Waiting until economic conditions improve to protect your property might do more harm than good. ...

Judiciary Committee chairmen from both the Senate and the House of Representatives tried yet again to overhaul U.S. patent law...

A federal judge on Tuesday accepted the guilty plea of a man facing the death penalty in one of the first capital trials in th...

Magazine sues Los Angeles County over jail payouts, says county has failed to respond to public records requests. ...

In the course of his career, John Edward Sparks represented a marijuana smoker, oil companies, developers - and occasionally h...

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court decided Tuesday to bar California environmentalists from proceeding with a lawsuit challe...

A case against cigarette companies accused of producing false advertising could spell the end of California's unfair competiti...

Antitrust practices in Northern California are buzzing. ...

Lawyers are busy shepherding biotech deals. ...

Only days after huge cuts were announced at Latham & Watkins, Ralph Baxter, Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe's CEO, anno...

See what some of Northern California's most respected partners are doing to guide their firms through turbulent economic times...

The federal government's $787 stimulus package is likely to fuel cleantech projects.

Legal consultant Richard Gary, who served as chair of Thelen in the 1990s and early 2000s, taps into his experience to remind ...

Along with our annual survey of Northern California’s 20 largest law firms, this year the Daily Journal introduces its first M...

It certainly wasn't business as usual. Our roundup of how the local legal market has changed in the last year.

Here is a list of the 20 largest Northern California law firms.

Several members of the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday appeared to support a possible finding that the Constitution requires judges...

Once people start using a trademarked product as a verb (think Rollerblade, Xerox, Google), the owner of the mark has a hard t...

A mind is a terrible thing to waste. So is a bright, potential-filled law firm associate.

Expect the Obama administration to aggressively challenge settlements between producers of generic and brand-name drugs.

Courts have consistently turned a blind eye to false police testimony, believing the ends (a conviction) justify the means (ly...

Heller’s collapse last year highlights how quickly a firm can tumble once it is destabilized and how little flexibility it can...

Sonya Winner, lawyer at Covington and Burlingon, is defending the San Francisco 49ers from a legal challenge to the team's pat...

As state judicial elections take center stage before the U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday, the judiciary in California is quietly pu...

Under Obama, insurance companies could be in danger of losing the antitrust exemption they've had for almost 60 years.