The county commission that regulates employee relations has ruled against Los Angeles District Attorney Steve Cooley, adopting...

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed charges Tuesday against hedge fund manager Lawrence R. Goldfarb and his Bay Area ...

Hollywood's top lobbying organization on Tuesday named former U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., as its new chairman and ...

Adding their voices to those favoring immediate resumption of gay marriage, California Gov. Jerry Brown and Attorney General K...

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While patent reexaminations are more cost effective than litigation, a poorly executed reexamination can actually strengthen a...

Berkeley drugmaker Plexxikon Inc. agreed to be acquired by Tokyo's Daiichi Sankyo Co. Ltd. for $805 million up front and $130 ...

Trying to ward off plaintiffs' claims of antitrust violations, an attorney for Abbott Laboratories argued in federal court Tue...

How wage and hour class action mediation differs from any other class action mediation. By John "Jay" McCauley of PMA. ...

A new landscape of performance measures that attorneys should know. By Kimberly Lovett of the University of California, San Di...

In a case that heads to trial this week, attorneys for Thomas Nickerson say the paraplegic should have been covered by his acc...

Former state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno confirmed that he's joining Irell & Manella in Los Angeles, mainly ser...

Are the U.S. Department of Justice's proposed cost-cutting measures too good to be true? By A. Jeff Ifrah and Jeff Hamlin of I...

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has given preliminary approval to a $13.5 million settlement in favor of Dreyer's Grand...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared ready Tuesday to strike a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision setting parameters on whe...

Which ever way the federal government plans to handle it, the Obama administration's proposal to scrap Fannie Mae and Freddie ...

How companies employing behavioral targeting to serve consumers with ads and content can stay clear of litigation. By Dominiqu...

Commercial property owners are increasingly taking action against large lessees to recoup maintenance and other costs, real es...

In his fiscal 2011 budget proposal, President Barack Obama wants to end patent settlements between pharmaceutical and generic ...

Corporations can't block access to reports filed with the government based on the right of personal privacy, the U.S. Supreme ...

Alameda County Superior Court Judge Jacob Blea III may have taken some hits for a decision in a divorce case that was reversed...

A judge has given his thumbs up to a $545 million settlement of a long-running insurance class action, rejecting a consumer ad...

Arbitration agreements have no power over an employee’s right to seek an informal hearing before the Labor Commission for unpa...

A federal appellate decision that creates a circuit split on how bankruptcy courts deal with auto loans is wrong and ought to ...

Winston & Strawn LLP's hiring of a large group of Howrey LLP partners is under consideration by Winston's partnership, and...

In a ruling that could expose more deep-pocket defendants to lawsuits, the state Supreme Court held Monday that a truck driver...

As Charlie Sheen and his former television bosses continue to spar in public over the decision to suspend filming of his hit s...

The U.S. Supreme Court waded into a dispute Monday between Stanford University and a multinational biotech firm over patent ri...

Commissioner Matthew St. George started out as a gay activist, but later realized living openly while pursuing a legal career ...

San Diego County Judge Dwayne K. Moring draws on his previous careers as a prosecutor and a criminal defense lawyer to come to...