After 24 years in office, San Bernardino City Attorney James F. "Jim" Penman has found himself embroiled in one of the state's...

A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed Kent Robert's claim of malicious prosecution against his former employer for its r...

Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...

Judge Alan Jaroslovsky knows bankruptcy, and he expects lawyers before him to know it, too.

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

As California gears up to distribute funds to local authorities for realigning the prison system, some counties are raising ob...

Vice President and General Counsel of The Cooper Companies Inc. in Pleasanton ...

A former research attorney, Judge Jed Q. Beebe thinks long and hard from the bench.

A reader responds to "Supreme Court sends arbitration case back to state high court." ...

Before converting to a flexible purpose corporation or a benefit corporation, consider how this will affect key relationships....

Are confidentiality agreements really iron-clad? By Carol A. Gefis of Archer Norris PLC ...

Why predictive coding deserves to become the new default in discovery. By Daniel B. Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers ...

The legal industry added just 400 jobs in the month of October, in keeping with national employment numbers across public and ...

A federal appeals court panel on Friday affirmed a decision that a host of defendants represented by an Irvine-based partner ...

Daniel Cooperman, former general counsel for Apple Inc., was recently elected to the board of advisers for SFL Data Inc., a Sa...

At long last, Chicago-based Groupon Inc. is a public company, debuting as the largest IPO of a U.S. Internet company since Goo...

The Supreme Court is expected to decide as early as today whether to review the case of a would-be TV producer who sued Pilgri...

Despite uncertain market conditions, third-quarter venture capital investment in the clean tech sector was strong, bringing i...

The State Bar Board of Governors voted Friday to formally begin discussions that ultimately could lead to the bar and its disc...

Federal approval of California's plan to reduce health care spending on poor residents could spell the end of a U.S. Supreme C...

Fenwick & West LLP added Andrew P. Bridges as partner in San Francisco. He focuses on intellectual property litigation. Br...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Although state and federal laws do allow in rare circumstances for serving defendants by electronic means, via email or social...

Several environmental groups sued the federal Environmental Protection Agency Thursday over its decision to grant air quality ...

In further fallout from a nasty political fight, the state's judicial watchdog agency has punished former judge and current Ri...

Mediator Denise Asher isn't afraid of hard work, but she knows first-hand the toll that litigation can take on a person. ...

In search of a California-based platform with better firmwide collegiality, intellectual property litigator Andrew Bridges has...

The November 2012 election is still a year away, but unions are already gearing up to fight a ballot initiative that threatens...

The renewable energy industry is lobbying hard for the federal government extend a popular cash grant incentive, but recent sc...

Four Iranian brothers accused of terrorism, jailed for more than three years and then cleared and freed cannot sue the governm...