The nonprofit organization will welcome a new president and vice president along with seven new board members. ...

State Bar leaders began exploring how to replace fired executive director Joseph L. Dunn, including whether the replacement mu...

Wireless phone service provider Cricket Communications Inc. has agreed to a settlement with federal prosecutors, ending a disp...

General counsel of AdRoll Inc. San Francisco Size of legal department: 1 lawyer ...

Harry Dorfman considered a show business career but found his true calling in the courtroom.

Project finance attorney Adam S. Umanoff will move from Akin Gump to take the top legal spot at Edison International in Januar...

Twitter Inc. was unable to persuade a Northern District federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses the soci...

James H. Pooley, a longtime Silicon Valley litigator turned international diplomat, has moved into private consulting and arbi...

In an opinion this fall, the 2nd District Court of Appeal refined the limits of title insurance policies. ...

Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors receiving German pensions related to their imprisonment in Nazi-controlled facilities...

Some literary estates might want to pay attention to a little-known termination quirk of the 1909 Copyright Act. By John M. Gr...

Leaders at Locke Lord LLP and Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP announced Monday their partnerships had approved the planned merger o...

More than 100 healthcare, pharmaceutical and other companies - as well as legal counsel - could face vexing securities law iss...

From activist to prosecutor, corporate lawyer to the bench, Judge Lucy Koh is making a big impact.

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Santa Barbara County Judge James Voysey relishes the wide variety of criminal cases he handles.

Lawmakers are hurrying to amend last year's AB 1159 law to respond to the president's recent executive actions. But questions ...

California places substantive and procedural restrictions on lenders' right to deficiency judgments upon the foreclosure of re...

This coming Dec. 15, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will engage in a rare en banc rehearing of a case that, culturally ...

With the recent release of the documentary "Citizenfour," we must ask, is Edward Snowden the valiant whistleblower or the cont...

Local police increasingly use high-tech surveillance but without clear policies or public debate about what they're doing, why...

Once a customer reaches a certain level of data usage, AT&T has been throttling data speeds for smartphones, according to ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit will consider the appropriate standard for determining damages for design pa...

Splitting with the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, an appellate panel has struck a blow to Motorola Mobility LLC and other ...

A probable third jury trial between Mattel and MGA about Bratz dolls and trade espionage could hinge on whether MGA's window t...

Described by colleagues as serious and understated, state Supreme Court nominee Leondra R. Kruger's advocacy before the U.S. S...

James Herman, Santa Barbara County's assistant presiding judge, is active locally and statewide.

Increasingly popular workplace technologies facilitate employees' ability to access data remotely, but also from their new com...

"Drones and Targeted Killing: Legal, Moral, and Geopolitical Issues" is a compilation of 15 authors' views on U.S. drone polic...

If it goes without saying that attorneys should always be prepared, then why am I saying it? Unfortunately, experience, of cou...