Earlier this month, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released 2011 data showing a great disparity among Califo...

In a win for California attorneys with Covington & Burling LLP and the American Civil Liberties Union, a federal judge det...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP selected partner Chris McNevin as head of its environment, land use and natural resources ...

Water districts serving the parched Central Valley farmers sued a state body on Friday alleging its move to protect the Sacram...

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

Google Inc. has suffered another setback in its efforts to use Motorola Mobility LLC patents to gain leverage in its smartpho...

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

Experts say Attorney General Kamala Harris' recent lawsuit against the financial giant is a well conceived case that strikes a...

Despite the Judicial Council's historic plan so far eliciting nothing but praise from county courts and legislators, courts th...

The lessons of the Paris Peace Accords of 1973 are timeless and true today, no matter what the stakes in our own cases. By Dan...

The documents cover the period from 1965 to 1985 and detail accusations against 1,247 scout leaders involving 1,622 child vict...

There has been a proliferation of suits where the coverage counsel provide substandard advice to defend claims which obviously...

These open issues, which could have a significant impact on biotechnology companies, must await to be resolved until another d...

In their new book, authors Michael Avery and Danielle McLaughlin discuss how over the last 30 years, the Federalist Society ha...

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

The Bar Association of San Francisco's young lawyer division, the Barristers Club, hosted a benefit art show at Morrison &...

The State Bar Court has recommended that a San Diego lawyer be suspended from practicing law for 90 days for inappropriately s...

The same panel of appellate judges that earlier this year handed Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. control over the Superman cha...

James R. Silkenat, president-elect of the American Bar Association, welcomed the 2013 class of Golden Gate University School o...

The federal receiver for the state's prison health care system filed a report Wednesday blasting state officials and claiming ...

From left, associates Alison Kleaver and Anna Stancu of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP take a break from the asse...

From left, Ara Babaian of the Encore Law Group; Neal Salisian, partner with Salisian Lee LLP; sole practitioner Sean Higgins; ...

On May 15, California Western School of Law's Access to Law Initiative hosted a reception for attorneys interested in particip...

Attorney General Eric Holder will not have to be deposed to explain why the state secrets privilege was invoked in a case abou...

The Impact Fund, a Berkeley-based organization that provides funding and legal support for civil rights, environmental justice...

The Multicultural Bar Alliance of Southern California held an event at Southwestern Law School on May 16 called "A Celebration...

U.S. officials must give explicit reasons - not merely cite a vague anti-terrorism statute - for denying a visa to the Afghan...

State Senate and Assembly budget subcommittees voted unanimously to provide the branch with another $100 million in funding - ...

It's a fact of life that every year millions of specimens are sent to crime labs for analysis. In recent years tales of proble...

Tomar Mason, who retired from the San Francisco County Superior Court bench in 2011, is adjusting quickly to work as a mediato...