For the fourth straight year, enrollment in California law schools has shrunk. But the decline isn't quite as steep as previou...

In today's fast-moving business world, parties who have agreed to arbitrate disputes can be seriously damaged by delay in prot...

For years, employers have reacted to the size and breadth of employment laws and regulations in California by finding other me...

A recent decision serves as an important reminder that attorneys may be held personally accountable if they fail to adequately...

Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP handles major environmental cases and dealings with regulatory agencies, but partners at the S...

Plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph M. Alioto Jr. must pay more than $31 million of an attorney fee award to his lender, a San Francisco...

A lawyer who inserted pictures of herself into photos of celebrities and posted them on her law firm website should be suspend...

A portion of the Menlo Park office of Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe is being remodeled to foster a more collaborative wor...

Appellate practitioners are pressing state appellate justices to issue tentative opinions before oral arguments, reigniting an...

Robert A. Murray counts himself among a small cohort of professionals who do full-time neutral work in Sonoma County. ...

Browne Greene of Greene Broillet & Wheeler LLP and his wife, Leana, must trim a 40-foot hedge at their oceanfront Santa Mo...

In recent years, judges and bar associations have begun to lose their patience with uncivil attorneys. By J. Randolph Evans, S...

Divvying the litigants a dose of procedural whiplash, a court recently confessed it changed its mind regarding a legal matter ...

A judge ruled Thursday that Los Angeles County does not have to disclose its contract with the lawyer hired to carry out recom...

Entertainment lawyers voiced confidence that the film and television tax credit bill Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Thursda...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Proposition 47, which proposes reducing penalties for some drug and property theft crimes, has so far received less fanfare th...

Chief Legal Counsel for Amidi Group of Companies Redwood City ...

It has long been a practice among commercial litigators and their clients to settle with a defendant/borrower and allow a disc...

Congress should repeal the ECPA before it reaches its 30th birthday, and replace it with a new privacy statute that reflects c...

A wide gender gap persists in law firm M&A practices, despite substantial female enrollment in the law schools that supply...

Children and families have recently become a priority for the Obama administration. But not in the way one might expect. By Ro...

Federal judges across the country remain hesitant to shift fees to victors in patent disputes even though the U.S. Supreme Cou...

Alexander J. Wong, right, a partner with Jones, Clifford, Johnson, Dehner, Wong, Morrison, Sheppard & Bell LLP, received a...

An influx of inbound deals from Europe has helped fuel a significant uptick in merger and acquisition activity this year, acco...

Officials at the troubled school say they have made up most of the missed payment and are devising options to restructure the ...

An almond and cherry farm in the Central Valley has sued several oil companies alleging they are contaminating its groundwater...

OncoSec Medical Inc. announced Wednesday the hire of Merck & Co. Inc.'s senior patent counsel, Sheela Mohan-Peterson. ...

Linda E. Spiegel's goals include focusing on the concept of "low bono," in which novice lawyers counsel clients who cannot af...

The Communications Decency Act does not shield a website owner from a negligence claim by an aspiring model who used the site ...