Alameda County has agreed to accommodate Spanish- and Chinese-speaking voters in a deal to settle a lawsuit alleging civil rig...
The internet domain name manager Go Daddy Group Inc. turned to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for its recent sale to ...
Environmental groups pushing the federal government to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, marine vessels an...
Although an Ecuadorean judge ruled in February that Chevron Corp. should pay $18 billion for alleged environmental harm to the...
A federal judge has certified a class action against the Angels baseball team and the city of Anaheim for having too few wheel...
New laws passed last week to curtail redevelopment agencies could lead to not one suit but a slew of offshoot litigation by de...
A California State Bar panel is weighing whether to deny an undocumented immigrant admission to the bar solely on the grounds ...
Reaching ever higher has taken JoAnn Johnson from grocery store box girl to Superior Court Commissioner.
With the death of the traditional library in the Internet age - and the interaction that went along with it - law firms are re...
Senior Vice President , General Counsel and Secretary for Intuit Inc. ...
Intellectual Property
Is Use of a Competitor’s Trademark for Advertising Infringement?
By Genevieve Knollen
The legality of Google's sale of search terms is questioned. By Nick Solish of Bryan Cave ...
Discerning the difference between an "order" that is not appealable and a judgment that is appealable is not always an easy ta...
Health Care & Hospital Law
Doctors Should Determine Medical Necessity, Not Insurance Companies
By Karen Natividadn
Health insurers have too long ignored California's longstanding medical necessity standard. By William M. Shernoff and Samuel ...
Perspective
The America Invents Act: It’s Finally Time to Modernize Our Patent System
By Karen Natividadn
The first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in over 50 years is on the horizon. By Andrei Iancu and Maclain Wells of Ir...
Highly-charged battle over the car company's name speeds off the racetrack and into the courtroom. By Jonathan Michaels of Mic...
Intellectual Property
Battle for Mobile Phone Supremacy On Display in Nortel Auction
By Craig Andersonn
The successful $4.5 billion bid by a consortium led by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for a portfolio of 6,000 patents and ap...
Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP advised education software company Blackboard Inc. in its $1.64 billion all-cash acquisition by Rhode ...
Judge Martha E. Bellinger, supervising judge of Los Angeles County's East District juvenile courts, retired Friday after 20 ye...
The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Friday a Michigan ban on affirmative action in college admissions, putting i...
Judges and Judiciary
Northern District Judge Leaving to Head Judicial Research Center
By Craig Andersonn
U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Fogel, a respected mainstay of the South Bay judiciary for three decades, is leaving San Jose th...
In American Apparel Inc.'s first response to an unusual securities lawsuit against it, the company's lawyers argue shareholder...
There were no surprises in San Francisco-based Zynga Inc.'s long awaited initial public offering filed Friday. ...
A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.
Samuel Conti once sent draft dodgers to jail. Now, he's presiding over a landmark veterans' case.
Bankruptcy Court Judge Thomas Holman rules on cases with caution and precision.
A new law that seeks to force online-based businesses like Amazon.com and Overstock.com to collect sales tax in California cou...
A Northern District judge approved $22 million in settlements Wednesday in a consolidated lawsuit against Citibank NA, Foley &...
Wendy York started out on her own as a young attorney. Now, she is a leading plaintiffs' attorney in elder abuse cases. ...