The U.S. Supreme Court is favoring free market philosophy over patent holders' rights, a federal judge said Thursday before a ...

An Israeli banker will plead guilty today to charges related to an alleged tax fraud and money laundering conspiracy involving...

California’s Code of Civil Procedure contains a partial exception to the general rule that can allow parties — and not necessa...

Despite the hype, the impact of a recent 9th Circuit decision on text messages is minimal for any employer that carefully draf...

In the face of angry Democratic lawmakers, UC Berkeley law professor John Yoo Thursday defended his role in shaping the Bush a...

A jury has awarded $5.4 million to the family of a movie studio laborer who died after being exposed to asbestos while working...

Wilma J. Pinder, the first female assistant city attorney to represent the Department of Water and Power, is retiring today af...

To the end of his long career, Senior Circuit Judge Warren John Ferguson retained a strong liberal voice that spoke forcefully...

Web Exclusive - Agents with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the FBI arrested one of the immigrations agency's own lawy...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that California and other western states should get a second chance to escape from unfav...

The Impact Fund, a legal foundation focused on funding complex public interest impact litigation, has added two new board memb...

Saving ExxonMobil Corp. $2 billion, the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday slashed the $2.5 billion punitive damages award for the f...

After leading a platoon in Vietnam and earning a law degree in Sacramento, W. Bruce Watson rediscovered his hometown, Eureka, ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday made it difficult for prosecutors to use a murder victim's earlier account of domestic violen...

The long line of litigants suing Countrywide Financial and its executives over the bank's subprime lending and mortgage resell...

For coverage purposes, it is the insured's burden to show by facts alleged in a complaint or other known facts that particular...

Atlanta-based Troutman Sanders will be making a foray into the California market with the acquisition of Ross, Dixon & Bel...

It is time for family law judges to stop excusing people simply because it is easier to do that than to enforce the court's or...

Parties in mediation settlement talks who decline to make an opening statement are missing out on a valuable opportunity, writ...

A San Francisco native and former police officer is taking over the top judicial spot on the Superior Court bench. ...

A San Francisco federal judge has ruled that an Abbott Laboratories patent for technology used in a blood-glucose measuring de...

A judge on Wednesday threw out a lawsuit that sought to overturn Special Order 40, a decades-old police policy that bars offi...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs may not be taking care of the country's former military personnel, but a federal judge...

A sharply divided U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment bars states f...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro has pulled in Mike Corfield as partner to practice in business and real estate matters.

The video game industry may not be ready for top billing yet, but it's certainly turning heads. ...

Silicon Valley might be known as the cutting-edge, intellectual preperty hub, but it's the Los Angeles-based Central District ...

As the economy slides, litigation soars, from backdating to bankruptcy cases. ...

As the subprime lending crisis began claiming victims and the credit market tightened, phones of local banktruptcy lawyers beg...

Who says deals are drying up? Not Southern California's leading M&A lawyers. For them, business is better than ever, as th...