appreciate Judge Franklin Bondonno's direct, compassionate approach in drug court.

The conclusion reached by an appellate court in a recent case undermines the basis for the enactment of appraisal statutes and...

For those accustomed to thinking about the leaders of the women's suffrage movement as prim society ladies, Myra MacPherson's ...

Will the state Legislature attempt to adopt a state-wide version of San Francisco's Family Friendly Workplace Ordinance this l...

Sedgwick LLP's Asian Pacific Islander Lawyers Forum and the Filipino Bar Association of Northern California hosted their fourt...

Kwixuan Maloof, a managing attorney in the San Francisco public defender's office, was honored Feb. 7 by the Santa Clara Count...

Hundreds of Inland Empire lawyers and judges gathered Wednesday evening to hear guest speaker Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sak...

The four-partner firm Heffernan Seubert & French LLP are all alumni of DLA Piper's East Palo Alto office, where they first...

Morrison & Foerster LLP has snagged the co-chair of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP's technology transactions and s...

Restored funding will also return CJA panel rates to pre-sequestration levels. ...

The American Bar Association honored retired corporate attorney and business executive Wendy C. Shiba of Los Angeles with the ...

Three members of Loyola Law School's seven-member board of directors visited the school's downtown Los Angeles campus Feb. 5 t...

A group of attorneys seeking to change the rules for admission to practice law in California were denied relief after a federa...

Winston & Strawn LLP has grabbed structured finance specialist Daniel Passage from Bingham McCutchen LLP, Winston confirme...

Retired Orange County employees lacked the evidence to show that a longtime health care benefit qualified as an implied contra...

Charlotte Walter Woolard, a longtime San Francisco County Superior Court judge, said Thursday she is retiring at the end of he...

A San Jose federal judge on Thursday granted conditional certification to a class of Hewlett-Packard Co. technology workers wh...

In a complex plan, the U.S. government wants to erase all benefit Bazaarvoice Inc. achieved when it bought its largest competi...

To strip otherwise eligible California citizens of this fundamental right, when they are neither in state prison nor on parole...

Teeing up the next major gun rights issue for the U.S. Supreme Court, a divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Thu...

A large number of law schools now offer students classes in passing the bar exam, some taught by faculty, many run by commerci...

When it comes to your oppressive peers, there are certain things that you should not do. By Paul Fisher and Juli Adelman

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.