Currently, California has thousands of individuals held in solitary confinement with no meaningful review process. By Jeffrey ...

As smartphone rivals Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. juggle two patent lawsuits in San Jose, a contentious dispute...

Littler Mendelson will expand into Puerto Rico in January when the management-side labor and employment firm enters a Swiss Ve...

Saratoga-based Roku Inc. named Hogan Lovells partner Stephen H. Kay as its next general counsel. ...

A group of defendants associated with disrupting Paypal Inc.'s services in a cyberattack pled guilty in federal court in San J...

William M. Gallagher, a long-serving and sometimes controversial Superior Court judge, died last month at the age of 93. ...

David S. Mandell most recently served as general counsel for mobile phone entertainment content provider Mandalay Digital Grou...

A state statute that extends deadlines for seeking return of stolen artworks isn't preempted by the federal government's exclu...

Respected Los Angeles attorney Milton Everett Olin Jr. of Altschul & Olin LLP died Sunday from injuries sustained in a bi...

Judge James R. Dunn likes to watch attorneys trade arguments informally in the settlement process.

Advocates say the case could set an important precedent removing obstacles to jobs for "Dreamer" immigrants who get authorizat...

The case challenges a California state law, which allows authorities to obtain, store and analyze the DNA of anyone arrested f...

It is notable that the 9th Circuit found an "exceptional" case for applying the tacking doctrine in a recent case. By James Ha...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

After the measure, as many as 4,000 inmates became possibly eligible for a recall of their life sentences, resentencing and re...

More than two dozen legislative bills were introduced from both sides of the political aisle, but only piecemeal changes to th...

The state high court says peace officers owed a duty of care for their conduct leading up to the use of deadly force. By Tony ...

San Francisco-based Emison Hullverson LLP will add two new attorneys in January when partner Miles B. Cooper and of counsel Sc...

Following two patent infringement trial victories totaling $929.8 million, Apple Inc. now wants smartphone and patent litigati...

A superior court judge has barred seven court reporters in Shasta County Superior Court from striking. ...

Pratik Shah of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP, Maureen Mahoney of Latham & Watkins LLP, and Carter Phillips of Sid...

The U.S. Supreme Court plans to weigh in on the patent eligibility of computer software, accepting review on Friday of a widel...

Attorneys in the firm's Palo Alto office helped the Los Altos-based data storage company secure $100 million from a handful of...

But U.S. District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers also refuted defendants' arguments the case should be significantly narrowed be...

A Berkeley woman who lost both legs in a railway platform accident in Austria can proceed with her suit against the Austrian g...

A federal judge granted judgment on the pleadings in favor of the California Teachers Association in a case challenging the co...

Due to the court system's budget crisis, L.A. family law officials needed to come up with a new way to process temporary restr...

Phillip Warren will leave his post Jan. 3 after 30 years in the San Francisco field office of the Department of Justice's anti...

Allen H. Sumner is known for bringing a relaxed, informal approach to his criminal calendar.

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