Government
Attorney General Kamala Harris seeks to block initiative that calls for killing of gays
By Paul Jones
Attorney General Kamala Harris on Wednesday sought relief from the state judiciary from her office's duty to issue title and s...
Judges and Judiciary
Justice to retire after more than 30 years on the bench
By Melanie Brisbon
After a legal career that spanned more than 50 years, Justice Norvell "Fred" Woods, of the 2nd District Court of Appeal, Div...
U.S. Supreme Court, Constitutional Law, 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Justices should review SF gun law
The U.S. Supreme Court should review a case challenging an ordinance requiring guns kept in the home be "stored in a locked co...
California Supreme Court
State Supreme Court to review attorney fees in class actions
By Matthew Blaken
The case represents a culimination of the work for class action plaintiff attorney fee crusader Lawrence W. Schonbrun. ...
Solo and Small Firms
Veteran San Francisco antitrust plaintiffs' lawyer splits with Zelle Hofmann
By Laura Hautalan
Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
For Google Inc., the legal hits from a federal antitrust probe that ended five years ago just keep coming. This week, the tech...
Whether she knows it or not, Meili Cady's new book "Smoke" places her squarely in the evolving and maturing national conversat...
Plaintiffs who accused Apple Inc. and several app makers such as Twitter Inc., Yelp Corp. and Electronic Arts Inc. of invasion...
California Courts of Appeal
Dismissal of charges appropriate in child molestsation case, appeals court rules
By John Roemer
A Kern County prosecutor falsified a suspected child molester's police interview transcript, leading a judge to dismiss the ch...
Fish & Tsang opens in Redwood City, its second office ...
Litigation
San Diego firm files first wrongful death suit tied with Hepatitis A outbreak
By Kibkabe Arayan
Gomez Trial Attorneys and Ron Simon & Associates of Houston filed the lawsuit Monday in connection with a nationwide Hep...
It is a story of hope and faith, despair and redemption, but it's also a story of two immigrants who grew up in similar, gan...
California's anti-torts business lobby held an annual meeting with small business owners Tuesday. Unlike last year, the CJAC a...
Law Practice
Leading antitrust plaintiffs' lawyer leaves Zelle Hofmann
By Riley Guerin
Francis O. Scarpulla, a leading antitrust plaintiffs' attorney, is leaving Zelle Hofmann Voelbel & Mason LLP to start his ...
Labor/Employment
Ellen Pao's lawyer calls Kleiner Perkins a boys' club, but defense fires back
By Craig Andersonn
Ellen Pao's attorneys told jurors that her former employer, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, was a boys' club where women...
Superior Court Judge Bernard Schwartz sees the courtroom as an extension of the person on the bench.
Entertainment & Sports
Hollywood optimistic about future China deals
By America Hernandez
Co-financing of American films will increase, but any studio acquisitions are five to 10 years away, lawyers said. ...
San Francisco Superior Court Judge Lillian Sing's career has been defined by a series of firsts.
General Counsel Alliant Insurance Services Inc. San Diego ...
Earlier this year, China's foreign investment regulatory authority, the Ministry of Commerce, released a draft of the new Fore...
Nearly a year after Delaware opened door for fee-shifting bylaws, debate rages on. ...
Ethics/Professional Responsibility
Lesson for all: never cede control to the client
By Kevin Lee
Patent litigator Howard N. Shipley may have avoided sanctions from the nation's highest court, but his very public ordeal will...
Attorney Robert C. May III parlayed a pre-law school internship at L.A.-based Telecom Law Firm PC into opening and becoming m...
California Courts of Appeal
State appellate panel affirms life sentence for juvenile
By John Roemer
Ruling comes over a strong dissent that accused the majority of letting the sentencing judge avoid his duty to take account of...
Officers may rarely think about being sued because lawsuits rarely have negative ramifications for their employment or their b...
Litigation
Judge's punitive damages ruling unlikely to spur settlement in Pao trial
By Philip Johnson
As Ellen Pao's gender discrimination case approaches closing arguments, attorneys following the landmark lawsuit doubt Superio...
Judges and Judiciary
Chief justice ignores audit, emphasizes internal reform efforts in State of Judiciary address
By Paul Jones
Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye didn't mention a critical January audit report in her State of the Judiciary Address to t...
A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.
Attorney Stephanie M. Caballero, whose twins were born through a surrogate, has spent the last decade helping others become pa...