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.

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

Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Aria Systems Inc. San Francisco ...

Judge Pamela P. King took a break from law to raise her kids - all of whom turned out to be lawyers.

It's a state of affairs that has union critics indulging in schadenfreude. The very labor leaders who championed the Affordabl...

Several recent decisions suggest that advertisements and products which refer to actual people may be more risky than their pr...

Until recently, it would have been unlikely to hear about a large verdict in a same-sex harassment case. By Polina Bernstein a...

As long as capital punishment exists, some offenders will receive less punishment than they deserve. Some may even get away wi...

Minor league ballplayers have filed a class action against Major League Baseball and several of its franchises, alleging the l...

The Palo Alto-based firm hired two additional Sidley Austin LLP partners to its Los Angeles office, adding an energy and infra...

The entertainment giant elevated Ana M. de Castro, who has worked in the company's legal department for 18 years, to deputy ge...

Carl C. Holmes, a former Orange County public defender who spent more than 30 years in the office and was known for his passio...

The conservative wing at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rose up Wednesday to bash liberal colleagues who granted habeas...

The proposed rule barring judges from membership in the Boy Scouts is dangerous and misguided. By Paul A. Hoffman ...

There is plenty of guessing over whom Brown will pick to replace Justice Joyce L. Kennard, who announced Tuesday she will step...

A state lawmaker has called for an audit of the Administrative Office of the Courts in what he says is an effort to promote ef...