A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling put an end to an interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute that for the past 30 years has al...

The University of San Francisco Law School will have a new dean in June when John Trasvina, assistant secretary for Fair Housi...

Latham & Watkins LLP is helping guide an estimated $100 million initial public offering by Scottsdale, Ariz.-based Colony ...

Attorneys representing Charles Schwab Corp. sued several financial institutions in San Francisco County Superior Court last we...

A judge on Friday terminated Melvyn I. Weiss' federal supervised probation for racketeering charges, saying Weiss had "learned...

Attorneys with Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are defending a San Jose judge's decision to deny Apple Inc. a pivotal injunction,...

Retired state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno is being vetted for an ambassadorship to Belize, according to multiple so...

Compelled by court orders, the state officials unveiled a plan to reduce the prison population by more than 9,000 inmates. But...

Like her earlier studies in anthropology, Rebecca Omens still pores over the context of each case.

Jobs in the legal sector jumped by 2,100 in April but were still less than the 3,500 jobs the U.S. legal industry added betw...

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

Bingham McCutchen LLP added Richard de Bodo, Siegmund Y. Gutman, Andrew V. Devkar, Olga Berson and Bruce D. Kuyper as partner...

John Slawson, a 20-year commissioner, hopes his third application for a judgeship is his last.

The legal malpractice case presents a number of interesting substantive and insurance coverage issues that must be addressed i...

In a recent case the Federal Claims Court held that discounted stock options constitute a deferral of compensation and, hence,...

Opinions of counsel are useful only where the court finds the accused infringer acted with "an objectively high likelihood tha...

It is no longer enough for the broker simply to provide a copy of the inspection report upon request or make copies available ...

Companies may not have to pay waiting-time penalities if they reasonably believed a union contract waived certain types of fin...

Two former Dewey & LeBouef LLP executives moved to strike the estate trustee's declaration in support of a the proposed se...

UC Irvine School of Law honored six Orange County federal judges on April 27 at its inaugural Public Service Awards Dinner. La...

Plans to renovate and expand Universal Studios have been circulating for more than 20 years, but frequent changes in ownership...

Cooley LLP hosted a welcome event for its new corporate partners, Kevin K. Rooney and Louis Lehot, on April 25 in the courtyar...

Hogan Lovells partner Dean Hansell was awarded the first Founders Award from The Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation...

San Francisco-based plaintiffs' firm Sher Leff is a giant slayer in its obscure world of water contamination litigation. The t...

Faced with a decline in public funding, the free legal advice and representation service that helps Holocaust survivors, the p...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP's Women Lawyers Group hosted, in conjunction with Step Up Women's Network, 50 high...

Paul Hastings is poaching the head of the intellectual property department in Baker Botts's Palo Alto office, Christopher W. K...

Investors and businesses could benefit from proposed legislation to cancel a retroactive tax increase on investment returns on...

A bill to amend Proposition 65 - the state's hazardous chemicals notification law - was changed Tuesday to significantly narro...

Southwestern Law School has appointed its first female dean in its 100-plus year history, the Los Angeles-based campus ann...