California courts may be in for another tough fight for increased funding in the upcoming state budget negotiations, under pro...

Legal observers said a new set of pro-employee laws in San Francisco passed Tuesday night are likely to be difficult to challe...

Comments by a Los Angeles Unified School District attorney who argued that a 14-year-old girl could consent to having sex with...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has summarily rejected an effort by a group of teachers to overturn California's "agency...

The U.S. attorney's office in the Eastern District of California played a major role in helping the Justice Department bring i...

An internal investigation characterizes former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn as an untrustworthy leader whose explanations...

A roundup of recent transactions and the attorneys involved.

Darrell Steinberg's replacement, Los Angeles lawmaker Kevin DeLeon, may yet prove a sympathetic ear for tort attorneys, and is...

After a decision by the 9th Circuit affirming the right of local governments to require manufacturers to operate drug disposal...

A "no-contest," or in terrorem (Latin for "in fear"), clause is a provision in a will or trust that threatens to disinherit a ...

Recruiters call the exodus of six high powered partners a coup for Latham. ...

Provisions of a California law requiring sex offenders to report their Internet identities and information to law enforcement ...

Seattle Genetics Inc. announced Tuesday the appointment of a California lawyer as its new general counsel, executive vice pres...

Erik S. Edwards rejoined Cooley LLP in Palo Alto as a partner in the business department after three years working in-house as...

Plaintiffs who seek to keep their cases in California state courts received a blow Tuesday from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

Attorneys said the award would likely be cut in post-trial motions because of a U.S Supreme Court ruling that limits the amoun...

Software company Persistent Systems looked to Greenberg Traurig shareholder Thomas Klein, its longtime outside counsel, to fil...

Consumer Attorneys of California recognized several lawyers for exemplary work over the past year at an annual awards dinner S...

The online streaming giant wants to ensure that music publishers will continue to particpate in a 73-year-old way of licensing...

Two powerful legislators in Sacramento have waded into the controversy surrounding the firing of State Bar Executive Director ...

The report characterizes former Executive Director Joseph L. Dunn as an untrustworthy leader whose explanations were not belie...

Tulare County Judge Antonio A. Reyes takes pride in the hard work that led him to the bench.

John E. Munter, a mainstay judge in San Francisco County Superior Court's complex litigation department, announced his retirem...

He was called class clown in high school. As judge, Stanley Boone is better cast as circus director.

New tort bar president Brian Chase struck a defiant tone Saturday night at an annual gathering of California's leading plainti...

What's going to happen now that almost two-thirds of California voters passed Proposition 47, which requires misdemeanor sente...

A recent U.S. Supreme Court petition seeks reversal of a decision by the Federal Circuit that prevented a public interest advo...

Former Secretary of State Madeline Albright recently called the world "a mess." Given all the things happening, it might be an...

In Bill Watterson's "Calvin and Hobbes," there's a game called Calvinball, where you make up the rules as you go. In the real ...

The majority of Bingham McCutchen LLP's partners in California have been admitted to Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP as part o...