A Japanese semiconductor company's claim against the co-inventor of one of its patents has no legal grounds, since no federal ...

A State Bar task force today will consider a proposal to require law students have 250 hours of skills training before admissi...

Like schoolkids sweating a math test, federal trial judges must show their work when awarding attorney fees and costs, a 9th U...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeremy D. Matz left the Central District prosecutor's office to enter private practice this wee...

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

Six female employees of prescription drug company Daiichi Sankyo Inc. filed a putative class action in the Northern District o...

Neither employers nor the plaintiffs' bar perceives Harris' mixed-motive decision as a "big win," and it remains to be ...

A federal judge's decision to allow a civil bribery suit against several executives at Deutsche Telekom AG's Hungarian subsidi...

Law firms are helpings clients sort through the ICANN's gTLD process. ...

Paul Sieminski General Counsel Automattic Inc. San Francisco ...

Appellate courts further defined the scope of key defenses available to lawyers by affirming a broad interpretation "actual in...

What is remarkable is that Silas correctly found the statute of limitations prescribed by Section 340.6 controlled, but...

The attorney-client communication privilege is probably one of the most revered evidentiary rules in the U.S. Such reverence i...

Los Angeles will soon be home to the tallest building in the western U.S., and Paul Hastings LLP is helping the developer brin...

Lawyers at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC scored a courtroom victory defending a patent case by test-running a new pr...

San Francisco lawyer Joel D. Adler will pursue unpaid legal bills on behalf of the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate after a fede...

The National Basketball Players Association has hired Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP to advise it on potential reforms...

The estate for defunct law firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and two groups of retired Dewey partners have reached a proposed settl...

Venture capital deal volume slowed in 2012, but company valuations stabilized, according to a recent Cooley LLP report. ...

Allan Diamond, the Chapter 11 trustee representing the Howrey LLP estate, is seeking permission from a federal bankruptcy judg...

As state courts pare back departments and lay off staff, Contra Costa County attorneys are getting creative in finding ways to...

The Soutnern California Institute of Law in Ventura and Santa Barbara filed a law suit attacking a new rule requiring State Ba...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Carolyn Delaney is dialed in to each party's role in the justice system.

Former FTC commissioner returns to Latham & Watkins

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court.

Carol D. Codrington of the 4th District Court of Appeal takes lawyers and students under her wing.

Steven Sanora has stayed close to home on LA's Eastside his entire legal career.

Described as fair, Judge Colin Bilash is also private. Even staffers don't know his birthday.

Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP's M&A group debate the wisdom of attempting to modify the be...

If a studio plans to release a film and there has been a trademark infringement claim, the studio will want to know with certa...