Law schools are offering many more clinical, writing and other programs meant to give students practical, real-world experienc...

A bill backed by plaintiffs' attorneys that sought to preserve consumer class actions died in the state Assembly Judiciary C...

San Francisco-based enterprise software company Mashery Inc. announced Tuesday the addition of its first general counsel. ...

A San Jose federal judge has denied a request by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to stay the injunction she issued last week blo...

A Department of Justice effort to aggressively seek damages against companies accused of negligently setting wildfires in Cali...

Now that Toshiba Corp. has been ordered by a jury to pay $87 million to plaintiffs who sued over a scheme to fix LCD panel pri...

General counsel for AVOS Systems Inc. San Mateo ...

New-York based Madison Square Garden Co., owner of the New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden, announced last week that it'...

When San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harold E. Kahn begins a typical day, he knows his work will continue long after...

After 50 years in law, including a decade on the bench, Justice Richard Mosk still asks, 'What's next?'

Bay Area patent lawyers are hailing news that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is coming to Silicon Valley, but the actual...

A court in Germany ruled that the heirs of Hans Prym had the right to the return of one of the most important Mercedes-Benz ca...

The ruling party's name is "Communist," but as far as the economy is concerned the philosophy we heard was "let's find what wo...

One week after the city of Stockton voted to proceed toward bankruptcy, Mammoth Lakes is following suit. ...

A hypothetical BAU tied neither to existing conditions nor reasonably likely conditions will only mislead the public and decis...

The bidding war for Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Inc. appears to have been won by Dell Inc. ...

Attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. argued Monday that a federal judge should stay a preliminary injunction blocking t...

Ropes & Gray LLP lost two of its well-known Northern California litigators to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in San Franc...

The majority ruling generated strongly worded dissents from the court's liberal wing, Justices Kathryn Werdeger and Goodwin Li...

As California becomes the first state to implement legislation similar to much of the national mortgage settlement reached thi...

A jury today found that electronics manufacturer Toshiba Corp. participated in a scheme to fix the price of LCD panels, and aw...

Pressing its claim that the government eavesdrops illicitly on U.S. citizens, a privacy rights group on Monday released testim...

Yahoo Inc. General Counsel Michael J. Callahan is leaving the Sunnyvale-based Internet company after nine years as its chief l...

The global market for initial public offerings, down both in volume and value compared to last year, shows little sign of impr...

Employers should start preparing to comply with the law. By Callan Carter of Fisher & Phillips LLP ...

In a properly functioning democracy, elections are term limits enough. By Paul Kujawsky ...

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

As the environmental toll from marijuana cultivation grows, law enforcement at the state and federal level are stepping up eff...

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary NetApp Inc. (Sunnyvale) ...

Mark R. Hughes, founder of nutritional company Herbalife International of America Inc., has been dead for more than a decade, ...