Unmanaged illegal Internet traffic is a significant source of network congestion and cost that impedes investment in broadband...
California Supreme Court
High Court Rejects Interest Fees on Bad Checks
By Laura Ernden
In a win for consumers during tough financial times, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that people who write bad check...
The impact of having judges with different life histories, especially in appellate cases decided by panels, is hard to quantif...
Filmmakers accepting money to finance their projects must take securities issues seriously, writes Zac Locke. ...
The federal government is prosecuting a former pharmaceutical executive accused of fraudulently and illegally marketing a drug...
Despite a budget outlook so bleak that courts are closing an extra day a month, the AOC is paying for 130 new judges and other...
Criminal defendants' access to electronically stored information varies from court to court because of the lack of uniform rul...
Readers weigh in on the validity of MICRA and jury instructions governing reasonable doubt.
Drop strangers into the wilderness, make them plot against one another and force them to eat bugs - that's just asking for a l...
President Obama made three nominations for district judges in California on Friday -- including two that would represent histo...
President Barack Obama on Friday nominated Benjamin Wagner for U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of California. Currently ...
At Fenwick & West, one of Silicon Valley's quintessential legal shops, there's more than one way to the top. The poster ch...
The number of jobs lost in the legal sector slowed again during July after spiking in June, but roughly 2,700 positions were s...
E-discovery assumes a critical role unique to criminal proceedings, write Maureen Duffy-Lewis and Daniel B. Garrie and Daniel ...
The status of Heller Ehrman's former headquarters mandates rethinking of the approach that building owners apply to making lea...
San Diego County Superior Court, starting Sept. 16, will close on the third Wednesday of each month through June 2010. ...
Transactions
Navigating the Waters of the Cayman Islands' New Merger Law
By David Houstonn
Attorneys at O'Melveny & Myers put the Cayman Islands' new merger statute to its first test when their client, Auvitek Int...
Former deputy DA Walt Lewis explains how his worldview was turned upside down by the criminal justice system in his book "The ...
New laws aimed at reclaiming "abandoned" gift cards raise serious concerns about the definition of private property, write Don...
The word on the street: The PTO is tweaking its software to fix a problem with patent timing. ...
Law Practice
Investigation Becomes Epilogue for Late Labor Leader's Life
By Greg Katzn
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'...
Law Practice
New U.S. Plan for Detaining Immigrants Is Short on Specifics
By Sandra Hernandezn
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...