Chief Justice Ronald M. George has appointed a first-of-its-kind group focused aimed at enhancing the relationship between Cal...

A team of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher attorneys led by Palo Alto-based partner Joseph Barbeau represented St. Jude Medical Inc...

Oakland-based solar power startup BrightSource Energy announced Thursday it had raised $150 million in new financing, saying i...

President Obama on Thursday named two Californians - U.S. Magistrate Judge Anthony Joseph Battaglia and Santa Clara County Sup...

California's school finance system unconstitutionally deprives students of an adequate education and must therefore be reforme...

How does a semester's worth of law school credit without the onus of taking a semester's worth of classes sound? Too good to b...

Lawsuits surrounding Farrah Fawcett continue to fly nearly a year after her death, now drawing in a top entertainment law firm...

Labor and employment mediator and arbitrator Barry Winograd likes to get an insider's perspective of his clients' lives at wor...

In a decision that may affect what cases lawyers decide to file, a federal appellate panel held Thursday that some statutes le...

Daniel Kolkey of Gibson Dunn and Chuck Ragan of Huron Consulting Group say current discovery rules fail to fully appreciate wh...

The Los Angeles Urban Renewal Network, a coalition of local professionals seeking to revitalize under-served communities, host...

Dan Lawton concludes his story about how baseball changes when club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner.

The California Supreme Court is taking up the issue of whether the governor has the power to furlough state workers in tough e...

Betsy Handler and Greg Spiegel of the Inner City Law Center urge the Los Angeles City Council to temporarily suspend the July ...

Marin Superior Court judge Lynn Duryee reviews a collection of stories authored by Justice Arthur Gilbert of the Court of Appe...

For the first time in nearly a century, the California Supreme Court addressed an issue that seems basic to wage-and-hour law ...

The employment rate for 2009 law school graduates, at 88.3 percent, is the lowest it's been since the mid-1990s, according to ...

Partner Paul Sieben and associates Sofia Lou and Robert Liu represented Acclaim Games Inc. in the game developers' acquisition...

Mark Foster, a San Jose-based partner at Bergeson LLP, has been reappointed to a government committee that will advise U.S. Se...

Promises, promises. California's pension systems made plenty of them during flush times and now jurisdictions are struggling t...

A major geothermal energy project broke ground this week in Imperial County, made possible by a $400 million debt and equity f...

The city of San Diego has been handed a setback by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, which has lifted a stay banning politic...

Weekly wrap up of law firm moves and real estate related transactions.

California lawmakers are working to close a loophole in state law that protects "social hosts" who provide minors with alcohol...

The legal battle between a renowned cancer center and its doctors escalated this week, with the City of Hope Medical Center fi...

Dan Lawton imagines a time where baseball club owners sign on a lawyer-commissioner to negotiate deals, reform rules and tweak...

When a general counsel's negligence resulted in a $4 million default judgment against his company, California courts stepped i...

With the June primary just around the corner and no clear frontrunner in the state's attorney general's race, political analys...

To truly improve mining safety, mine owners as well as the board of directors must understand that it pays to emphasize safety...

Biotechnology companies going public this year know that to make money they have to spend money on lawyers and financial advis...