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 ...

The case of Will Walters v. City of San Diego, currently pending before the 9th Circuit, provides a clear opportunity t...

Insolvency boutiques have noticed a decline in business, a trend that experts attribute to the nationwide decrease in bankrupt...

Mike Florio, a longtime public interest attorney turned regulator, said Wednesday he messed up in discussing which administrat...

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"No-poach" antitrust litigation has expanded from Silicon Valley tech companies to the Hollywood animation arena and, after a ...

The senior vice president and chief legal officer at San Jose-based SanDisk Corp. has left the memory card manufacturer to bec...

The group of 33 recipients is the largest to receive the distinction in the program's short history. ...

Plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph M. Alioto Jr. took the stand Tuesday in his San Francisco County Superior Court lawsuit that seeks t...

An Olympic cyclist whose wife was killed last year while biking along the Pacific Coast Highway filed a wrongful death lawsuit...

A Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC information technology employee was arrested on Tuesday on charges of illegally trad...

As the head of the largest entity of its kind in the nation, Hilary Potashner - the No. 2 defender in the office since 2012 - ...

Youth advocates are protesting the pending closure of Santa Barbara County Superior Court's Hollister Avenue juvenile courthou...

The DOJ is tightening its grip on enforcing anti-money laundering laws and spending enormous resources investigating complex m...

What counts as bullying in the workplace? While the concept may be relatively new, managers will have to undergo training on p...

A federal appeals court has rejected a $368 million jury verdict won by a Nevada-based patent holding company against Apple In...

Lori Pegg has had to learn on the fly during a flurry of trials in her misdemeanor assignment.

Vice President and General Counsel of Trulia Inc. San Francisco ...

A jailhouse snitch gave allegedly perjured testimony to put a Santa Clara County man behind bars for life for first degree mur...

At a tech company, life is good - until the tax man shows up. What used to be a free incentive to employees that was deducted ...

My work as a divorce attorney allows me to steer my clients away from the pitfalls that may come from a common assumption that...