In a securities fraud case, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to consider whether the plaintiff's ran out of time to bring ...

In a sign of shifting litigation strategies, the Securities and Exchange Commission has increasingly targeted companies rather...

Reaffirming its broad support of First Amendment protection, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a California law that would ha...

Pursuits off the bench help Commissioner Rocky Baio keep a level head in the courtroom

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

The most controversial politician in San Francisco may be its public defender. ...

General Counsel for the Writers Guild of America, West Inc. Los Angeles ...

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has launched a formal antitrust review of Google Inc.'s search and advertising business prac...

Don't underestimate the impact of Smith v. Bayer Corp., a recent class action decision by the U.S. Supreme Court. By St...

The playing field may be tilted toward the plaintiff, but a defendant can beat a meritless one-way fees claim. By Kurt A. Schl...

The Internal Revenue Service may soon levy a tax on anonymous individual contributors to political campaigns and committees. B...

Prompted by a request from the Commission on Judicial Performance, the attorney general's office is looking into the legality ...

Two pension funds filed a shareholder derivative lawsuit against executives and directors of Wells Fargo & Co., claiming t...

Citing ongoing budget negotiations, the Legislature has postponed Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye's June 30 state of the jud...

Construction of the state's the first major desalination plant, in Carlsbad, can move forward, a San Diego County Superior Cou...

A month after closing its San Francisco office, Skadden appears to have no regrets. ...

Michelle Ouellette, a partner with Best Best & Krieger LLP in Riverside, is grabbing the attention of legal experts for he...

Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline LLC and its now-defunct subsidiary SB Pharmco Puerto Rico Inc. have agreed to pay $40.7...

Former Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP partner files another suit against his old firm. ...

Coming at a time of cuts in public services and reduced tax coffers, the city of Chula Vista has been hit with a class action ...

Two law firms have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to protect documents produced in civil discovery from federal prosecutors who ...

A survey by the Association of Corporate Counsel shows that average salaries for Southern California in-house attorneys have g...

The San Diego-based firm known as Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan LLP changed its name to Chapin Fitzgerald Sullivan & Bottini ...

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

Judge Has Often Found Himself the First or Only Black in His Position, but Says His Forefathers Paved the Way

John F. Herlihy, a longtime Santa Clara County Superior Court judge who retired at the end of 2009 and now works as a mediator...

Pfizer Inc. will conduct the first-ever "virtual" clinical trial using mobile devices and the Internet rather than in-person d...

Should there be cameral access to federal courts and the U.S. Supreme Court? By Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of La...

How reversal of class certification in Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes will affect class treatment of employee claims. By...

Insurance agents need not expect the worst when subject to a customer complaint. By Mark B. Robinson of Michelman & Robins...