Google Inc. won its bid for a Northern California judge to consider a patent litigation showdown against an Apple Inc.-backed ...

In this mock negotiation, Rick Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP debate the specific performance remedy...

In recent years, defendants in federal court have increasingly used FRCP 68 offers as strategic tools to fend off class action...

Alameda Superior Court Judge George Hernandez Jr. issued a temporary restraining order this week to ensure students at a South...

A giant logging company and others blamed for the massive 2007 "moonlight fire" in Northern California asked a federal judge o...

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

The Hall of Justice served as the apex of L.A.'s criminal justice system from 1925 until 1994. County officials on Wednesday r...

General Counsel, Chief Administrative Officer and Vice President of Customer and Expert Operations JustAnswer LLC San Fran...

While simple in concept, many questions remain as to the scope of a statute rendering a "client employer" liable for obligati...

Last month, outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced a proposal to increase dramatically the size of monetary awar...

Accused of defrauding investors with a bogus buyout claim, former Motionloft Inc. CEO Jonathan Edward Mills has pleaded guilty...

Animal Law Guild holds inaugural conference ...

Denied certification for a class action against Thomas Jefferson School of Law, the attorney representing graduates angry abou...

Lawsuit filed on behalf of TSA officer fatally shot last year ...

Los Angeles-based Fox Sports has merged its domestic and international legal and business groups and promoted the executive vi...

The almost 20-year-old Orange County-based insolvency boutique Weiland, Golden, Smiley, Wang Ekvall & Strok LLP has split ...

Fenwick & West made a hiring splash by grabbing the SEC's number two in San Francisco. Michael Dicke is expected to join t...

Among U.S.-based firms, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates jumped 12 spots from where it had been r...

Nearly 1.5 million Californians currently have their wages garnished. For these workers the garnishment of up to one quarter o...

Bingham's backpack project continues for 13th year ...

After 24 years on the bench, new California Judges Association President Judge Joan P. Weber vows to bring visibility to the j...

The FBI's authority to make warrantless demands for telecommunication companies' customer records drew challenges and skeptici...

A roundup of recent M&A, IPO and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Should non-citizens be permitted to serve in the U.S. armed forces? Recent news articles seem to suggest this is a controversi...

Excess insurance is essential to businesses of medium or larger size because it provides catastrophe coverage at much lesser r...

On Sept. 29, California made an unfortunate move away from meaningfully protecting endangered and threatened species when Gov....

California has just enacted a far-reaching set of laws which grants many new statutory rights for patients in private resident...

PepsiCo Inc. has named Associate Attorney General Tony West as the company's next general counsel. West is a former San Franci...

Richard J. Welch, co-chairman of Bingham McCutchen LLP's corporate practice, former managing partner of the firm's L.A. office...

Santa Monica-based solar technology company SolarReserve LLC announced Tuesday the appointment of its first vice president and...