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

R. Daniel Ralls has started as executive legal counsel at the Emeryville-based online real estate brokerage firm after four ye...

Baker & McKenzie LLP grabbed the head of Arnold & Porter LLP's West Coast international arbitration practice, Maria Ch...

Without dissent from Sony, Judge R. Gary Klausner took steps Tuesday to combine seven federal lawsuits against the studio into...

Saying they expect a swift and successful appeal, California immigration lawyers and advocates on Tuesday urged undocumented i...

A conflict of interest disqualifies Squire Patton Boggs LLP from representing the sugar industry in a case in which the firm h...

Judge Peter Kirwan puts a premium on organization to manage his docket of complex civil cases.

A proposal to end the use of grand juries to review police deadly-force in California is drawing a mixed response from crimina...

If a debtor suddenly hands over a cashier's check after you've incurred fees trying to enforce a judgment, proceed with cautio...

Employers and their counsel should start preparing for H-1B Visa season. By Eli Kantor

There is a common misperception that dietary supplements are unregulated, but they are actually subject to oversight under bot...

Dickstein Shapiro LLP has lost all the attorneys in its Palo Alto office, meaning it will likely become the second California ...

A 2011 study of prosecutorial misconduct in California connected San Mateo Deputy District Attorney Alfred F. Giannini with pr...

Already locked in a patent lawsuit with satellite broadband and television providers Hughes Communications Inc. and Dish Netwo...

Orange County Judge David Chaffee doesn't care for the unexpected at trial and lets lawyers know it.

The issue gained renewed currency when a Boston professor posted a law review article this month citing studies demonstrating ...

The article published Feb. 9 titled "On leave, behaving badly," is misleading in its explication of the state Supreme Court's ...

Twice in the 20th century the Supreme Court was confronted with an opportunity to reverse the 1922 ruling that baseball is not...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is right to appeal a federal district court's misguided ruling, which invalidated th...

A San Francisco federal jury awarded Open Text SA $4.9 million in damages on Friday after finding that Box Inc., a Los Altos-b...

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

LA has gone on the offensive again in a long-running fight between the city and Kern County, this time over a recent ordinance...

President Obama's speech at last week's cybersecurity summit on Stanford's campus signaled the important role Bay Area compani...

Nossaman hosts fundraiser for 49ers Foundation

History is happening now in Washington, D.C. - but only a select few will be able to witness it. With less than 200 seats avai...

A lawful permanent resident from Mexico who admitted to being a criminal street gang member when found carrying a billy club i...