Trial attorney Raymond P. Boucher announced Thursday that he left the Los Angeles-based firm of Khorrami Boucher LLP. ...
Bankruptcy
Judge approves Stockton's bankruptcy plan, leaves employee pensions intact
By Paul Jones
Just a month after declaring public employees' pensions can be trimmed in bankruptcy cases, a federal judge Thursday spared em...
Lawyers say retired San Francisco County Superior Court Judge David Garcia is now less intimidating as a mediator than he was ...
Solo and Small Firms
Motel business attorney prepares case for the highest court
By Kibkabe Arayan
It's not often that a case fought by a sole practitioner goes all the way up to the U.S. Supreme Court, but Los Angeles attorn...
Charles Schwab has accused a Los Angeles-based law firm of libel for allegedly linking his investment company to a late Indone...
The San Francisco-based firm maintains a focus on reading and understanding the documents in a case or ensuring every brief i...
Kimberly-Clark Corp. falsely advertises that its high performance medical gowns protects users from the Ebola virus and other ...
Corporate counsel see a significant need for improvement in e-discovery management, according to an inaugural survey by BDO Co...
The Northern District U.S. attorney's office widened its case against executives of the defunct United Commercial Bank Thursda...
Community News
Attorney wins fortitude award at San Bernardino bar installation
By John Michael
Attorney wins fortitude award at San Bernardino bar installation ...
Sunnyvale-based Infinera Corp. has appointed an experienced semiconductor company lawyer as its new senior vice president, gen...
California Supreme Court
State high court justice candidate staying quiet before Tuesday's election
By Emily Green
Before he writes a single judicial opinion, Stanford Law School Professor Mariano-Florentino Cuellar is up for confirmation to...
Davis Wright Tremaine LLP on Wednesday named San Francisco-based partner Jeffrey P. Gray as its new firmwide managing partner....
Time is sometimes said to be money, but the rules governing litigation funding deny the point. By Ragesh Tangri and Dave McGow...
Litigation
Dignity Health settles with federal government for $37M over false insurance claims
By Kevin Lee
San Francisco-based Dignity Health, the fifth-largest hospital system in the nation, has agreed to pay $37 million to the fede...
Corporate
Orange County judge wrestles with Allergan hostile takeover bid
By Dominic Fracassan
A Santa Ana judge must distill arguments among Allergan, Valeant and Pershing Square Capital over whether the actions taken by...
Civil Rights
Immigration centers in the West must screen detainees for mental illness, judge rules
By Kylie Reynolds
It comes as a practical follow-up to a landmark permanent injunction issued by U.S. District Judge Dolly Gee last year that re...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Firms with strong aviation law and Federal Aviation Administration regulation practice groups have been pivoting to highlight ...
General Counsel, Chief Privacy Officer and Vice President of Grand Rounds San Francisco ...
Under California law, a "foreign corporation" is prohibited from "transacting intrastate business" in California until it has ...
If the explosive expansion of pro bono legal help by law firms was the story of the 1990s and 2000s, then pro bono participati...
Earlier this year, the U.S. Supreme Court effectively put an end to the era of business method patents that followed a 1998 U....
Elder Law
Elder abuse is a viable claim in insurance bad faith cases
By Ben Armisteadn
Many practitioners on both sides of the bar appear to either be ignorant of the financial elder abuse statute or think they ca...
In the developed world, many peoples' wages have declined or remained stagnant this century in the face of low yet persistent ...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
JAMS opens private courtroom in LA office
By Kibkabe Arayan
The nation's largest ADR provider will allow clients to use the facility for arbitration, mock trials and other legal proceedi...
Government
New chief of state attorney general's office criminal division named
By John Roemer
A senior prosecutor in Attorney General Kamala D. Harris' office has been promoted to chief of the criminal division, the offi...
Education
Thomas Jefferson law school announces deal to slash debt on bonds
By Don Debenedictisn
Financially struggling Thomas Jefferson School of Law will sell its $100 million-plus building to creditors and lease it back ...
Law Practice
Report: Less market share but more money to outside firms
By Alison Frost
Though law firms continue to lose market share to growing corporate legal departments, spending on outside counsel is up. ...
A Los Angeles judge dismissed Monday the lawsuit brought by former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega who claimed his appearan...