Arent Fox grabs IP attorney from DLA Piper, opens in SF

Settlement Judge Zaven V. Sinanian, drawn to law by a dream cut short, helps make peace.

Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima, interned by the US at age 8, spoke out after the opening of Guantanamo against 'a virulent s...

A recent state Supreme Court decision could have ripple effects for years as advances in technology undermine what was once co...

"Priest of Our Democracy" tells of the teachers and professors who resisted the witch hunt for members of the communist party ...

In the absence of comprehensive federal regulations governing hydraulic fracturing, several states have begun to adopt their o...

Lawyers fret. It's in their nature. Lawyers who practice before the Securities and Exchange Commission have at times fretted a...

A blossoming romance inspired a business litigator and a family lawyer to join forces, resulting in a nimble - if somewhat pec...

The Alameda County Bar Association held its Board Installation and Distinguished Awards Luncheon on Jan. 25 at the Lake Merrit...

An "American Idol" contestant booted from the show 10 years ago is suing Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Morrison & Foers...

A federal judge on Thursday tentatively approved most of the recommendations for attorney fee awards in an ongoing class actio...

The Justice Department, in a bid to toss Oakland's lawsuit regarding the federal government's forfeiture action against a mamm...

Mark Hummels, a partner at Osborn Maledon PA and president of the Phoenix chapter of the Federal Bar Association, is on life s...

Nearly 100 attorneys and members of the Los Angeles civil rights community joined together on Jan. 25 for the Anti-Defamation ...

The lengthy legal and personal skirmish between San Mateo-based plaintiffs' attorneys Terry O'Reilly and Michael Danko will co...

San Mateo County Superior Court will likely lay off four of its commissioners and terminate up to 21 staff positions this summ...

Retired judge Harry W. Low, a neutral at JAMS, now 81, has interrupted his day job refereeing business disputes many times ove...

A Mexican resident who claims he was working as an FBI informant when arrested as part of a drug bust won a second chance to m...

Morrison & Foerster LLP lawyers persuaded a trial court judge in Placer County to wipe out a $7.41 million verdict against...

Lawyers Club co-sponsored the Coalition for Reproductive Choice's annual Roe v. Wade Anniversary Dinner on Jan. 24. Lawyers Cl...

The state Supreme Court has appointed three new members to the court's Committee on Judicial Ethics Opinion, which provides et...

A federal appeals court dealt Apple Inc. a sound, if anticipated blow Thursday, unanimously denying the company's request for ...

The system by which federal judges choose law clerks turned more chaotic this week when the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....

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

At a time when technology appears to be moving faster than the law, district courts have become a battleground for a stark deb...

The dream of a single patent that would allow inventors to protect their inventions in all EU member states has been a long ti...

In June 2013, the Los Angeles County court system shave millions more from its budget by closing all courtrooms in 10 regional...

I think the doctrine of "respondeat superior" (let the master answer) has gone amuck and it's time to rein it in. By Harvey A....

The event, sponsored by the "Writers Bloc," to promote the justice's memoir, "My Beloved World," was titled "a conversation wi...

A new decision addresses the factual circumstances plaintiffs must plead to allege that a communication was confidential. By J...