While the goal of the legislation is laudable, it does not provide a realistic remedy to what is a very significant problem. B...

The numbers suggest that the average beneficiary gets back three times what they put in. By Brian Sheppard

Susan Skaer, the former general counsel of Mercury Interactive LLC, will pay more than $850,000 to settle a Securities and Exc...

Lawyers presented opening statements to a jury Monday on the first day of an employment trial involving federal weapons resear...

The former chief executive of California's largest public pension fund, and one of its former board members, appeared in feder...

Plaintiffs in the mental-health portion of the prison-overcrowding lawsuit responded to the state's request that the case be d...

Caldwell, Leslie & Proctor LLP co-founder Michael Leslie said he felt gratified at the sight of colleagues, clients and fr...

Latham & Watkins LLP represented Safeway Inc.'s gift card unit Blackhawk Network Holdings Inc. and Sullivan & Cromwell...

In an extraordinary turnaround, corporate partner and dealmaker Michael S. Ringler has rejoined Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & ...

Bingham McCutchen LLP strengthened its Palo Alto-based corporate practice with the addition of five lawyers, including two par...

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

Two accused hackers can't subpoena wide swaths of company information from PayPal Inc. about the coordinated cyberattack that ...

The SEC filed charges Friday against two San Diego attorneys and a number of other individuals for allegedly manipulating stoc...

In light of the recent across-the-board federal spending cuts, a number of projects are seeing their heads on the $85 million ...

A trailer bill that's part of Gov. Jerry Brown's budget proposal could chill some public-interest lawsuits, according to a rep...

Perhaps because of American market dominance, Canadians generally do a better job of paying attention to U.S. tax consideratio...

Firms entering the Korean market see a new business opportunity, estimated to be worth up to $2 billion annually, and an oppor...

An insurance policy's unsatisfied self-insured retention can significantly impact litigation and impede an injured party's rec...

A contentious breach-of-contract case against federal weapons research lab Lawrence Livermore National Security LLC goes to tr...

Judge Frederick N. Wapner sentenced 49-year-old sole practitioner Kenneth Roger Markman to a year in county jail and a year of...

Los Angeles County Superior Court has given final approval to a plan to close eight of its courthouses in an effort to reduce ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that under federal Superfund law, insurance companies must follow a narrow legal p...

Since early February, under goading by the advocacy group Law School Transparency, many California schools improved the online...

While the increasing prevalence of technology has allowed several state courts to transition to online filing systems in recen...

Haight Brown & Bonesteel LLP added a pair of attorneys in Los Angeles as partners in the firm's employment and labor pract...

In a setback for the Obama administration's surveillance program, a federal judge here on Friday held unconstitutional the use...

Last year, a proposal for an EU Regulation on Data Protection was released. The regulation has been described as one of the mo...

It seems professional journalists can no longer compete with bloggers any more than Blockbuster can compete with Netflix. By K...

A federal judge stymied a lawsuit filed by Implicit Networks Inc. and its lawyers at Hosie Rice LLP in an order Wednesday that...

A 9th Circuit ruling on a claim of corruption against BNSF Railway Company by a rail workers union grabbed the attention of Ca...