Alan H. MacPherson, a patent law expert known for his technical expertise and rainmaking ability, whose career included stints...

Entering into a transaction agreement with a special purpose acquisition company can be more complicated and burdensome than a...

The panel unanimously rejected claims made by Kaiser lawyers and staff that Dr. Michael Martinucci was a poorly performing phy...

Lawyers and a federal judge all made mistakes, but their blunders did not derail a union's wage-and-hour class action against ...

Starting Jan. 2, most federal magistrate judges will be assigned certain types of civil cases as part of a two-year pilot prog...

1st District Court of Appeal Justice Mark B. Simons is also known for his analytical skills and intellectual curiosity. He's e...

Using civil and criminal laws creatively, prosecutors bring a wide variety of actions on behalf of communities ravaged by gang...

Ropes & Gray snagged San Francisco assistant U.S. Attorney Michael Li-Ming Wong to join the firm’s government enforcement ...

The crowded Los Angeles mediation market is about to get a new competitor. ...

The Los Angeles affiliate of Dreier LLP will continue to operate as a separate entity from its New York headquarters now that ...

The Anti-Defamation League, a national civil rights organization that raises awareness of anti-Semitism and bigotry, will hono...

The firms K&L Gates and Chicago-based Bell, Boyd & Lloyd are considering a possible merger next year, hoping the combi...

AB 2738 was borne out of the collaborative efforts of builders and subcontractors working closely together to gain consensus i...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to take up Sunnyvale-based Finisar Corp.'s efforts to reinstate a $104 million paten...

California courts of appeal have allowed government entities and their employees to use the anti-SLAPP statute to strike lawsu...

Roman Polanski's recent allegations of judicial and prosecutorial misconduct in the sentencing phase of his 1970s statutory ra...

Declaring that school officials "may need an incentive" to protect "special needs" students from attack, an appellate panel in...

Rick Frenkel, the one-time "Patent Troll Tracker" who was sued earlier this year along with his former employer, Cisco Systems...

County Superior Court Judge Kathryne A. Stoltz will leave the Van Nuys Courthouse this month after 23 years on the bench. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to overturn the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, for the third time this term, over an antitru...

Two legendary retired San Francisco homicide inspectors, one a former police chief, will remain the target of a civil rights s...

Attorneys trying to persuade a judge to award them lodestar fees should stress they used conservative billing practices and ma...

Latham & Watkins has hired a long-time U.S. Department of Justice attorney as a partner in the firm's Washington D.C. office.

A trial judge in Los Angeles went too far in trying to help movie-going wheelchair users, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...

Stanford Law School will unveil a first-of-its-kind online database today that tracks every patent lawsuit filed in the United...

Immigration officials were wrong to strip the immigrant choir director of a Los Angeles--area Korean Presbyterian church of hi...

A recent 9th Circuit decision illustrates that persuading the Court of Appeals to intercede in ongoing trial court proceedings...

A second defendant in the spring bombing of a federal court building and Federal Express distribution center in San Diego has ...

The dissolving Heller Ehrman found itself in more hot water last week when the landlord of its former San Francisco headquarte...

Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal nabbed a leading insurance regulatory lawyer to gear up for what the firm believes will be a...