A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

AB 15 proposes adding torture, genocide, extrajudicial killing, and other new claims to the civil code. Attorneys would have 1...

Retired Judge Kathryne Ann Stoltz's otherwise fine article has two errors: First, the article cites criminal cases as to wheth...

Programs like Obama's prosecutorial discretion programs are not new ideas. By Shoba Sivaprasad Wadhia ...

New rules - so-called "quickie" or "ambush" election rules - stack the deck in unions' favor when trying to organize a work fo...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP is moving into Shanghai with the addition of Samuel G. Williamson, a former federal ...

Corporate counsel are using fewer law firms than they were 15 years ago, according survey results collected from more than 300...

The former general counsel of Bio-Rad Laboratories Inc. has sued the research company in what he calls a "classic case of whis...

She was a giant on the federal court in Los Angeles for nearly 40 years, ruling on major complex litigation and civil rights i...

The Natural Resources Defense Council has sued the state Department of Water Resources alleging it is violating state laws as ...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

San Diego County Judge Bloom is known for helping find the middle ground in otherwise bitter battles.

Attorneys who appear before LA Commissioner Kristi Lousteau say she is like a favorite professor.

A three-way fracas among trial judges, prosecutors and defense lawyers broke out before the state Supreme Court here Thursday ...

Mediation offers an incredibly high success rate because there's less formality and more opportunity for each side to express ...

With broad bipartisan support, focused legislation designed to rein in frivolous patent litigation by so-called "trolls" is ex...

There are currently no laws on the books requiring Supreme Court justices to recuse themsleves from cases in which a company t...

A new appellate case may jeopardize efforts to impose conservation-based water supply charges, at least without a careful cost...

The assumed facts in San Francisco v. Sheehan are a bit harrowing, but the Supreme Court's ruling turned out to have mo...

The EPA and the Army Corps recently unleashed a final rule defining the scope of waters protected under the Clean Water Act. L...

Theodore E. Millard Judicial Dispute Resolution Inc. ...

The state Supreme Court on Thursday voted unanimously to overturn the death sentence of a convicted robber and murderer after ...

Sidley Austin LLP snagged powerhouse entertainment dealmaker Matthew C. Thompson from Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP, t...

Shirish Gupta, 41, will begin as full time neutral with JAMS in San Francisco on June 1, the mediation and arbitration service...

Provident Funding Associates LP will pay $9 million to settle allegations from two government agencies that it charged higher ...

Wearable technology company Fitbit Inc. was sued Wednesday by its larger rival Jawbone, creating a cloud of uncertainty for in...

Andrew K. Powell joins Medivation Inc. from executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary position at Inte...

Principal at the Water and Power Law Group PC in Berkeley, Richard Roos-Collins has been involved in more than 50 settlements ...

Fresno County agreed to settle a class action brought by detainees in the county jail Thursday. The agreement sets in place a ...

Apple Inc. has secured a defense win against patent holder Unwired Planet LLC a week before the litigants were scheduled to se...