Water main breaks are increasingly common as our infrastructure ages. Many seek recovery from insurance, but don't forget abou...

A former colleague of Ellen Pao at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers testified Tuesday that his wife bought the book of ero...

Deemed one of the top DUI attorneys on the Central Coast, Darryl W. Genis was slapped with a monthlong suspension and two yea...

The San Francisco Police Department has not shaken off a retaliation lawsuit filed two years ago by a former top internal affa...

A group of defendants led by Zynga Inc. and Electronic Arts Inc. won an appellate court decision Tuesday that deemed a compute...

Apple Inc. has won the latest round of a five-year patent infringement fight against a patent licensing entity after the U.S. ...

NCAA's argument that student players can't be paid gains some traction. ...

San Francisco County Judge Peter J. Busch moves quickly to juggle a busy probate calendar.

The falloff in the number of people starting law school appears to be showing up as a decline in the number of new lawyers bei...

A Delaware court recently granted minority stockholders appraisal rights following the consummation of a merger, even though t...

By the end of May, the court is expected to decide whether such reverse-payment agreements violate the Cartwright Act, and to ...

One of the basic tenets learned in law school is there must be a controversy ripe for adjudication to maintain a cause of acti...

The only proper basis for a free speech claim is whether government is attempting to prevent an audience from receiving certai...

One of the lone nonunionized groups of flight attendants is alleging wage and hour violations in putative class action. ...

David Aronoff and Lincoln Bandlow, former partners at Lathrop & Gage, will join the firm's First Amendment and media defen...

Although Hong Yen Chang died in 1926, the court ruled to admit him, saying it was acting to right "a grievous wrong" from "a s...

The amended $11.2 billion cash agreement to buy Salix forced Endo this week to pull its unsolicited offer of $11 billion in bo...

General Counsel of Covered California Sacramento ...

Litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan has tasked its associates and counsel with getting involved in at ...

The state Supreme Court is considering whether to disqualify the entire Monterey County Superior Court bench from involvement ...

In making the switch from bar to bench, Judge Cynthia Sevely has found ways to keep moving.

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

A Catholic school agrees to pay a former teacher $4 million after a jury found that he was wrongfully terminated after blowing...

Environmentalists sue Contra Costa County claiming it failed to analyze the environmental impacts of a Phillips 66 refinery pr...

A recent column missed one additional problem with designating a decision as nonprecedential: the practice is entirely unconst...

A recent column asserts that "tough on crime" safety measures are "little more than poorly thought through efforts to pad the ...

I understand Anthony Caso is a professor of law. And so I expect him to know the difference between a ruling that "something c...

It was disappointing albeit not surprising to see Ventura County District Attorney Greg Totten's factual, analytical and irref...

Starting May 26, the USCIS will begin to accept applications to issue employment authorization documents to some spouses of fo...