The Obama administration is considering San Mateo Superior Court Judge Beth Freeman to fill a longstanding federal court vacan...

Stanford Law School appointed Phillip Malone as the new director and professor of law at the soon to launch Juelsgaard Intelle...

The firms represented South San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company Theravance Inc. in its $1 billion royalty agreement ...

Lawyers representing Silicon Valley technology companies applauded the U.S. Supreme Court's narrowly-tailored decision in a pa...

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A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

The bottom line: More and more companies are finding themselves in hot water over employment law issues for using unpaid inter...

A recent decision by the 4th District Court of Appeal creates new traps for litigants filing statutory writ petitions. By Robe...

Harder Mirell Abrams LLP, one of the newest arrivals to Tinseltown's entertainment litigation scene, was founded by a group of...

The U.S. attorney's office in the Northern District is losing one of its top chiefs, right at a time of a hard hiring freeze a...

State Bar leaders have unanimously voted to push ahead with a proposal that would kick up annual attorney dues $50 and siphon ...

California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris lost her first attempt at using a 2003 law requiring companies to provide their p...

Federal weapons research lab Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC wrongfully terminated five employees in its 2008 layoffs...

An en banc panel of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit handed down a highly anticipated ruling Friday t...

Workers who earn piece rates rather than hourly wages can sue for missed rest breaks, an appellate panel ruled, ordering class...

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP represented Vernon-based designer denim company True Religion Apparel Inc. in its $835 ...

Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc.'s top legal counsel announced Friday he will be departing the social networking giant less th...

Los Angeles County deputy public defender Luis J. Rodriguez was the only one who threw his hat in the ring to become the agenc...

After nearly a year as a judicial nominee in the Northern District of California, William H. Orrick III's wait to join the fed...

The only civil judge in Yolo County, Daniel P. Maguire juggles cases that run the gamut.

In Judge Laura Priver's courtroom, social media use during jury trials is no laughing matter.

I have been very impressed by Dean Rachel Van Cleave's leadership at Golden Gate University, but I was disappointed by the lac...

One lawsuit and two bills now before the state senate address California's largely unexplored transgender civil rights laws. ...

Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of The Cheesecake Factory Inc. Calabasas ...

Upon reading the article "Porn Lawyers Lambasted by Judge Over Trolling," May 8, something occurred to me... By Irwin (Chip) C...

Golden Gate Land Holdings upheld a trial court's decision to allow a public agency to pursue an eminent domain action -...

Perkins Coie added former Blank Rome lawyer Sara L. Chenetz to the firm's Los Angeles office as a partner in the financial tra...

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Peer courts have been a staple in California courts for decades, allowing the punishments for low-level juvenile offenders to ...

On the hunch that most busy lawyers don't spend much time reading social science journals, I thought I'd summarize some of the...