Andre Gharakhanian uses teaching moments and feedback to help his lawyers assimilate into "Silicon Legal" style. ...

Alleged sexually violent predators don't have the right to claim they are mentally incompetent to undergo a civil commitment h...

While 20 states have challenged federal health reform, California has chosen to stay out of the fray. If Republican candidate ...

Mary Jo Levinger, a bar owner's daughter, found her gender barred her from jobs after she passed the California State Bar

Saban Brands now owns all Paul Frank assets and intellectual property, including more than 150 character designs. The purchase...

The California Supreme Court Wednesday declined to review a San Francisco civil attorney's request to toss prosecutors' murder...

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The key to benefiting from court sponsored alternative dispute resolution is to understand that parties are referred, not orde...

A California appellate court has dealt a blow to groups long seeking to block construction of a new transmission line that wou...

A relatively new concept, cloud computing could lead to some novel problems concerning jurisdiction, by Anthony I. Giacobbe Jr...

A fight heated up this week between San Diego plaintiffs' attorney Gregory Weston and Florida law firm Beck & Lee, whose a...

With technological progress predicted to continue growing exponentially for at least 20 years, what rewards and threats will r...

Seven alleged victims of a defrocked Bay Area priest convicted decades ago of child molestation, have sued a top bishop and th...

Now that a federal judge has struck down Proposition 8 as unconstitutional, the legal community is buzzing with the possibilit...

A month after a failed merger, San Francisco-based intellectual property boutique Townsend and Townsend and Crew announced Wed...

The Los Angeles U.S. attorney's office appears close to settling a discrimination lawsuit brought by an openly gay, African-Am...

More than a century ago, the judiciary closed the door on repealing the 14th Amendment's citizenship rights. Now, debate has r...

Once again, 9th Circuit judges Alex Kozinski and Stephen R. Reinhardt have helped secure coveted Supreme Court clerkships for ...

The Law Offices of Glenn H. Wechsler leased 3,026 square feet of office space for five years at 1646 N. California Blvd. in Wa...

A recent federal court decision awarding a game maker $85 million in copyright infringement damages puts the operators of pira...

By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer Three months ago, securities attorney Howard Caro took a close look at his d...

Nearly one year after the Station Fire devastated the foothills of northeastern Los Angeles, more than 1,000 people insured by...

Companies facing losses due to the Russian grain export ban may seek to recoup lost profits under "contingent business interru...

Reversal of the damages award in a patent infringement case due to inconsistency between the amount and the evidence serves as...

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed court documents Monday laying out its case that former Countrywide executives dup...

A divided panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down as unconstitutional Tuesday a 2006 law making it a crime ...

As the popularity of hybrid and electric vehicles rises in Silicon Valley, electric vehicle charging stations are becoming the...

Five more labor and employment lawyers joined Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton from Seyfarth Shaw in Los Angeles, follo...

Ever since leaving Cooley last year and landing at Dewey & LeBoeuf, the mergers and acquisitions team led by Rick Climan a...

Southern California grocery chains broke antitrust law when they conspired to share profits in order to bring a quick end to a...