This summer, a team of seven DLA Piper attorneys traveled to Guyana to help modernize the country’s justice sector. The projec...

This month, the legal communtity came together to encourage attendees at the Los Angeles Paralegal Association’s (LAPA) Pro Bo...

The bankruptcy lawyer representing the Dewey & LeBouef LLP estate wants the court to green light a $71 million partnership...

Federal prosecutors have abruptly dropped their case against a Spain-based website they had accused of criminal copyright infr...

This year, the Food from the Bar campaign in San Francisco raised a record-breaking $565,969 for the San Francisco and Marin F...

In the two biggest intellectual property trials of the year, Morrison & Foerster LLP attorneys used very similar strategie...

Marilyn Monroe's estate cannot gain financially by suddenly claiming that California was her legal domicile after decades of i...

Last week's $50 million damages award for Hollywood financier David Bergstein's malpractice claims serves as a reminder that w...

General Counsel and Director of Information Governance Globanet Sherman Oaks ...

The Supreme Court has repeatedly declared that trial courts are required to enjoin picket line violence and intimidation. By W...

In Art of Living, the court did not excuse the fact that the blog was only visited a few hundred times. By Dan Berman a...

Most business leaders and many lawyers give only passing thought to the boilerplate provisions in their companies' consumer co...

A man silenced at an Orange County Board of Supervisors meeting lacks standing to challenge a county rule restricting inflamma...

A bill that would limit to seven hours the length of time plaintiffs are subject to depositions in many cases passed the state...

The second time's the charm for formerly named Kelley Drye & Warren LLP, the New York-based firm that is once again seekin...

Sitting judges have been told they won't have to pay increased pension contributions in the state's pension overhaul bill, but...

Bay-area attorneys from Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP assisted in Daikin Industries Ltd...

The controversial Alliance of California Judges was an important, but not dominant, factor in the election of Orange County Su...

The decision reverses the federal district court as well as the state Supreme Court, which affirmed the conviction 12 years ag...

MV TanVentures LLC inked a five-year lease with E-Holdings LP to open an iTan tanning salon at Eastlake Terraces in Chula Vista.

Two years after Citizens United, the ruling is stirring proposals to add more disclosure requirements in California campaigns ...

A new application of a law of nature might be patent-eligible, but it must also be more than the application of the law to a s...

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...