Lawyers from O'Melveny & Myers LLP hosted eight North Korean refugee students for a weeklong trip to California to experie...

Marlin & Saltzman LLP forged a reputation as a go-to defense firm in the 1980s and 90s, but then made a switch to plaintif...

Former California Chief Justice Ronald M. George spoke about his recently published book, "Chief: The Quest for Justice in Cal...

Mediator Daniel W. Winters focuses on construction defect disputes. Off duty, he loves constructing defective prose, and won a...

Open source company DataStax Inc. announced it has hired its first general counsel and brought on another board member as it r...

Reed Smith LLP teamed with networking group Silicon Vikings and French culture organization Alliance Francaise Silicon Valley ...

The newly minted Palo Alto office of Winston & Strawn LLP made its first lateral partner hire with intellectual property l...

The California Minority Counsel Program and the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc. legal department hosted a set of continuing...

Lawyers who help San Francisco's homeless population may soon find themselves without a home, as well. ...

Sean Kennedy's move comes on the heels of a difficult year for the office, which faced a series of funding crises related to t...

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

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

Lawyers say a more international group of investors paying top dollar for art has placed increasing importance on certain aspe...

General Counsel for Vendavo Inc. Mountain View ...

The AIA went into effect over a year ago, but many patent applicants may still be unaware of so-called "Rule 42.73(d) estoppel...

The Target data breach should be a wake-up call to California businesses to pay attention to California's security breach laws...

The remedy already exists; it is our role as lawyers to find the answer to the question, to use the laws to work out how to pr...

A group of former Howrey LLP attorneys that includes U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal recently reached an unusual settleme...

Sen. Noreen Evans will be replaced as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson. ...

With courts facing tight budgets, legislators are considering a bill that intends to save time and money by limiting how ofte...

Liner LLP intends to launch a downtown Los Angeles office after having added two real estate specialists from Sheppard, Mulli...

The 20-year veteran of the 1st District Court of Appeal and former head of the California Republican Party said he will retire...

Riverbed Technology, a San Francisco-based networking equipment maker, said Wednesday that it would not accept an unsolicited ...

When Gov. Jerry Brown announced a budget that included money for high-speed rail to be taken from a "cap-and-trade" air emissi...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could be on the hook for labor law violations against warehouse workers it didn't directly hire, a federa...

Despite reservations by some in the legal and business communities, litigation finance - the practice of non-legal entities fu...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

Requiring a departing partner to notice of an impending move is a common provision in law firm partnership agreements. But unt...

A Marin County oyster farm lost its bid for en banc review of a federal order that it must close, the 9th Circuit announced Tu...

An appellate court upheld a law banning the Law School Admission Council from notifiying law schools when students need extra ...