If the California Supreme Court upholds a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the justices are still stuck wit...

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A man wrongly imprisoned for rape can sue the city of Long Beach and the police officer who allegedly faked evidence against h...

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In a handful of recent decisions, courts have permitted public schools to punish lawful student speech occurring entirely off ...

In "Dealmaking in the Film and Television Industry," attorney Mark Litwak arms filmmakers with information that could help sav...

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U.S. District Judge Maxine Chesney in San Francisco rejected an environmentalist group's argument that the Coast Guard's duty ...

Juvenile dependency court judges can't use the threat of jail to force drug-using parents into treatment, the California Supre...

The California Court of Appeal has launched a mini onslaught of recent decisions about specific personal jurisdiction and its ...

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

Ralph Baxter, who has been at the helm of Orrick for 19 years, is considered to be the pioneer of the San Francisco firm's int...

John "Jay" Welsh oversees the legal matters of JAMS, the largest private alternative dispute resolution provider in the world....

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As law firms struggle to meet diversity goals set by corporate counsels, Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman says it believes it h...

President Obama announced Friday his intent to nominate John Trasviña, who's the current president and general counsel for the...

Renowned San Francisco sexual harassment attorney Philip Kay took the stand in State Bar Court Friday morning and defiantly re...

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James H. Hastings, a justice with the California Court of Appeal for 14 years who wrote the landmark decision giving patients ...

After serving 29 years of a murder sentence for sitting in a car while her husband shot and killed a store clerk, Connie Keel ...

Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher announced Friday that 36 staff members would be let go from the firm. No attorne...

Google has agreed to pay $20 million in cash and advertising credits to settle a long-running lawsuit alleging the search engi...

Federal prosecutors Friday dismissed a long-running securities fraud criminal case against the former general counsel for San ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Allan D. Hymer sports a no-nonsense style on the bench that’s won him praise from some but...

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