When Darryl C. Darden retired from the military a few years back, the former U.S. Army lieutenant colonel looked to mediation ...

Free exercise of religion, unlike free speech, is not at heart a political right. It is instead a right of individual conscien...

A recent cases leaves the protection afforded by the "Right to Repair" act in doubt. By Andrew Azarmi ...

If a breach occurs while using XP, it is possible to argue that security measures used are neither "reasonable" nor "appropria...

If cyber activities - such as those in Crimea - escalate such that they are supporting violent efforts, then they could be dee...

Alston & Bird LLP recently presented its 10th annual Women of Distinction award to Lisa Harrington, associate general coun...

The U.S. Senate assurred the confirmation of Michelle T. Friedland to the 9th Circuit with a 56-41 procedural vote in her favo...

The Senate Judiciary Committee has once again delayed action on a bill aimed at reducing frivolous patent infringement lawsuit...

Two years ago, lawyers with McDermott Will & Emery LLP were disqualified for representing clients on both sides of a paten...

A federal three-judge panel appointed former California appellate justice Elwood Lui to a newly-created position in which he w...

The San Francisco-based software startup hopes to raise up to $150 million, according to its Securities and Exchange Commissio...

The bar's trial counsel has improperly withheld no contest pleas in the settlement of bar disciplinary matters, opening up cl...

The program will award $5,000 to $15,000 to bar associations, courts, law schools or other groups that propose to employ new l...

In this installment of our series, we share experiences unique to female attorneys and their interactions with male attorneys ...

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

Newly filed depositions shed light on genesis of Silicon Valley recruiting policies.

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

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General Counsel of Prosper Marketplace Inc. San Francisco ...

One appellate court has arguably tightened the application of the "sophisticated user" defense in California. By Brian Davies ...

The European Parliament recently passed a draft directive titled the Network and Information Security Directive. By Grant Davi...

The U.S. high court recently resolved a three-way split amonth the circuits regarding who has standing to bring a false advert...

A San Bernardino County judge got a break last week when he won an unusual lawsuit against the county that allowed him to keep...

The plaintiffs settled a wage and hour lawsuit with Bank of America Corp. and a subsidiary for $5.8 million, resolving the emp...

Moody's Investor Service Inc. and Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC asked an appellate court to throw out the lawsu...

Benjamin Blakeman balked after receiving a bill from the agency seeking upwards of $10,000, claiming his clients failed to re...

Goodwin Procter LLP grabbed corporate partner Rezwan D. Pavri from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC on Wednesday, welco...

It's a plaintiffs' attorney's dream: discovery unearthing a record in which the defendants agree to work out agreements "verba...

Just under half of California's 2013 law school graduates had found good lawyer jobs by mid-February, compared to 57 percent n...

In three separate schemes in Russia, Poland and Mexico, employees of Hewlett-Packard Co. bribed foreign government officials w...