Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Lawyers say a more international group of investors paying top dollar for art has placed increasing importance on certain aspe...

General Counsel for Vendavo Inc. Mountain View ...

The AIA went into effect over a year ago, but many patent applicants may still be unaware of so-called "Rule 42.73(d) estoppel...

The Target data breach should be a wake-up call to California businesses to pay attention to California's security breach laws...

The remedy already exists; it is our role as lawyers to find the answer to the question, to use the laws to work out how to pr...

A group of former Howrey LLP attorneys that includes U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal recently reached an unusual settleme...

Sen. Noreen Evans will be replaced as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee by Sen. Hannah Beth Jackson. ...

With courts facing tight budgets, legislators are considering a bill that intends to save time and money by limiting how ofte...

Liner LLP intends to launch a downtown Los Angeles office after having added two real estate specialists from Sheppard, Mulli...

The 20-year veteran of the 1st District Court of Appeal and former head of the California Republican Party said he will retire...

Riverbed Technology, a San Francisco-based networking equipment maker, said Wednesday that it would not accept an unsolicited ...

When Gov. Jerry Brown announced a budget that included money for high-speed rail to be taken from a "cap-and-trade" air emissi...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. could be on the hook for labor law violations against warehouse workers it didn't directly hire, a federa...

Despite reservations by some in the legal and business communities, litigation finance - the practice of non-legal entities fu...

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

Requiring a departing partner to notice of an impending move is a common provision in law firm partnership agreements. But unt...

A Marin County oyster farm lost its bid for en banc review of a federal order that it must close, the 9th Circuit announced Tu...

An appellate court upheld a law banning the Law School Admission Council from notifiying law schools when students need extra ...

The company Tuesday named longtime general counsel David M. Shannon to the newly created position of chief administrative offi...

A federal judge delivered notice Tuesday that he is granting some relief to a Malaysian doctoral student at Stanford who was p...

Rock star Courtney Love, was in court Tuesday morning as jury selection began for a unique trial involving defamation via Twit...

Plaintiffs' attorneys suing the National Football League said Tuesday that they remain "confident" a Philadelphia judge will ...

The U.S. Department of Labor recently tapped a Bay Area plaintiffs' lawyer, Janette L. Wipper, California managing partner San...

Los Angeles litigator Marshall Grossman has jumped to Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP along with colleague Stacy Weinst...

The suit alleging major Silicon Valley conspired not to poach each other's employees is slated to go to trial in May. ...

Legal disputes have become more common and increasingly expensive. By Karen Reinhold and Dan Pyne ...

Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye took to the steps of the Stanley Mosk Library and Courts building Tuesday morning to argu...

In slamming the brakes on efforts to hold foreign corporations liable in American courts for human rights abuses overseas, the...

The California Supreme Court is stepping into a debate over the reach of the state's bedrock environmental law as the building...