A federal judge is set to rule that a California-accredited law school can't hide its bar exam pass rate to prospective students.

Regardless of the fact that the need for privacy and cybersecurity legal specialists has exploded in California, general couns...

Kirkland & Ellis LLP patent litigator Christian Chadd Taylor left the firm this year and has no intention of coming back, ...

The first full week of testimony in $20 million bellwether litigation against Toyota Motor Corp. over alleged sudden accelerat...

State and federal court judges and lawyers say they expect Sherri R. Carter to display the same fearless, tough approach in he...

Sheldon Siegel's latest book, "The Terrorist Next Door," follows Detective David Gold and his new partner as they hunt a bombe...

Activists gathering signatures for various ballot initiatives can now rest assured that their activity is protected under Cali...

Given the general heightened presence of unions in California generally, we can expect California employers may be a future ta...

The American Bar Association on Aug. 9 presented San Francisco-based attorney Elizabeth J. Cabraser an award for the outstandi...

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

A judge ruled Thursday that Toyota Motor Corp.'s advertisements about its cars' safety can play a role in the first sudden acc...

San Diego-based Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP has bolstered its Menlo Park office with three more lawyers, brin...

A host of dignitaries from various branches of government spoke and helped break ground at the future site of the new federal ...

The Landau Lawyers League softball playoffs have drawn to a close for the spring-summer season, with local attorneys having ta...

At an oral argument last week, a 9th Circuit panel appeared ready to end California's Broughton-Cruz rule barring arbitration ...

The chief judges of 87 U.S. district courts have written to congressional leaders warning of serious trouble with the administ...

The worst wounds in litigation are self-inflicted; this is not the time to be impulsive or to overreact. By Robert E. Gipson

Corporate lawyers say nuanced legal questions about a section of the JOBS Act allowing general solicitation for securities off...

Senior Vice President, legal and public affairs; General Counsel and Secretary at Provide Commerce Inc. San Diego ...

As our world grows smaller attorneys who are able to understand and work with cultural nuances will be more competitive in an ...

The law should distinguish between minor crimes and more serious offenses that should trigger deportation. By Jeff Rosen ...

State Senate Judiciary Committee member Noreen Evans, D-Santa Rosa, a strong ally of trial attorneys and an influential member...

Seyfarth Shaw LLP represented John Hancock, the U.S. division of Toronto-based Manulife Financial Corp., in its $135.5 million...

Two state agencies that regulate health care take opposing views on a law that governs coverage of autism treatments. The rift...

San Francisco-based online microlender BillFloat Inc. announced Wednesday that it had named a prominent consumer credit advoca...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates lawyers in California counseled a special committee to the board...

Attorneys for the family of a woman killed when her Toyota Camry accelerated and smashed into a tree appeared ready to drop th...

The distribution of funding for programs such as self-help legal services is essentially flat from last year.

A bill to cut off state funding to charter cities that don't pay prevailing wages passed a vote by the Assembly Labor and Empl...

New York attorney James R. Silkenat took over this week as president of the influential American Bar Association. He spoke wit...