Northern District Judge William Alsup on Wednesday denied a motion to compel arbitration from Bay Area IT distributor Ma Labor...

David C. Dinielli - who has handled major antitrust, copyright, and pro bono cases with an emphasis on LGBT rights - will sta...

Attorneys proposing class action settlements must tie their fee requests directly to the value of coupons that class members r...

Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP represented 2100 Grand LLC, a related entity to visual effects studio Rhy...

The decision is a game changer because it speaks to the inadmissibility of the billed amount where the treater has accepted a ...

The time has finally come. It is almost hard to believe after years of imaging every pleading, letter and document received, I...

When a bill to overturn a decision gets bipartisan support, you can bet that something went radically wrong in our justice sys...

Dealmakers are looking forward to more mergers and acquisitions activity this year, according to the M&A Leaders Survey by...

As rulings increasingly come down in the flood of litigation following the dissolution of redevelopment agencies, some public ...

Venture financing dipped in the first quarter of 2013 from the year-prior period and from the fourth quarter of 2012, both by ...

Hewlett-Packard Co. and its attorneys from K&L Gates LLP and Fish & Richardson PC have been accused of secretly coerci...

A judge snuffed out an employment suit that could have enforced noncompete covenants between a California insurance company an...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP said it plans to launch Manatt Digital Media on Wednesday, a consulting arm and venture fund...

The suit claims not only that the state should not have required the mediation with the United Farm Workers of America, but al...

A federal appeals court Tuesday heard pleas from a popular Northern California oyster farm fighting a government order to clos...

The Commission on Judicial Performance will hear arguments about whether Judge Bruce Clayton Mills violated ethics rules or ac...

A hedge fund's attempt to connect Venable LLP and a former firm partner to an allegedly fraudulent transaction involving Faceb...

Governor Jerry Brown's revised 2013-14 budget proposal disappointed judicial branch leadership by not offering any increased f...

The idea that computers can replace humans for certain types of work has threatened many industries for years, but only recent...

The court rejected the long-accepted holding of In re Pacific Express that bankruptcy courts in the 9th Circuit do not ...

Far too many firms only seem to be investing in efficiency - at the expense of being effective. By Patrick J. McKenna a...

The estate of Howrey LLP recently filed four new adversary cases against law firms, seeking to recover profits from unfinished...

The future looked foggy for an offshore cloud storage company accused of copyright infringement as it struggled to reverse a t...

On Monday, the state of California notified opposing counsel that it will petition the U.S. Supreme Court for review of a fede...

Fenwick & West LLP announced Monday it has landed a partner to anchor its efforts to launch an office in China. ...

The estate of Heller Ehrman LLP achieved a victory Monday when a district judge denied several motions made by firms seeking l...

Assembly Bill 715 would establish that evidentiary decisions made at summary judgment would be subject to de novo review on ap...

The Northern District of California has canceled the remaining four furlough days planned through the end of this fiscal year....

In an attempt to help homeowners facing foreclosure, city officials in Pomona may look at eminent domain as a way to help str...

The Obama administration is considering San Mateo Superior Court Judge Beth Freeman to fill a longstanding federal court vacan...