After years of growing attacks, the efficient-market hypothesis, along with the fraud-on-the-market theory, is now on the chop...

The outcome could drastically alter the punitive damage landscape in the state. ...

As part of a plan to capitalize on Southern California's growing intellectual property market, the firm intends to open an off...

The longtime California jurist, who presided over a famous kidnapping case and whose descendents include several judges, died ...

The big box retailer and a class of women lay out an unusually tailor-made system for awarding damages to individual class mem...

Korean media concern waived right by delaying arbitration request, appeals court says. ...

Acquisition of IMG by William Morris Endeavor and its backer Silver Lake is estimated to be valued at $2.4 billion ...

The public needs to hold their politicians directly accountable for the runaway sentences, not the prosecutors who must play o...

Panish, Shea & Boyle calls O'Melveny's bill for fighting Michael Jackson's wrongful death suit 'excessive' and 'unreasonab...

Senators are drawing partisan lines in the sand over legislation to curb frivolous patent infringement lawsuits, two weeks aft...

General Counsel and Vice President of the Americas for Avnet Inc. Milpitas ...

Plaintiffs in privacy lawsuits against technology companies have often been stopped cold by the significant hurdle of establis...

Court rules prosecutors failed to present exculpatory evidence to a grand jury in a $17 million fraud case against two doctors...

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

Privacy took center stage in 2013 as a topic of public discourse. Companies' online privacy policies became a subject of great...

California Treasurer Bill Lockyer plans to wrap up his last year in public office working part-time with Brown Rudnick LLP. Th...

The number of people beginning law school in the U.S. has fallen 24 percent since 2010, according to figures released Tuesday ...

Orange County district attorney officials committed no wrongdoing when they informed a Costa Mesa City Council member that a G...

When it comes to employment lawsuits, the plaintiffs' bar styles itself as a vindicator of civil rights. But when it comes to ...

Brad D. Brian last week received the 33rd annual American Jewish Committee Los Angeles' Learned Hand Award last week for his d...

In a rare defamation trial, a Hogan Lovells US LLP pro bono team secured a victory this week for a blogger who had been sued b...

Paul D. Seeman was formally censured and barred from seeking further judicial assignments, the Commission on Judicial Performa...

Non-appealability clauses in arbitration agreements are unenforceable when they seek to insulate an arbitrator's fee allocatio...

At issue is the impact of a round of layoffs in 2008 on five workers, each of whom worked at the lab for more than 20 years. ...

2013 saw fewer Chapter 11 filings nationwide, but lawyers say a spike in interest rates could spell trouble for middle market ...

John Adams, whose legal career initially focused on air quality issues, now hears criminal cases.

As the one-year mark of President Barack Obama's second term approaches, the comprehensive immigration reform that many litiga...

The Innovation Act, which aims to curb abusive patent litigation behavior by entities whose sole business is to license patent...

In a win for Microsoft Corp., the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a U.S. International Trade Commission d...

The former president of a San Francisco immigration law firm has agreed to pay more than $400,000 to resolve charges accusing ...