A ploy by Littler Mendelson PC lawyers to squelch separate wage and hour class actions by arguing their cases directly to the ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has not finalized his controversial plan to build $24 billion water delivery tunnels under the Sacramento San...

Taking many by surprise, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late Friday afternoon abruptly gave the go-ahead for same-sex m...

Law enforcement officers can seize a mailed package reeking of marijuana without obtaining a warrant, but a judge must sign of...

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

General Counsel and Executive Vice President at Orange Coast Title Co. Santa Ana ...

Despite the enormous veteran population, few lawyers have a profitable practice built around pursuing their disability claims....

Creative attorneys now use ADR to resolve even interim disputes and, in doing so, save their clients time, money and the angui...

The logical increase in marriage numbers following the high court's ruling Wednesday likely will be followed by an increase in...

A proposed change to judicial branch rules represents a small but noteworthy victory for the state's trial courts in the balan...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decisions Wednesday to dismiss the appeal to Proposition 8 and strike down the Defense of Marriage Ac...

A controversial bill to shut off state funds to charter cities that don't require contractors to pay wages close to union wage...

The free daily tabloid San Francisco Examiner has accused the San Francisco Chronicle of undervaluing its advertising prices i...

Cozen O'Connor is adding commercial litigator Matthew S. Steinberg from Greenberg Traurig LLP, according to two sources with k...

A federal judge granted Venable LLP's motion to dismiss a case Monday against the firm and one of its former partners involvin...

Six years after opening its San Diego office to capitalize on the area's transactional work, Goodwin Procter LLP plans to clos...

Six state and federal judges presented a drama Tuesday night in downtown Los Angeles titled "Chief Justice David S. Terry and ...

A two-year old state Supreme Court decision loomed large in Wednesday's ruling by the U.S. Supreme Court declining to decide t...

Ellen Pao, a former employee of Silicon Valley venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, cannot be pushed int...

Don't order the wedding cake just yet, lawyers warned following the U.S. Supreme Court's refusal Wednesday to decide the Propo...

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Here are the Biglaw tools that you can expect to be applied with increasing frequency - and force - to reallocate money and go...

Genworth Financial Wealth Management Inc. is moving its corporate headquarters from Pleasant Hill to a 50,000-square-foot spa...

As general counsel play a greater role within businesses, some companies have found it important to align the practices of its...

Do not be misled. Even in a "borrower's market," a borrower is at a significant disadvantage vis-a-vis its secured lender. By ...

While the term of the NDA is often heavily negotiated and is important, focusing attention on the term of the NDA may divert a...

Naturally, these two very different approaches to the mediation privilege lead to widely differing results. By Noah B. Steinsa...

Although now a broader test, proving obviousness still requires providing meaningful reasons for modifying or combining the p...

McDermott Will & Emery hired former U.S. Department of Justice deputy associate attorney general A. Marisa Chun to join th...

The U.S. Supreme Court's pro-arbitration ruling in favor of American Express last week hinted at the fate of class-action waiv...