A 2010 California law targeting paparazzi who drive recklessly failed in its first test in court Wednesday. ...

Dublin-based Santa Rita Jail is the target of a lawsuit filed Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court alleging the jail disc...

A nonprofit biomedical research sought to have a $58 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. reinstated Thursday in oral arguments...

A federal judge considered a revised proposed class action settlement to resolve a privacy lawsuit against Facebook Inc. on Th...

A peacemaker at heart, Craig S. Meredith disliked his job as a business litigator so much he left the law to become a teacher....

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that environmentalists cannot seek damages after the government temporarily allowed ...

Rejecting defense arguments that the law was murky, a San Francisco jury found three men guilty Thursday on all counts of cons...

Wednesday's revelation that the Los Angeles County Superior Court would impose massive budget cuts looked, at first, like an e...

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

First, we have the so-called fiscal cliff, comprised of an incredibly long list of expiring tax breaks (including the Bush Era...

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...