Serving as an arbitrator at the Olympic Games is a different kind of gig - and the eyes of the world are watching. By Maidie O...

In practice, the threat of a fee award brings otherwise reluctant employers to the settlement table even when they feel that t...

As a recent decision vividly demonstrates, if such offers are carelessly drafted, fees can also be awarded - post acceptance. ...

Patent attorneys may need to stiffen their resolve and make sure that they exercise extreme caution when claiming subject matt...

UC Berkeley School of Law is kicking off initiation of its California Constitution Center with a moot court for attorneys prep...

Google Inc.-owned Motorola Mobility LLC reached a settlement with Apple Inc. over the Cupertino-based company's infringement o...

A San Diego lawyer accused of helping clients evade income taxes can no longer give tax advice or prepare others' returns, acc...

An online financial services company must pay $3.7 million in civil contempt sanctions for violating a court order to stop mis...

Stephen E. Claman, a noted real estate lawyer in the Los Angeles office of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machinger LLP...

Full service firms and boutiques have seen an increase in activity over the past year. ...

A state Senate bill that would increase how much victims and insurers get for medical damages passed an Assembly Judiciary Com...

Judge Leslie Brown fell into the law, but he takes it seriously, and litigants should, too.

Apple Inc.'s $1 billion verdict from a San Jose federal jury for patent and trade dress infringement Friday is only likely to ...

Courts and litigants are often confused about just who can enforce a mortgage that has been transferred in the secondary marke...

A Santa Clara County deputy district attorney who is now a judge had a key role in willful prosecutorial misconduct, the state...

A plaintiffs' claim of medical negligence in a case of a woman who may have been sent to the morgue alive cannot proceed after...

U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II of Los Angeles was wrong to admit evidence at a chief executive's securities fraud trial...

A federal appellate court on Monday opened the door for the state of California, Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and others to ...

The California Supreme Court named David J. Pasternak, a former Judicial Council member from Los Angeles, to the State Bar Boa...

State court judge rules in favor of Prince Abdul-Aziz ibn Abdul-Aziz al Saud, the third son of Saudi King Abdullah and Saudi A...

Two judges are about to face off in a race for San Francisco County Superior Court's assistant presiding judge seat. ...

Sidley Austin LLP has hired Glenn G. Nash, a former Latham & Watkins LLP partner, to serve as the new global co-leader of ...

The Supreme Court sent 18 more discipline plea bargains back to the State Bar but rejected the bar's motion to remand 24. ...

Judge Don Christian aimed to be a professor. Now his courtroom is a classroom for litigants.

An Orange County attorney who failed to file multiple income tax returns and helped create an offshore corporation later inves...

Recommendations to the state Judicial Council on how to adopt proposed reforms of the Administrative Office of the Courts were...

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

Google Inc. again denied it paid journalists or bloggers to provide commentary about its high-profile infringement trial again...

Executive Vice President and General Counsel NBCUniversal Television Entertainment ...

Even when officers work within the boundaries created by Miranda, Davis and Berghuis, they can still empl...