Amid concerns over the long-term future of patent litigation, a handful of prominent law firms are doubling down on the future...

California is the only state that does not impose an ethical obligation on criminal prosecutors to turn over exculpatory evide...

Of a dozen lawyers disbarred recently by order of the state Supreme Court, more than half lost their license primarily for not...

Three prominent Los Angeles plaintiffs' firms are off the hook on claims they withheld millions from clients following a $100 ...

Vice President and General Counsel Fox Restaurant Concepts Phoenix ...

Controversy is brewing about whether stockholder activists and their representatives on the board have a conflict of interest ...

In state and federal courts today, there is prosecutorial wrongdoing aplenty, and next to nothing is ever done about it. "Stac...

The 9th Circuit was recently confronted with Lanham Act false endorsement claims brought by the late Bob Marley's children aga...

Renowned health care attorneys Noah D. Rosenberg, Lenard I. Pick and Lauren W. Wilson have joined Baker & Hostetler LLP in...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patricia M. Schnegg, a dynamo in the judiciary who volunteered for a variety of legal ...

Despite GoDaddy's highly watched public debut Wednesday, the number of private companies jumping into the public realm has dro...

What do you do when Mikhail Gorbachev has to cancel on you? Give Archbishop Desmond M. Tutu a call, of course. ...

A Los Angeles federal judge has tossed one of last year's largest patent trial awards and ordered a new trial on damages after...

The former chief of the criminal division in the Northern District U.S. attorney's office has departed Munger, Tolles & Ol...

Colorado's neighboring states, Nebraska and Oklahoma, have invoked the high court's original and exclusive jurisdiction to hea...

Hulu LLC's defeat of claims it shared information about what videos its users watch with Facebook Inc. knocked out the use of ...

Ellen Pao's defeat could set the bar higher for taking gender discrimination suits or taking those cases to a jury trial. ...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

A recent case teaches that insurers must promptly rescind the policy and return all premiums upon learning of material misrepr...

Hulu LLC successfully knocked out all claims from a privacy class action late Tuesday. ...

A magistrate judge should have tried harder to get witnesses to testify in a trial concerning claims that prison guards used e...

Downey Brand LLP opened a new office in Cupertino with a group of 22 patent professionals from Womble Carlyle Sandridge & ...

Litigator E. Randol Schoenberg is brought to life by Ryan Reynolds in "Woman in Gold," following five Jewish heirs' journey t...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned the death penalty for an inmate whose history of sexual abuse as a minor was ...

After an eight-week trial in Kern County Superior Court, the jury voted 10-2 to deny the plaintiff, Macpherson Oil Co., any re...

U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh granted a withdrawal of an objection letter to $415 million agreement in Silicon Valley antitrust...

Frustrated lawyers needing an answer on no-class-action arbitration clauses in consumer contracts have gotten no help so far f...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Jan Adler has many passions but maintains a cerebral tone in the courtroom.

Robert S. Tesler will oversee the legal needs of the San Francisco-based company, which develops advertising management softwa...

County bar directors adopted a resolution criticizing prosecutors for booting the judge from other cases as "punitive and ret...