The word on the street: The PTO is tweaking its software to fix a problem with patent timing. ...

A review of public records and interviews with those familiar with the Voter Improvement Project and its founder, Miguel Contr...

Lawyers say Judge Alfonso Fernandez isn't afraid of new approaches in his Santa Clara County Court, where he hears sexually vi...

Pamela L. Washington, General Counsel, Crystal Stairs Inc. ...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Now that Sonia Sotomayor's appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court has been confirmed by the Senate, a select band of attorneys ...

In less than two weeks' time, San Francisco-based Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe nailed down bargains in two of the world'...

Federal officials unveiled plans Thursday to overhaul the nation's troubled immigration detention system but offered few speci...

Court officials say two video game companies locked in a legal battle over a video game starring actor Jack Black have reached...

Federal judges in the Northern district of California have chosen assistant U.S. attorney Laurel D. Beeler to become the distr...

Gordon Erspamer of Morrison & Foerster in San Francisco and Manatt Phelps and Phillips's Holocaust Survivors Justiece Netw...

When an insurer fails to comply with the requirements of the Fair Claims Settlement Practices Act, it may not be able to asser...

Mediator Joseph J. Carson started out as a paperboy, and also worked as a plumber, garbage collector and maintenance man befor...

A wave of looming maturities on securitized commercial real estate loans has California lawyers hard at work for borrowers who...

Mandatory arbitration clauses in employment agreements disproportionally favor employers, write Gay Crosthwait Grunfeld and Nu...

Employers with zero-tolerance policies against workplace violence could find themselves sued by an employee claiming self defe...

Developing countries need to be able to access green technology at relatively low transaction costs, write Bryan A. Liang and ...

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

Two years after regulators launched an investigation of New Century Financial Corp., the case has bogged down, while charges h...

Under a little known provision found deep in the 27-page court budget trailer bill signed into law last month, a court may now...

Robert M. Takasugi, the nation's first Japanese-American federal judge and a man whose childhood experience in a World War II ...

The State Bar needs to get a better handle on its money, including its rapidly growing discipline costs, according to a recent...

Where do United, Target, or other corporations with far-flung operations maintain their principal place of business? It depend...

Delaware has done a remarkable job in convincing out-of-state companies to forsake their headquarters' states and incorporate ...

A Senate bill declares that the Clean Water Act is intended to cover even small and intermittent streams, writes Norman A. Dup...

An appellate court recently validated the special relationship between project applicants and the agencies considering their p...

Judd Kessler debunks bad advice lawyers are given about running a practice in "Dangerous Law Practice Myths, Lies and Stupidit...

A West Hills attorney was arrested late Tuesday at a Century City law office and charged with obstructing a grand jury proceed...

The ink is barely dry on an order issued Tuesday by a panel of federal judges that the state of California come up with a plan...

Federal authorities are investigating Los Angeles City Councilman Jose Huizar and former Los Angeles Unified School Board memb...