If your client wishes to appeal, consider hiring an appellate specialist. But if your client insists you write the brief, what...

California attorneys at Weil, Gotshal & Manges advised RF Micro Devices Inc.'s board of directors on the company's planned...

A party host planning to charge guests for alcohol may want to think twice about doing so, under a state Supreme Court decisio...

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

Walter Liew's attorney described the defendant and his former company as underdogs, fighting the battle of a Silicon Valley s...

In its early state, SB1429 declares only the intent of the Legislature "to bring interested parties together to develop a legi...

Gibson Dunn partner Theodore J. Boutrous Jr., still glowing from the firm's successful challenge of California's ban on same-s...

A Court of Appeal has penned an instructive opinion on applying the public interest exemption to class action and representati...

Should the jurors who held Conrad Murray responsible for the death of pop superstar Michael Jackson have been sequestered and ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied a certiorari request regarding a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision that the s...

Earlier this month, the Obama administration released the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. By Sc...

Apple Inc. is seeking more than $900,000 from Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s attorneys at Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sulliva...

The bribery charges filed Friday against state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon and his brother come in the wake of several civil cases...

More than two years since the state abolished local redevelopment agencies as a cost saving tool amid its financial crisis, ci...

One problem that most of the current plans to "reform" the patent system ignore is how changes will affect individual inventor...

The new California laws expressly prohibit employers from reporting (or threatening to report) an employee's immigration statu...

A federal appeals court revived a potential class action suit against an online consumer credit company over claims it misprep...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Jon R. Williams, newly installed president of the San Diego County Bar Association, says he sees no quick fixes for the Califo...

Attorneys and analysts keeping tabs on shareholder activism, particularly among hedge funds, said the agreement was illustrati...

A federal appellate court retained its authority on a key patent litigation issue by determining Friday that a district court'...

A 2012 state law granting a chance at early release to people sentenced to life without parole for crimes committed as juveni...

A Los Angeles judge has axed certain trial expenses requested by the winning and losing sides in the first unintended accelera...

Last week's indictments of state Sen. Ron S. Calderon and his brother Tom Calderon came at an inopportune time for Charles M....

Public defenders' offices around the country are staring at another year of slashed budgets with some offices looking at as mu...

In 2013 the number of federal securities class actions was up by 10 percent over 2012, with filings in the 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

How do you climb off your high horse as the powerful attorney fighting the "good fight" to take on the role of a "lowly" media...

As one noted British jurist has said, "The most important thing for a judge is - curiously enough - judgment." By John M. Feder

Changes to California law are making it more difficult to keep seized weapons from persons found to be a danger to themselves ...

Off the slopes, Olympic bronze medalist Bode Miller is embroiled in a custody dispute that hardly inspires pride in our judici...