Individual artists who created works after 1977 will soon be able to reclaim their works, and whittle away at record label rev...

The 2nd District recently found that Domino's Pizza went too far controlling a franchisee, resulting in a principle-agent rela...

A total absence of care is not required for a care facility to be held liable. By Denise A. Platt Maginn ...

Supporters of the Southwest Museum were dealt a setback when a judge denied their petition of mandate alleging that city commi...

The estate for defunct firm Dewey & LeBeouf LLP is trying to convince former partners to buy in to a settlement plan to av...

San Diego-based Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP will be accepting applications for the first class at its company...

The Obama administration took the extraordinary step Tuesday of asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a federal judge's deci...

Law schools are offering many more clinical, writing and other programs meant to give students practical, real-world experienc...

A bill backed by plaintiffs' attorneys that sought to preserve consumer class actions died in the state Assembly Judiciary C...

San Francisco-based enterprise software company Mashery Inc. announced Tuesday the addition of its first general counsel. ...

A San Jose federal judge has denied a request by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. to stay the injunction she issued last week blo...

A Department of Justice effort to aggressively seek damages against companies accused of negligently setting wildfires in Cali...

Now that Toshiba Corp. has been ordered by a jury to pay $87 million to plaintiffs who sued over a scheme to fix LCD panel pri...

General counsel for AVOS Systems Inc. San Mateo ...

New-York based Madison Square Garden Co., owner of the New York Knicks and Madison Square Garden, announced last week that it'...

When San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Harold E. Kahn begins a typical day, he knows his work will continue long after...

After 50 years in law, including a decade on the bench, Justice Richard Mosk still asks, 'What's next?'

Bay Area patent lawyers are hailing news that the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is coming to Silicon Valley, but the actual...

A court in Germany ruled that the heirs of Hans Prym had the right to the return of one of the most important Mercedes-Benz ca...

The ruling party's name is "Communist," but as far as the economy is concerned the philosophy we heard was "let's find what wo...

One week after the city of Stockton voted to proceed toward bankruptcy, Mammoth Lakes is following suit. ...

A hypothetical BAU tied neither to existing conditions nor reasonably likely conditions will only mislead the public and decis...

The bidding war for Aliso Viejo-based Quest Software Inc. appears to have been won by Dell Inc. ...

Attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. argued Monday that a federal judge should stay a preliminary injunction blocking t...

Ropes & Gray LLP lost two of its well-known Northern California litigators to Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP in San Franc...

The majority ruling generated strongly worded dissents from the court's liberal wing, Justices Kathryn Werdeger and Goodwin Li...

As California becomes the first state to implement legislation similar to much of the national mortgage settlement reached thi...

A jury today found that electronics manufacturer Toshiba Corp. participated in a scheme to fix the price of LCD panels, and aw...

Pressing its claim that the government eavesdrops illicitly on U.S. citizens, a privacy rights group on Monday released testim...

Yahoo Inc. General Counsel Michael J. Callahan is leaving the Sunnyvale-based Internet company after nine years as its chief l...