A jury says Microsoft copied the design of an Alcatel-Lucent computer system. A judge later adds millions in prejudgment inter...

In a hand-slap to Starbucks, a judge says the coffee house supervisors can't dip into baristas' gratuity jars. ...

Winning a verdict against an insurance broker required educating jurors on the effects of a nation's currency collapse. ...

Big business verdicts trump personal injury awards by a wide margin. ...

Two California default judgments totaling $1.1 billion are among the largest awards last year. ...

When a Wal-Mart supplier wouldn't pay up, a product maker sued. A jury awarded $46 million, rewarding an out-of-work lawyer. ...

Multimedia service provider ICO said Boeing's satellite division reneged on a promised telecommunications network. Jurors agre...

A roundup of the top plaintiffs' verdicts in California in 2008 and interviews with the lawyers who tried the cases. ...

Under our marital property system, sharing and caring are illusory concepts trumped by the right to reimbursement, writes Char...

After more than three weeks of trial, a San Francisco federal jury issued two separate verdicts maintaining the status quo bet...

Like billboards, trial graphics have limited space and a short timespan in which to grab jurors' attention, writes G. Christop...

California's first black congresswoman announced Tuesday she will become a mediator, now that her recent tenure as a county su...

If you are developing a particularly close relationship with your client - close enough to consider going into business togeth...

After much ado, Heller Ehrman's dissolution committee is nearing a deal with the firm's largest unsecured creditor, its San Fr...

With emergency rooms filled, reimbursements sagging and dozens of hospitals nearing bankruptcy across the state, ER doctors ha...

Jurors agreed a utility's failure to light a tower near a Marine base caused a nighttime crash that killed four. ...

A data-analyzing organization, claiming that pillmaker Pfizer sought to rig its research, persuades a jury to award damages. ...

Chicago-based Playboy Enterprises, Inc. promoted attorney Jim Dietle to senior vice president, business & legal affairs in...

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

Former Los Angeles County District Attorney John Van de Kamp can claim absolute immunity in a civil rights lawsuit for claims ...

Eric Garner grew up playing alongside a creek that meandered through his family's backyard in North Carolina. This month, the ...

An Irvine lawyer on Monday withdrew as counsel from a class action in which he served as the lead plaintiff's lawyer after he ...

Intel Corp., defending a costly and long-running antitrust complaint by competitor Advanced Micro Devices Inc., has sued one o...

Ron Rosen is one of those lucky lawyers who's been able to weave together his work and his passion. Now he's written a book th...

President Barack Obama Monday all but guaranteed California will be able to enact a long-stalled law aimed at combating climat...

Taco Bell is fully responsible for breaching a contract with creators of the precursor to the famous "Yo Quiero Taco Bell" Chi...

If Proposition 8 is ultimately upheld, blame our too-supportive attorney general, writes Peter Scheer. - Forum Column ...

The state’s gay workers shouldn’t have to promise to defend a document that excludes them, writes M. Katherine Baird Darmer. -...