Venture capital investment in clean technology continued its recovery from the economic downturn in the second quarter of 2010...
Multidistrict litigation has spiked in response to Toyota's unintended acceleration and the Gulf oil spill. Brian Kabateck and...
Barry McDonald of Pepperdine University School of Law explores how the Supreme Court has allowed humanitarian lawyers to couns...
Criminal
A Clearer Vision: Cross-Racial Eyewitness Identification Testimony
By Carla Pinedan
New eyewitness study shines light on significant margin of error in cross-racial recognition of faces, prompting Harvey Gee of...
William J. Howatt, a JAMS mediator in San Diego, has a passion for rules of evidence and civil procedure. Lawyers say he works...
Attorneys are working on a structure for the $2.9 billion-plus sale of Los Angeles-based Abraxis BioScience Inc. that's normal...
For the second time in two months, the California Supreme Court ruled in favor of the prosecution in a case involving a deport...
In an unfortunate twist for Southern California's hard-up legal market, the much-coveted defense work on Toyota's unintended a...
Biopharmaceutical company Celgene Corp. acquired Abraxis BioScience Inc. in a $2.9 billion deal approved by both companies' bo...
After the plaintiffs challenging the constitutionality of Proposition 8 seized on language from a U.S. Supreme Court ruling as...
It's now up to a jury to give the final answer in a month-long trial over hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from the ...
Doug Luftman, Palm Inc.'s chief intellectual property counsel, has landed at CBS Interactive Inc. as its vice president and ch...
An Orange County Superior Court judge abused his discretion by denying a trial date continuance for a pro se litigant who didn...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Defendant's Case Goes to New Judge
By John Roemer
A Lake County contract public defender's blunders plus flawed reasoning by a trial judge led a state appellate panel Wednesday...
After four years fighting against the governor for parole, a California court of appeals appears to handed a definitive win to...
A Pasadena law firm filed a class action Wednesday against two trucking companies, claiming hundreds of truck drivers at the p...
Heading into his final months in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed a new appellate justice and 16 Supe...
The Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared up murky disclosure rules between companies and shareholders, say Edward Ha...
The Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation's attempt to stop the pyrotechnics display fizzled Wednesday after Judge Linda Qui...
Defendants accused of trademark infringement should be able to claim the jus tertii defense when the plaintiff's own us...
On the second day of questioning for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Republican senators intensified their focus on co...
San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Dennis Riordan is hoping that Monday's gun rights ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court wil...
Intellectual Property
Unanimous Indecision: Important Lessons From the Bilski Court
By Carla Pinedan
Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw are back to square one after 13 years of fighting for their business method patent for hedging ...
David Hricik guides practitioners through the maze of professional ethical issues that can arise during patent litigation. ...
Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco presence has lasted for 125 years and a new real estate deal ensures it will stay ther...
Through strategic partnerships with organizations like Sunnyvale-based Plug and Play Tech Center, more startup lawyers are gam...
Los Angeles County Judge Jon Robert Takasugi's father was a legendary state and federal court judge after whom the son tries t...
The family of a mentally-ill woman who went missing after she was released from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 filed a sec...
A Cuban national who pretended to be an attorney in an elaborate scheme to bill other immigrants for his purported legal servi...