Former Judge Michael Ballachey doesn't mince words, and he doesn't dawdle.

Since Democrats took control of Congress in 2006, both the House and the Senate have pressured Occupational Safety and Health ...

With two years until he's termed out of office, state Assemblyman Dave Jones has his eye on a new prize: state insurance commi...

The layoffs come as two other San Francisco-origin firms are dissolving. Orrick's layoffs are in the corporate, real estate an...

Former colleagues and clerks of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Senior Judge Warren J. Ferguson remembered him Wednesday as ...

The other shoe dropped last week when a state appellate panel published an opinion that nixed a mediated class action settleme...

A team of attorneys from Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman advised Hong Kong-based Asia Alternatives in securing $950 million of...

A former Townsend and Towsend and Crew patent litigator will rejoin the firm as a partner.

The Federal Circuit's recent 'Bilski' decision engages the issue of invention and transformation, writes Michael M. Rosen. - F...

In what appears to be a first-of-its kind lawsuit, San Mateo County sued Lehman Brothers officials and its auditor Thursday to...

Kamala Harris, right, smiles at Coni Binaley, left, campaign services coordinator, as she files papers Wednesday to run for Ca...

Two large teams of Thelen attorneys are off to their new firms, with Howrey scoring 40 attorneys from Thelen's prominent const...

Why do we assume that lawyers dislike law so much that if any one of the majority of us could just get a score big enough, we ...

A blogger who rides the Metrolink train to work and moderates an online forum to vent criticism of the rail service may face j...

We should encourage President Obama to send the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights to the Senate f...

San Francisco commercial landlords are suffering the effects of the financial crisis. With banks going belly up, financing's b...

In an 11th hour decision, jailed ex-private investigator Anthony Pellicano pulled the plug on his Wednesday sentencing hearing...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unlikely Wednesday to conclude that a town in Utah violated the First Amendment rights of a re...

A recent state Supreme Court case could have significant ramifications for determining when environmental review is necessary ...

A split Supreme Court Wednesday ruled in favor of the U.S. Navy in a dispute over the environmental damage caused by the use o...

WilmerHale has landed a former Heller Ehrman attorney as counsel in its securities department.

Three electronics companies agreed to pay $585 million in criminal fines as part of a guilty plea for conspiring to fix prices...

"We're trying to be creative," Los Angeles legal recruiter Delia Swan, left, said of the slowed market for lawyers. She is pic...

The old adage “you can’t have your cake and eat it too” applies not only to everyday life, but is reflected in a time-honored ...

Although the science seems simple, the reality is that people's lives are as dependant on the accuracy and dilligent work of f...

A class of retired NFL players has won $28.1 million from its union after a jury returned a verdict awarding compensatory and ...

It is no secret that the economy has hit a big speed bump and some of the biggest law firms have taken some of the biggest hit...

While environmentalists have not always been the biggest fans of the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, they are vigorously ...

Alec Baldwin’s book, “A Promise to Ourselves,” is anything but flattering to all of those who work within the family law commu...

Callaway Golf Co. - flush with victory in a hotly contested patent infringement case against rival Acushnet Co. - will be aski...