Author Jim Collins identifies five major stages of the decline of a major business organization, including the critically impo...

The popular conception is that defendants with two strikes would not receive life sentences in future cases if their third fel...

The Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County announced Wednesday the election of Stacey K. Keare as the new president of its boar...

Former Nixon Peabody LLP partner David M. Tamman, convicted this week of helping an ex-client cover up a multimillion-dollar P...

The U.S. Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday released their long-anticipated guide meant...

California bankruptcy lawyers are closely following an incoming set of federal regulations that would require them to track an...

Fulbright & Jaworski LLP and international law firm Norton Rose announced their merger Wednesday, pushing up their ranks t...

Dole Food Co. has been slapped with a potential class action lawsuit over claims it cheated consumers by hiding ecological dam...

Total pay for in-house lawyers at all levels increased modestly last year, according to a survey released Wednesday. ...

San Diego Superior Court Judge George "Woody" Clarke, best known for specializing in the use of DNA evidence in court, includi...

San Francisco-based automobile service Uber Technologies Inc. is the target of a proposed class action filed Wednesday allegin...

More than two months after promoting the judicial branch's head lobbyist to an administrative position, Chief Justice Tani G. ...

Defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP is seeking compensation exceeding $13 million for its work on the Los Angeles Dodgers...

Signaling the importance he places on swiftly filling federal bench vacancies, President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated s...

In the latest in a string of local courts cutbacks, Los Angeles County Superior Court announced Wednesday it must slash up to ...

After receiving threats of a lawsuit over an alleged violation of the Establishment Clause, Riverside city officials have said...

Duane Morris LLP helped negotiate a series of transactions for the State Bar, including its acquisition of an office building ...

For the first time since the recession hit, a small group of property managers are planning to develop untapped land in the In...

I love the Christmas season. For those who love technology, as I do, Christmas does come early. By Paul Kiesel of Kiesel Bouch...

Lenders are seeking backdoors to full recourse through strict enforcement of the terms of non-recourse carve-out guaranties. B...

Is looking only to big projects, at the expense of quickly pursuing a number of smaller projects, prudent? By Paul Kaufman of ...

Las Vegas-based trade association The National Conference of Personal Managers on Monday filed a federal lawsuit challenging t...

On the eve of California's first auction in its groundbreaking carbon trading market, the California Chamber of Commerce sued ...

Attorneys at the Menlo Park offices of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP scored a huge win by helping a small Canadian ph...

In what could be a sign of a housing market recovery, the apartment market is heating up, and lawyers are lining up to get a p...

Following the announced retirement of its longtime general counsel, Applied Materials Inc. has named a new chief legal officer.

Eastman Kodak Co. is working out a deal to sell its digital imaging patent portfolio for about $525 million to an unnamed buye...

The unsecured creditors in the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP bankruptcy are seeking permission to sue Dewey's former management team...

The housing market's recovery, observers agree, relies heavily on continued job growth and careful steps in the marketplace, a...

Fewer companies are using 'poison pills' to thwart corporate takeovers, attorneys say.