As the new State Bar president, Craig Holden says the bar's mission of public protection should encompass helping new lawyers,...

Senior vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary of Accuray Inc. Sunnyvale ...

Simply put, the exemption is a blunt tool for ensuring good state government. By Daniel G. Swanson and Blaine H. Evanson ...

Insurance agent or insurance broker? In everyday parlance these two terms are often used interchangeably, but the difference c...

Despite robust market dynamics, frothy equity market valuations are straining traditional valuation metrics. By Ryan A. Murr ...

The nation's largest police legal defense fund and the now-defunct police advocacy law firm Lackie Dammeier McGill & Ethir...

California lawyers are buzzing about a New York federal judge's ruling this week that subscription website TVEyes has "fair us...

The state Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal brought by a group of retired judges and their heirs who claim they were...

The state Supreme Court appointed Catherine D. Purcell as new presiding judge, and the high court elevated Judge Richard A. Ho...

Along with speeches, lunches and dozens of continuing legal education courses, the State Bar's annual meeting proceeding throu...

Retired Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP partner and community leader Richard "Dick" Odgers died of a long-term illness Sun...

Firms targeted by clawback cases in the Howrey LLP bankruptcy gained ground Tuesday when a bankruptcy judge dismissed several ...

Japanese e-commerce giant Rakuten Inc. tapped Fenwick & West LLP to handle its all-cash acquisition of San Francisco-based...

A recent decision finding FedEx employees to be employees contradicts numerous other cases holding the opposite. It also "unra...

It was the lure of a fresh economic justice advocacy model and maybe the appeal of a larger firm that drew Mark D. Rosenbaum a...

A state appellate court has handed a victory to the Coastal Commission in a dispute over whether it can impose time limits on ...

Richard A. Kramer is known for not being afraid to hand down rulings that ruffle feathers.

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The increasingly popular Immigrant Investor Program has hit a speed bump, potentially derailing momentum built up over the las...

Had the court allowed the case to go to trial, every franchisor doing business in California would have had shifted to it unli...

If you had to pick the most famous trademark in the entire world, what would it be? For millions - if not billions - of human ...

Online lodging service Airbnb Inc. has been slapped with a proposed class action in San Francisco County Superior Court, alleg...

Sources confirmed this week that Hilary L. Potashner, the current chief deputy federal public defender here, will succeed Sea...

For years, father and son Steven and Christopher Harmon cultivated one of the best known criminal defense practices in the Inl...

Now general counsel in California are wondering how the ruling might be applied in their territory someday. ...

Phyllis Kupferstein, one of the founders litigation powerhouse Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, hopes her new boutiq...

As economic factors and consumer choices spell doom for many big box locations, landlords and lawyers must consider carving up...

Residents of Shasta County will see their last satellite courthouse close this month, leaving just a main facility in Redding ...

Defense attorneys typically fight to hold ground in California's Legislature. But this session they surprised some observers ...

A 9th Circuit panel will consider Electronic Arts' claim that the players are out of luck because their case runs afoul of Cal...