When you hear lines like, "We the jury find the plaintiff guilty," it is hard to resist the urge to overnight a cease and desi...

Submitted just before the legislative deadline this month, two new bills show plaintiffs' attorneys and business interests see...

A federal judge Thursday grilled attorneys over how to ascertain who would be a member of a massive class of email users whose...

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

Washington, D.C.-based Patton Boggs LLP is in merger discussions with international firm Squires Sanders LLP, the firms confir...

About a dozen people using laptops to write the California Bar Exam have complained a software problem interfered with their a...

Reed Smith LLP this week became the latest firm to be dragged into the ongoing Howrey LLP bankruptcy case after the defunct fi...

The patent licensing trial pitting Realtek Semiconductor Corp. against LSI Corp., the first dispute of its kind in California...

The nation's highest court's latest decision drew sharp rebuke from California criminal defense attorneys and privacy advocate...

A judge has tentatively sided with the San Diego County Water Authority in a battle in which it accuses the Metropolitan Water...

A body dedicated to reducing prison population could forge much-needed reform to California's system, legal academics say. ...

Google Inc.'s refusal to honor an imperiled actress' pleas to take down an incendiary YouTube.com video drew harsh words Wedne...

U.S. District Judge Lawrence K. Karlton, who ruled in 1995 that California prison conditions violated the U.S. Constitution, i...

The California Supreme Court's three-year old decision in Howell v. Hamilton Meats has led many personal injury plaintiffs to ...

In recent decades, the high court has opined that inhumane prison conditions equal cruel and unusual punishment, and a slew of...

The bankruptcy court needs workable mechanisms to enforce the underlying spirit of the bankruptcy code. By Steven Gubner and M...

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

Recent cases have led many defense attorneys to argue that the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act needs to better define hacking, wo...

Ultimately, we will need a new set of social norms to govern our use of drones, where they can fly, and how much privacy we ca...

"Shadowy," "invisible,' "secretive" and "unregulated" are all terms that have been used in recent years to describe the data b...

Companies' increasing reliance on the collection and use of data to stay competitive has demanded that attorneys keep pace on ...

The left-leaning majority at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has the votes to reject en banc review of controversial pro...

An unusual suit against District Attorney Michael Ramos and other county officials may play out in state court after the 9th U...

Efforts by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg may not avert an upcoming campaign fight over medical malpractice suit p...

The justices will hear two petitions Wednesday asking the court to take direct action to discourage dubious patent lawsuits.

Despite recent data breaches having intensifyed concerns over privacy, one of the data privacy movement's main goals - empower...

The law would strip the cities of state funds if they don't comply with union-friendly wage rules.

Veteran antitrust litigator James Donato and San Mateo County Superior Court Judge Beth L. Freeman won approval after being no...

Programs that fail to take these issues into account can compromise proprietary information, increase tensions with employees,...

San Francisco mayor Ed Lee recently signed legislation expanding limits on use of criminal history in employment screenings. B...