Ruling in the first of 24 disciipline plea deals remanded by the state Supreme Court, a State Bar judge imposed a much tougher...

A showdown in the long-running Bratz doll case – as Mattel Inc. appeals MGA Entertainment Inc.'s $310 million trial court judg...

Former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell, a current DLA Piper partner and former chairman, will help mediate a series of settlem...

Law firms facing "unfinished business" lawsuits from the Heller Ehrman LLP estate claim that they should not be held liable be...

State Bar prosecutors experienced an apparent setback Tuesday, when one of their ethics trial witnesses - an incumbent judge -...

California municipalities can continue to pursue claims of accounting fraud and securities violations against former executive...

California's judicial branch is preparing to review state trial court funding, a 15-year-old system praised by some for helpin...

Former employees of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory won the right late last week to bring age discrimination complaints...

Sandra Margulies maintains close friendships on the appellate bench, keeps her own counsel

A State Bar case alleging several acts of misconduct by a Del Norte County district attorney that could lead to his disbarment...

Conservative estimates indicate a commercial surrogacy market to the tune of $2.3 billion annually, with at least 25,000 child...

The order reflects a tacit acknowledgement of the realities of globalization that leave the federal government unable to polic...

Anonymous contribution to anyone - person or corporation, liberal or conservative - is not speech under any meaningful definit...

Using strikingly different imagery, the new presidents of the California Judges Association and the State Bar urged lawyers an...

A Boston-based law firm is making a second go at the Bay Area with a couple of recent San Francisco-based lateral hires, inclu...

A closely watched court battle over a YouTube video will get a major test today, as a San Jose federal judge will hear argumen...

A California egg farmer appealed to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last week in an ongoing effort to overturn a 2008 an...

Four years after Heller Ehrman LLP filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, its estate continues to be locked in lawsuits i...

Six weeks after the branch's top lobbyist took on an administrative role, the second-in-command at the Judicial Branch's lobby...

Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo announced it has hired a new partner in its growing education practice for its Pleas...

Two cases generated an abnormally high level of activity from the frequently unanimous state Supreme Court, with eight separat...

Softbank Corp. agreed to purchase 70 percent of Sprint Nextel Corp. for $20.1 billion, the largest-ever foreign acquisition by...

Some legal experts are questioning whether police officers testifying in red light camera cases is causing them to improperly ...

Judge Tami Bogert learned during her election she enjoys broad dialogue about the judiciary.

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

A proposition to require genetically modified foods to be labeled could result in legal challenges and spur a wave of litigati...

David Walgren had a celebrity-studded career as a county prosecutor before joining the bench.

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Dole Food Co. Inc. Westlake Village ...

Two new court decisions make public private partnerships even more attractive to cities. By Penny Cobey of McKenna Long & ...

The State Bar has charged a Southern California lawyer with 20 counts of charging advance fees for mortgage modification work ...