The changed class action landscape following a key U.S. Supreme Court decision last year was debated Tuesday before a 9th Circ...

Former Perkins Coie partner Harold R. DeGraff must take his compensation dispute into arbitration, a federal judge ruled this ...

Warner Bros. has launched an assault on businesses selling counterfeit DVDs of the studio's material on Amazon's marketplace i...

Two parties involved in a legal row over Gov. Jerry Brown's upcoming November tax increase measure have filed responses to a p...

The convictions could have widespread ramifications for public corruption trials, including the defendants in the city of Bell...

August marks the month when law firms across the country recruit at college campuses. By most accounts, next summer's class si...

Same-sex marriage opponents have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse lower court rulings that struck down as unconstitutio...

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The committee in charge of finding a new director for the Administrative Office of the Courts ditched a headhunter's work to i...

Trying to find 10 unbiased jurors in Silicon Valley to decide the trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd pro...

Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented Sunquest Information Systems Inc. and owner Vista Equity Partners in a planned $1.4 billi...

A federal appellate panel on Monday revived the lawsuit of an administrative law judge working for the federal agency in charg...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Donna Alyson Little on Monday announced her retirement after 21 years with the court...

The new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has shut down the offices of Los Angeles lawyer Chance Edward Gordon. ...

Large law firms are more successful in recruiting diverse associates than smaller firms, and law firms with more minority part...

The USOC should come clean about the "true nature" of the Olympic brand, over which Congress has so graciously granted a monop...

The operators of the Law School Admission Test are under fire for allegedly discriminating against disabled test-takers by den...

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Superior courts have a better idea of just how deep the state may go in slashing their budgets after a meeting Friday of the...

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

Los Angeles litigator James W. Spertus secured a $300 million judgment against Iran last week for the grandson of an assassina...

Senior Vice President and General Counsel for St. Joseph Health System Orange ...

This past year I parted ways with my trusty Blackberry and welcomed Siri into my life. By Paul R. Kiesel of Kiesel Boucher &am...

Trial courts continue to receive very inconsistent direction regarding the proper interpretation and application of the Federa...

To "expound" means to set forth and teach; to interpret; to comment upon. It does not mean to "expand." By Sarah P. Condor-Fis...

Local drugmaker McKesson Corp. will pay $151 to California and 28 other states to settle allegations that the pharmaceutical g...

As the trial in the epic patent showdown between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. opens today in San Jose federal c...

As fee disputes between TV show owners and distributors cause screens across the country to go dark more frequently, lawmakers...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP advised Apple Inc. in a recent $356 million acquisition of Florida-based digital security compa...