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

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Peter Lind Shaw is presiding over an unusual hearing involving pirates on the high seas, one of a wide variety of cases he han...

Legal Counsel, Association of Bay Area Governments Oakland ...

This year has seen several important developments that will impact those seeking EB-5 visas. By David Hirson and Nima Korpivaa...

Commercial arbitration will 'never be perfect,' but the system can indeed provide a speedy, cost-effective alternative to trad...

An intellectual property panel at this week's Association of Corporate Counsel conference in Los Angeles sought to look at the...

Jill B. Easter will serve at least 60 days in jail for planting drugs on a school volunteer. Her husband, a former Stradling Y...

Experts, however, worry Pro-Se-Litigation.com could inadvertently put lawyers at risk for liability or conflict because it she...

TransPerfect Global Inc. is seeking to bar the sale of rival MotionPoint Corp.'s services that were found to infringe its lang...

This kind of question and many similar food labeling issues are increasingly on the desks of federal judges and mediators. By ...

The revelation of ongoing merger talks between Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP ...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel vacated a plea deal approved by a San Francisco federal judge of a sex offender's se...

The 5th District Court of Appeal in Fresno rejected Kathleen Otto's appeal seeking to avoid liability in the verdict against h...

From bogus websites to ripoff products, the practice has only gotten more common in recent years, speakers said. But some new ...

The Southeast Asian island is an attractive site to centralize a company's Asia operations, according to speakers on a global ...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

With two proposals before the American Bar Association that could alter the academic tenure system, more than 500 law school p...

Currently, lawyers' reputation for ethics and honesty lies somewhere between ax murderers and sea plankton. By Bradley I. Kram...

Karyn Smith has landed at San Francisco-based Peek, Aren't You Curious Inc., after leaving her previous post in August. ...

Last week, CalPERS challenged a judge's ruling finding the city eligible for bankruptcy protection. On Monday, San Bernardino ...

Everyone knows social media can create legal issues for employers. For a cautionary tale, look no further than the Twitter acc...

One recent survey found that women general counsel are expanding their presence into historically male-dominated industries, b...

The San Francisco-based neighborhood social networking company's fundraiser reportedly values the 3-year-old company at $500 m...

The statewide Association of Business Trial Lawyers is celebrating its 40th anniversary of bringing together attorneys and jud...

In a world in which big data plays an ever-growing role, in-house counsel implement document-retention and -destruction progra...

The appellate arena is quite different from the trial court, and counsel must keep this distinction in mind. By Jerry Clausen,...

A new Justice Department rule that would authorize expedited post-conviction proceedings for death penalty defendants has trig...

Attorneys representing Starbucks workers in wage case had sought $4.5M ...

Timothy A. Reardon is considered a non-ideological appellate justice and very rarely dissents.