While California can benefit from improving its business climate by focusing on strengths, chasing Texas and other magnet sta...

Long Beach-based HCP Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire 133 housing communities for $1.73 billion from a joint vent...

After a series of conflicting 9th Circuit decisions, one certainly could excuse the plaintiffs' and civil defense bars for fee...

Here we offer a thousand words of pragmatic advice (in English) for non-insurance litigators. By Marc Maister, Michael Fehner,...

If an insurer decides to decline a claim yet stay involved to monitor proceedings, the burden of proving an absence of coverag...

Although much attention is now focused on new products specifically designed to cover cyber-risks, companies ought to consult ...

Insurers often claim their obligations under an excess policy do not arise until the underlying policy has been exhausted, whi...

A fully-briefed case that could open the doors to lawsuits against insurers under California's Unfair Competition Law has been...

An insurance policy clause known as the "entertainment industry exclusion" is causing some musicians and other showbiz types t...

Litigation experience, entertainment industry know-how, and a strong client list all made for a perfect recipe when three like...

The concentration of women equity partners at America's largest law firms has remained essentially unchanged for the past seve...

Cooley LLP is representing NextWave Pharmaceuticals in its sale to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. for $680 million. ...

After months of contentious negotiations, Contra Costa County deputy district attorneys Tuesday settled their labor dispute wi...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired a new partner in the firm's land use and environmental practice group in a m...

An Apple Inc. patent that a jury concluded was infringed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. this summer has been declared invalid...

Del Norte County's district attorney on Tuesday accused State Bar prosecutors of pursuing a vendetta to have him disbarred wit...

Senior Circuit Judge Betty Binns Fletcher, a liberal lioness at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Monday night at a ...

As Californians consider a ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified food, a federal appeals court will consi...

U.S. District Judge and Director, Federal Judicial Center, San Jose and Washington D.C. ...

Judge Linda Colfax excels on the juvenile dependency court despite her heavy docket

A continuing recovery in key sectors of the California economy has contributed to a 4.7 percent rise in median general counsel...

Last year's $250 million purchase of Los Angeles-based Riot Games Inc. by Shenzhen-based investment company Tencent Holdings L...

Interest in this memo intensified following a 2011 drone strike in Yemen that killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen. By ...

Modeled in part after legislation in New York, Prop. 35 will expand the definition of human trafficking and increase prison se...

It is important to take appropriate steps to avoid mistakes that can lead to overprescribing enforcement actions by the Medica...

Otto R. Skopil Jr., who served as a federal district judge and, since 1979, as a judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...

Morrison & Foerster LLP, a law firm that has garnered awards and acclaim for its pro bono efforts, has successfully levera...

In the wake of the ACLU's investigation last fall into conditions in Los Angeles County's jail system, more than 50 attorneys ...

Far from being polar opposites, fashion and law go together like a hat and a pair of gloves. Now, they're about to head to the...

Attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. are citing language in a successful appeals court ruling against Apple Inc. in one ...