Companies hoping to challenge the validity of patents raced to prepare petitions to the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in th...

The State Bar filed disciplinary charges against three lawyers for apparently lying about completing their continuing legal le...

Bet Tzedek entered a 10 year lease for the 13th and two-thirds of the 14th floor at 3250 Wilshire Blvd. in Los Angeles.

Several recent court decisions and legislative actions are reshaping the state's decisions when it comes to pursuing adult or ...

Superior Court Judge Imperial County (El Centro) ...

Recent activities with GM dealerships in the San Francisco East Bay market have many wondering whether GM is making another at...

In the court-annexed "mediation" and alternative dispute resolution processes, what has been historically a settlement confere...

In order for a Notice of Exemption to trigger CEQA's 35-day statute of limitations, it must be facially valid and properly fil...

The state Supreme Court justices wrestled Tuesday with whether a plaintiff who brings a disabilities access complaint against ...

Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP has brought on a business restructuring lawyer who previously worked in investment banki...

A California appellate court decision Monday to uphold a 2010 victory by actor Don Johnson against the owners of the hit TV sh...

The attorney for a woman who wants to be allowed to pursue her lawsuit against a county hospital after failing to submit her c...

Oceanside attorney Dean G. Chandler has been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges related to an alleged $11 million ...

A prominent Beverly Hills-based plaintiffs' law firm says it has found an innovative way to lower the standard of proof in jet...

Venture-backed companies seeking to exit through a public offering or an acquisition may be discouraged by the latest numbers ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal Tuesday rejected a trial court’s attempt to send a probation violator to state prison. ...

In a small but expected win for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a San Jose federal judge has followed through on her promise to ...

Two new faculty members and a new lecturer will begin teaching at Stanford Law School this fall. ...

Nossaman LLP has selected an attorney to co-chair its newly formed practice group that will consolidate the firm's intellectua...

Gov. Jerry Brown's vetoes show the governor is leery of piling new regulations on businesses and a desire to avoid creating ex...

Veterans who participated in secret military experiments in the 1950s, '60s and '70s to identify the effects of toxic biologic...

Judge Rand S. Rubin turns to music to keep the sometimes-grim cases on his calendar at bay.

Mediation sessions typically begin with what Russell A. Bostrom calls the "offended/insulted" stage. But attorneys say that in...

Bay Area lawyers have developed an expertise in patent-only transactions that have become big-money deals. ...

Proposition 36 is a modest reform of the Three Strikes Law originally passed by the voters in 1994. It protects a very valuabl...

According to Dante, both people and animals can be violent, but only humans can twist their reason towards evil by willfully c...

Your practice can reach enhanced levels of efficiency with help from an experienced attorney-coach. This is the message of "Th...

Two recent tax cases demonstrate the circumstances in which a "reliance" defense arises. By Bruce Givner and Owen Kaye of Givn...

San Diego-based startup EndoPodium Inc. is the first company to join Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's business i...

Three elite plaintiffs' law firms might not have properly accounted for a reported nine-figure settlement they secured from St...