The U.S. Supreme Court appeared likely Monday to shield Los Angeles Sheriff's Department officers from personal liability for ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to weigh whether a man can sue federal agents for arresting him after telling then-Vice P...

The National Football League is aggressively seeking to dismiss or consolidate several lawsuits alleging it hid the effects of...

A federal judge has rejected Apple Inc.'s bid for a preliminary injunction barring Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. from selling s...

Automakers are dead set on spending big - with someone else's money. By Jonathan Michaels of Michaels Law Group

Nearly one month after hearing oral arguments, the state Supreme Court agreed Friday to accept additional briefs in the most-w...

Bryan Cave LLP, which employs more than 1,000 lawyers and consultants in 25 offices worldwide, has officially acquired Denver-...

San Francisco-based Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin PC is joining with international law firm Arnold & Por...

Jones Day helped German enterprise software giant SAP AG in a proposed buy of San Mateo-based SuccessFactors Inc. for $3.4 bil...

A roundup of M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Plaintiffs in the growing number of securities fraud class actions against Chinese-based companies are getting a shot in the a...

A pair of Inland Empire justice centers are among several long-awaited courthouse projects jumpstarted by the state's sale of ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider the validity of patents on certain diagnostic tests, the outcome of which could make...

Two recent decisions make it tougher to decide whether to appeal from the original or the amended judgment. By Anne M. Grignon...

A new law, set to take effect Jan. 1, 2012, dramatically increases the stakes.

The state Supreme Court provides employees and retirees with a new way to sue local public agencies. By Judith S. Islas of Lie...

Governments cannot solve their budget problems by repudiating contracts with their employees. By Catherine Fisk of UC Irvine, ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A prominent public relations guru and several co-defendants have agreed to a $6.25 million cash payment to settle a federal la...

A San Francisco federal judge issued two rulings last week that stymied a pair of consumer lawsuits against Apple Inc. and AT&...

Jb growth in the legal industry remained sluggish as only 100 jobs were added nationwide last month.

O'Melveny & Myers LLP added Mark Peterson as partner in Newport Beach. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions and corporat...

In what is being touted as the largest-ever residential solar project, SolarCity has finalized a critical financing agreemen...

Chief counsel at six University of California campuses have received approval for salary hikes ranging between 6 and 21 percen...

The United States Department of Justice gave the green light to Google Inc. for its $400 million planned acquisition of New Yo...

The reduction in the number of civil court reporters in counties such as Los Angeles, San Francisco and San Luis Obispo has ra...

At the request of a Santa Clara technology company facing a patent infringement suit, a federal appeals court on Friday ordere...

In denying litigator Martin D. Singer's Anti-SLAPP motion Tuesday, a judge determined that the lawyer's demand letter to a cli...

Fresno County officials will file a modification to the 1991 consent decree on early inmate releases that clarifies the term '...

California real estate boutique firm Miller Starr Regalia has announced that Anthony M. Leones will become its new managing sh...