With the state unemployment rate hovering at around 10 percent, a growing number of Californians who are asking judges to dism...

Cooley attorneys in Palo Alto counseled privately owned Perceptive Software in its acquisition, announced Friday, by printer m...

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

What is the most important issue facing copyright law today? Corey Field of Ballard Spahr ponders the question.

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

A case now heading to a California Court of Appeal highlights the question of whether people with behavioral disabilities are ...

Defense lawyers trying to kill a federal shareholder class action against Verifone Systems Inc. over a series of accounting er...

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas delivered the keynote address at Whittier Law School’s commencement ceremony o...

Roughly 500 people attended the Los Angeles County Bar Association’s annual luncheon on Tuesday at the Omni Hotel in downtown ...

The California Supreme Court on Thursday denied review of a case in which the city of Hermosa Beach is fighting a years-long l...

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...