There are very few cases in which it is impossible for any email data to be forensically retrieved or restored. By Daniel B. G...

"What Works for Women at Work," by Joan C. Williams and Rachel Dempsey, is a comprehensive guide for navigating office politic...

Landowners routinely have to give up something to obtain a discretionary permit. And while there are limits, those limits only...

Chuck Reed said his only recourse for changing the language is to sue. The ballot measure aims in part to make certain parts o...

The 56th annual Grammy Awards came to Los Angeles Sunday, and a number of the city's law firms joined in the festivities by th...

Smaller county courts across the state stand to benefit from changes to a workload-based funding allocation method that the Ju...

The Justice & Diversity Center of The Bar Association of San Francisco kicked off its 2014 "It Starts With A Day" communit...

Eric D. Vandevelde has moved to the Los Angeles office of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP as of counsel, the firm announced Th...

California prosecutors and defense attorneys hailed separate moves by the U.S. Justice Department and the Senate Thursday to l...

Steven C. Glickman, the 2014 president of the state chapter of the American Board of Trial Advocates, plans to launch a series...

Former California Chief Justice Ronald M. George joined 2nd District Court of Appeal Justice Richard M. Mosk for a conversatio...

The falloff in the number of civil jury trials in California has largely matched the drop in revenue to the state's courts, Ch...

The tech giant's willingness to part with Motorola Mobility for $2.91 billion late Wednesday plainly suggests the real value f...

The Association of Business Trial Lawyers hosted a presentation Tuesday on the negative public perception of attorneys. Stanf...

After nearly 18 years at the Silicon Valley legal powerfouse, James C. Otteson has established an intellectual property firm t...

Fearing that already unsustainable groundwater pumping in places like the Central Valley will now accelerate at an alarming ra...

A magistrate judge has sanctioned Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP and its client Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for vi...

To get the best out of mediator Jonathan H. Cannon, lawyers say, you have to trust him. ...

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

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

The Tax Reform Act of 2013 seeks to require all law firms and other personal service businesses with annual gross receipts of ...

Executive Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel of Panavision Inc. Woodland Hills ...

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

The state wants to overturn two rulings by a Sacramento County Superior Court judge prohibiting the rail authority from sellin...

Eight U.S. attorneys were appointed to an advisory committee designed to give U.S. attorneys a voice in the Justice Department...

A senior judge with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed Wednesday to take a class action that turned into a hot potat...

A federal judge in Virginia has awarded Vringo Inc. a 1.35 percent running royalty on Google Inc.'s AdWords program in a decis...

More than three-quarters of general counsel now spend the bulk of their time advising executives and helping steer strategy, a...

Both sides disagreed about the scope and impact of the government's role in policing corporate activities during a discussion ...

Deal is the latest in a string of U.S. buys for the Chinese personal-computer manufacturer. ...