Intertrust Technologies Corp. filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oakland Wednesday claiming Apple Inc. is infringing 15 of it...

Legislation expected this month would give the State Bar new authority to pursue the unauthorized practice of law, including c...

In a 7-1 ruling, the Supreme Court found that the federal Environmental Protection Agency acted reasonably when it decided tha...

Lawyers say James R. Ritchie brings a lenient air to court but is willing to make tough calls.

General Counsel of Murcor Inc. Pomona ...

Courts hate to hear that they aren't working hard. But a veteran appellate court justice in San Francisco says he perceives th...

A State Assembly subcommittee Tuesday unanimously shot down a budget proposal from the governor's office that the Legislative ...

The bankruptcy battle between San Mateo-based plaintiffs' attorneys Terry O'Reilly and his former colleague Michael Danko will...

The state attorney general's office can sue former city of Bell officials, convicted of stealing public funds by taking excess...

New York-based Africa Israel USA, a real estate development company, sold the Rialto Building, a 135,485-square-foot, nine-sto...

Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics LLC, best known for their Beats By Dre headphones, appointed its first general counsel, ...

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised Cole Holdings Corp. in American Realty Capital Properties Inc.'s $9 billion offer to acqui...

A German hedge-fund manager on the lam for more than five years was formally indicted Wednesday by the U.S. attorney's office ...

Last week, the 9th Circuit affirmed a decision which affects environmental insurers and, perhaps inconspicuously, also impacts...

Civil Code Section 1717, which makes one-way fee-shifting provisions mutual in actions on the contract, will not save such a p...

To say the associate recruitment market is recovering in California might be an overstatement, but firms are increasingly voic...

July 1: That's when new disclosure requirements for ADA surveys and some buildings' energy usage histories go into effect. By ...

Clients have come to realize that some tasks don't require lawyers, or at least high priced lawyers in traditional law firms, ...

If the savings to the state by closing a courthouse will be eaten up by the costs, why is the state doing it? By Richard Herzog

Because some firms have been burnt by lateral partners who overpromised and underdelivered, due diligence is now greater. By S...

In recent years, a number of operating technology companies have - like non-practicing entities - begun asserting patents that...

The man accused of stealing a valuable trade secret from DuPont and sharing it with the Chinese government will stay in jail u...

An innovative program to help Californians make environmental upgrades to their homes was dealt a blow by a federal appeals co...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday will hear en banc a case to determine whether or not the First Amendment pr...

A class action over claims that fuel retailers misled consumers by selling motor fuel at temperatures above 60 degrees Fahrenh...

A group of Riverside jail inmates is suing the county in federal court, contending they face a "cruel and inhumane" lack of me...

A Los Angeles County judge has removed the trustees assigned to manage the $350 million trust the founder of nutritional compa...

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP represented E-Trade Financial Corp. in connection with a secondary offering of $309 million wort...

As budgets tightened during the economic downturn and more work was sent in-house, junior lawyers became a way to handle low-l...

Lateral partner movement has changed drastically in the past fives years. Portable books of business have become more importan...