Fenwick & West LLP represented Cisco Systems Inc. in the company's intent to purchase small-cell maker Ubiquisys Ltd. for...

A focus on animation is what the two-attorney team at Klein & Wilson said separates them from its big firm competition. Wi...

The legal industry saw the highest number of law firm mergers and acquisitions in a single quarter since the first quarter of ...

A man whose identity was used by a Fresno County correctional officer to send "inflammatory" letters to jail inmates cannot co...

Neutral Steven Block's specialty is handling difficult clients, angry litigants, and hard feelings. ...

Famed class-action litigator Melvyn I. Weiss is not likely to face any significant jail time as a result of a drunk driving ar...

Early-stage companies are involving more investors in funding rounds, while the average dollar amount of such rounds has incre...

Amazon wants to own the top-level domain name dot-app, but so does Google. And 11 others. And they may be on the brink of a b...

Since the state's redevelopment agencies began to dissolve last year, California has faced a torrent of litigation over specif...

Any company that has suffered a cyberattack needs to know that the SEC is taking an increasingly hard line on what must be dis...

State Supreme Court justices suggested they might adopt a limited exception to the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreas...

A State Bar judge has recommended disbarment of Del Norte County District Attorney Jon M. Alexander after the first-ever trial...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

It hardly ever happens - a trial over the state's unique toxics warning law. The high-stakes case scheduled to open Monday co...

Maybe you are one of the 140,000 people who snapped-up a copy of Sheryl Sandberg's new book "Lean In." But what about employer...

In March, the Federal Trade Commission released new guidelines for online advertisements, the culmination of a two-year proces...

Several California appellate court decisions highlight the importance of drafting arbitration contract terms that the courts w...

With the law unclear on whether punitive damages awarded in an underlying case can offset any alleged damages in a later malpr...

In a 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Stephen Breyer, the U.S. high court found that Section 109(a) of the Copyright Act has no...

Silicon Valley lawyers continued Wednesday to digest the impacts of the SEC's decision to allow companies to disclose informat...

Seven California lawyers and three out-of-state attorneys will be accompanying Gov. Jerry Brown on his week-long trade and inv...

Chicago-based Vedder Price is making its first foray into California, opening an office in San Francisco, the firm confirmed o...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP will add the Securities and Exchange Commission's top leader in Northern California, Marc J. F...

Thomas F. Guernsey, a professor at Albany Law School and the school's dean in 2002-11, will become dean of San Diego's Thomas ...

A California man who in 2002 was wrongfully convicted of rape and kidnapping signed a contract on Wednesday with the Atlanta F...

A federal appellate court Wednesday tossed a suit in which environmentalists claimed Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Pacifi...

It came down to the last hour, but Steve Berman, of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP changed his position Thursday afternoon an...

On the heels of several new application launches, Palo Alto-based online payment and invoicing startup WePay Inc. unveiled its...

In a rare reversal in a wrongful death case, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday denied immunity to a Calif...

The state Supreme Court appeared ready during oral argument Wednesday to scrap a ruling from just two years ago on the controv...