One assistant principal took the extreme step of suing students who mocked him, and in the process demonstrated the exact wron...

Another barrage of class action suits against the multinational insurance giant was filed this week in federal courts on both ...

The office is the corporate defense litigation firm's first in California and the third it has opened since August 2010. ...

The announcement does not address how other federal courts will work next week, and it leaves attorneys wondering whether civi...

The firm is advising a pair of San Diego-based biotech companies in their recently announced bids to go public. Biocept and Ta...

President Barack Obama's recent comments have highlighted the possibility of structural change. By Frank H. Wu ...

A recent appellate decision demonstrates that like invisible ink, what depublication has erased is not always entirely gone. B...

When conflicts exist between two or more clients, attorneys may find themselves in a quagmire. By J. Randolph Evans, Shari L. ...

When a third party becomes privy to a confidential communication, the consequences depend on whether state or federal law appl...

If the job of law schools were simply to recreate lawyers in their own image, it could be done easily in two years. By John Tr...

While the act has lessened the burden of going public, the strength of the capital markets and of those companies going public...

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

As a neutral, DeVanon uses the skills he learned on the bench and as a criminal defense lawyer to connect with parties and thi...

Questions remain about the extent to which such waivers will be enforced in California courts. By Steven Zadravecz and John Sa...

The State Bar has refused to share information about test-takers with UCLA School of Law professor Richard Sander due to his c...

Lawsuits arising from social media will only increase - from plaintiffs asserting First Amendment protection to defendants fac...

A state appellate court has ordered a new hearing for a mother who claims authorities wrongly accused her of child abuse for s...

The decision affects only older Samsung smartphones and tablet computers and is unlikely to be the knockout blow Apple is seek...

After nearly a decade at Russ August & Kabat, Steven M. Goldberg returned to the Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelps &...

Having dodged a legislative effort to force open committee meetings, the judiciary is working to make its policy meetings publ...

Deal value in the Golden State increased by 11.9 percent in the first three quarters, according to a new report. ...

Nearly three years after a measure to legalize cannabis for recreational use failed by a narrow margin, a new movement is afoo...

Pressure to comply with both U.S. corrupt practices laws and Chinese privacy laws has put some U.S.-based businesses in a toug...

The effects of the budget impasse in Washington, D.C. are mounting as federal court workers are furloughed and lawyers and jud...

San Diego Judge Laura Halgren pivoted to the law after an earlier career in a dentist's office.

Ronald Gilbert is dynamic and unfiltered. He even challenges lawyers to rubber band wars.

Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP named Menlo Park-based Susan M. Spaeth as its next managing partner. ...

While the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the federal Voting Rights Act this summer, civil rights activists in...

The San Francisco court is exploring a change in its rules that would significantly increase how much supervision the unpaid l...

Left largely unaddressed was who bears the initial burden of showing that a claimed invention is naturally occurring and what ...