In 25 contested judicial races across California, nine new judges were minted, eight kept their seats, and eight seats will be...

A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyers involved.

Federal prosecutors' decadelong pursuit of illegal internet prescription drug traffickers will play out in a San Francisco fed...

Bart Volkmer will be promoted to general counsel at cloud storage company Dropbox Inc. June 20, replacing Ramsey Homsany, who ...

Longtime federal public defender Quin Denvir died Saturday in Sacramento. He was 76. ...

A federal judge wiped out a $200 million jury verdict awarded to Merck & Co. Inc. after finding that one of the drugmaker'...

California law schools that are not accredited by the American Bar Association would have to publicly disclose postgraduate em...

The outcry that seems to support a recall of Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aaron Persky mirrors the fierce reaction ...

Opening statements kicked off a jury trial Tuesday in San Mateo County Superior Court against Imran A. Khaliq, a litigation di...

SB 443, which seeks to limit civil asset forfeiture, has been revived after a near-death experience late last year in the stat...

A superior court judge sharply questioned on Tuesday the premise held by California plaintiffs' attorneys that Private Attorne...

Despite its volatility, Judge Susan Lopez-Giss relishes her job in Los Angeles family court.

After nearly a decade of flat associate pay at the nation's largest law firms, Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP said Tuesday it...

Plaintiffs' attorneys who represent children and disabled clients on a contingency fee basis say that judges routinely undermi...

General Counsel CircleUp Network Inc. (San Francisco) ...

U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford dealt a setback Monday to Rutan & Tucker LLP attorneys trying to ban activist newsp...

Northern District U.S. Attorney Brian J. Stretch announced Monday that Genentech Inc. and another company will pay $67 million...

A type of agreement that's become the norm for music labels signing new artists despite an onerous reputation among many perfo...

A federal class action accusing Google Inc. of providing customers inferior ad placement could move forward in the Northern Di...

In the debate over what constitutes a fair hearing in campus sexual assault disciplinary proceedings, accused student John Doe...

The state Supreme Court rejected Monday a legal challenge brought by county prosecutors and cleared the way for Gov. Jerry Bro...

Santa Clara County District Attorney Jeff Rosen said Monday he wishes he had known Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Aar...

Fresno County (Fresno) ...

A roundup of recent transactions and the California lawyer involved.

An experienced political influencer in Orange County recently offered Deputy District Attorney Karen L. Schatzle his blunt ass...

Offers would affect Los Angeles, New York, Dallas, Houston and Washington, D.C. ...

Broadcom Ltd. general counsel Art Chong has joined the San Francisco office of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP as ...

The legal sector isn't necessarily growing, but it appears to have hit a comfortable plateau for the moment. ...

AB 2341 is an attempt to answer Gov. Jerry Brown's call to move judgeships from counties with too many to those with too few, ...

A senior assistant attorney general in San Diego notified the parties her office could not determine who was the initial aggre...