This election cycle, California lawyers are choosing to give legally limited donations directly to candidates and political pa...

If you ask your lawyer to obtain your foreign bank records, your lawyer generally can't be forced to hand them over to the IRS...

For now, districts should be permitted to continue efforts to use data-driven analysis to evaluate teachers without the inform...

The court reinstated the conviction of a man who killed his son in the process of "play wrestling" with him. It was the second...

The state Supreme Court justices needed less than 20 minutes to decide, unanimously, to compel an Arizona group to identify th...

Employees at San Francisco County Superior Court have reached a contract agreement that included several concessions from cour...

In back-to-back arguments Monday over who owns the 80-year-old Superman character — DC Comics or the two comic strip writers w...

General counsel across the country are taking new measures to bring down costs, according to a survey released Monday by Altma...

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

Venture capital-backed U.S. companies have begun to share more "key metric" data, according to a report last week by Wilson So...

A district court judge in Wisconsin made good Monday on her threat to cancel an anticipated trial between Apple Inc. and Googl...

A federal judge in Los Angeles intends to delay the high-profile acquisition of investment management firm TCW Group Inc. by p...

Intellectual property work continues to be in high demand throughout California and the nation.

Arizona's unusually restrictive abortion law got a hostile reception Monday at oral argument before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court...

Judges, judicial branch staff and trial courts craft document urging vendors to bid to replace courts' aging filing systems.

The federal appeals court today will hear oral arguments on the never-ending fight over who owns the 80-year-old superhero. ...

While the result was positive for employers, the board failed to draw clear lines as to what speech is and is not protected. B...

Assisting proposed business partners to avoid conflicts is a service that is in increasing demand, particularly from a corpora...

Child abandonment is a crime, but abandoning custodial rights is not. In fact, such irresponsible parents cannot even be held ...

Juxtaposed with our current system of campaign finance, the Inzunza case leaves the public with contempt for that system. By D...

A San Francisco man won $6 million in punitive damages Friday in a jury trial against frequent asbestos defendant Kaiser Gypsu...

The Law School Transparency group hopes to undercut U.S. News & World Report rankings with a new online service to help st...

The U.S. Supreme Court will consider arguments today about whether trademark owners can withdraw those marks after they alread...

Venture capital investing decreased 12 percent in dollars and 5 percent in number of deals compared to the previous quarter, a...

The U.S. Justice Department will monitor polling stations across the country -- including in Riverside and Alameda counties --...

A Beverly Hills attorney accused of squatting in a vacant home appeared in Riverside County Superior Court Friday facing charg...

A fraud lawsuit filed by former Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP partner Henry C. Bunsow against the defunct firm's leaders will be shi...

The Internal Revenue Service will appeal a judge's approval of bankrupted solar company Solyndra's restructuring plan because ...

After a big legal defeat in its bid to build one of the state's largest single development projects, Newhall Land and Farming ...

A new unsecured creditor in the Howrey LLP bankruptcy sued 302 former firm lawyers Thursday in an attempt to recoup money dire...