San Francisco's South of Market Area is a bustling district home to a burdgeoning number of emerging growth companies, and lar...

In his timely article, Alex Craigie offers sound, economical suggestions for proceeding with litigation in our state's increas...

Perhaps the State Bar instead needs to set aside the legal fiction that a law degree and a passing grade on the bar exam are s...

The adage, "failing to plan is planning to fail," certainly sticks when it comes to business succession planning. By Michael B...

With less than 10 months remaining before the more salient and highly publicized provisions take effect, it appears that healt...

The objective of this article is to review the rules that allow defendants to have arrest records sealed and destroyed under P...

An Oakland man walked out of prison Friday after serving nearly seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit.

King & Spalding added intellectual property attorneys Kenneth L. Steinthal and Joseph R. Wetzel to its San Francisco office.

Stanford Law School plans to launch a new think tank focused on policy development in international human rights and global so...

A group of Bay Area-based lawyers has sued one of the state's largest plaintiffs' law firms, alleging it tried to hide assets ...

Stanford Law School will bolster its faculty ranks this summer with the addition of a constitutional and common law professor,...

A 9th Circuit motions panel granted an emergency request to keep Marin County's Drakes Bay Oyster Co. open for business while ...

Entertainment companies can get technology by building it in-house, acquiring it through strategic acquisition or partnering w...

The controversial effort to reform the state's bedrock environmental protection law has been plunged into uncertainty in the w...

A class of foreign national workers will settle the federal suit with their employer, Indian company Tata Consultancy Services...

A judge's role as the "gatekeeper" who controls trial testimony doesn't empower her to squelch qualified expert opinion, a 9th...

Reforming a law permitting suits against businesses that fail to post warnings about dangerous chemicals and changes to how ju...

Litigants - both patentees and accused infringers - should welcome the rule changes. By Randall E. Kay

Lawyers render a service so they do not have to collect sales taxes; however, they are subject to paying use tax when t...

Score decently on the LSAT, go to University of La Verne College of Law free. It's a good move for the struggling school, but ...

Under a new law that went into effect Jan. 1, all companies that pay commissions to employees providing services in California...

The Department of Labor estimates that 1.2 million establishments employing 91.1 million workers will be affected by the new r...

Hank Greenberg was more than a spectacular baseball player. He was, as the subtitle of John Rosengren's biography states, "The...

The Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce honored Mayer Brown LLP's Michael "Mickey" Kantor at its 125th Anniversary Inaugural ...

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

On Feb. 6, the Asian Pacific American legal community honored the appointments of five new Asian Pacific American law professo...

San Diego County Bar Association members enjoying the new member lounge area at the new headquarters, the Bar Center at 401.

Under a law to reduce lawyers' control over their own regulation, the Senate Rules Committee named Sacramento lawyer Glenda Co...

A longtime pro bono women's rights advocate has left private practice to serve as the chief legal counsel for Planned Parentho...

Federal prosecutors indicted a Montara man this week for allegedly masterminding a bankruptcy fraud scheme that defrauded a nu...