In the deal to be finalized later this month, Boston Scientific Inc. will acquire Stradling client Vessix Vascular Inc. as par...

A federal judge gave Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. a glimmer of hope last week when she agreed to hold a hearing on the South K...

The State Bar Court has recommended the disbarment of Greenbrae lawyer Sharon L. Lapin over charges she engaged in a sophistic...

The court's conclusion is a little hard to reconcile with the fact that the wallscape had been in place for 22 years and no on...

Attorney General Kamala Harris delivered the keynote address Friday at the annual convention for the Consumer Attorneys of Cal...

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP added Stephen Reiter as counsel in San Diego. Reiter, a member of the health and life s...

A developer hoping to remove a judge from presiding over litigation related to its massive housing project north of Los Angele...

A San Diego judge ruled that graduates suing Thomas Jefferson School of Law over allegedly exaggerated employment data had not...

Lawyers on both sides of the fence attribute the increased filings to a growing awareness of workplace disability rights among...

When Brian S. Kabateck is sworn in Saturday as the new president of the Consumer Attorneys of California, he'll have one year ...

In discussing the individual mandate, Professor Einer Elhauge uses logic and a Nobel laureate to convey the fact that its inhe...

We take a look back at 20 of the most significant moments in the law's history. By Mark Goldowitz and Evan Mascagni of the Cal...

The simplest solution is to reduce the number of death penalty cases in the system by narrowing the list of special circumstan...

Two weeks ago, a judge sentenced Rajat Gupta to two years in prison and a $5 million fine for insider trading. By Michael W. E...

Former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona this week asked U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford to vacate or amend his 5 1/2 y...

At an October event, "What Makes a Leader?" in the San Francisco office of the Equal Rights Advocates, executive director Nore...

U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. and representatives from a host of law enforcement agencies met this week to discuss mortgage ...

A bill that went into effect last month enables women who offer to carry a child for another couple to obtain their own legal ...

A San Francisco federal judge issued a temporary restraining order blocking parts of Proposition 35, a new law that California...

On Nov. 2, Southwestern Law School recognized Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP partner Russell Frackman and two other atto...

A San Jose magistrate judge awarded sanctions against Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for discovery squabbles befo...

Google Inc. is gearing up to defend itself next week against Microsoft Corp., just one in a slew of legal battles the company ...

On Oct. 12 Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP attorney Leslie McAdam was awarded the California State Bar President's Pro Bono Ser...

Martin Quinn, a former lawyer who works as a mediator at JAMS, says he has to work a little harder than the retired judges there.

Earlier this week, Netflix Inc. responded to famed activist investor Carl Icahn's takeover attempt by adopting a poison pill w...

Business law firm Stubbs Alderton & Markiles LLP has opened an office in Santa Monica's busy Third Street Promenade in hop...

A group of judges and other state officials that must determine how to equitably fund courts has to figure out how to compare ...

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

With the failure Tuesday of a proposition to abolish the death penalty, the state Supreme Court is facing the specter of becom...

Opponents of class action waivers won a victory this week when a San Francisco administrative law judge decided a fitness comp...