Before our economic recovery is driven onto the rocks by the next wave of patent trolls, Washington needs to act decisively, w...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor faced some tough questions on the second day of her confirmation hearing Tuesday, b...

The paradigm shift toward judges relying heavily on law clerks is troublesome, writes Thomas E. Baker.

With the recession fueling millions of layoffs, these 10 lawyers had a busy time defending employers from lawsuits.

Most Los Angeles County courtrooms are closed today and only a skeleton crew of staff will be on hand to handle urgent matters...

A little over a month after dismissing Chief Trial Counsel Scott Drexel, State Bar leaders seem to be moving forward with the ...

Thomas A. Saenz will take over as president and general counsel of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund next ...

As the economy puts more pressure on firms, a onetime guarantee of opportunities sees its luster dim.

San Francisco-based Twitter Inc., the fast-growing and increasingly prominent micro-blogging service, has reached into Google ...

A new Joint Budget Committee plan will greatly reduce proposed budget cutbacks, saving jobs and avoiding more shake-ups to our...

The FTC has cast its net to include blogs, message boards and street teams among those parties that would be subject to its ne...

A recent appellate court decision will likely result in more insurance coverage disputes in mixed actions where some claims ar...

Republicans on Monday indicated they will aggressively question U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor about her judicial ...

In a bid to resolve the state's budget crisis, a former college president is asking the California Supreme Court to invalidate...

After several years of debate, webcasting radio stations have finally reached a deal with copyright holders on royalty rates, ...

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...

The initial public offerings on June 23 of Chinese companies Duoyuan Global Water Inc. and Chemspec International Ltd. marked ...

Morrison & Foerster and Wilson Sonsini represented the parties in a newly formed joint venture planning to use "DNA shuff...

Firms should know what steps to take when a messenger company mishap prevents documents from making it to the court on time, w...

A long-awaited report released Friday by inspectors general from the Justice Department and several intelligence agencies ques...

Consultants can only sell the advice that clients are willing to buy, writes Edwin B. Reeser.

Far from molesting young boys sent to him for psychotherapy as his accusers claim, William Hamilton Ayres insisted from the wi...

An important but unanswered question is whether trading in the state's IOUs is subject to federal and state securities laws, w...

Despite a cloudy economy, attorney Edwin Feo of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy helped SunPower Corp., a San Jose-based so...

Payments to state lobbying firms are down $2.1 million during the first quarter of 2009 compared to the first quarter last yea...

For U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, 60 is the magic number. That's how many Democratic votes there are in the U.S....

A recent case provides employers and defense counsel with an alternative means to end class actions via individual settlement,...

After stints assisting sole practitioners and making partner at a small firm, Stuart Liner decided to open his own shop. Over ...

First it was real estate, then Wall Street. Now, has the movie star bubble burst? Talent deals are undergoing a marked restruc...

The Assembly Judiciary Committee passed legislation on Thursday that would extend the usual benefits of marriage to same-sex c...