Three former San Jose-based Structure Law Group partners have broken off to launch Strategy Law in downtown San Jose , leavin...

Loosening the reins on attorney fee awards in patent cases, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave a freer hand to district ju...

The threat of data theft by foreign companies or countries is leading lawyers with international practices to adopt new practi...

Apple Inc. is seeking nearly $2.2 billion in patent infringement damages. Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. claimed Tuesday it shou...

Judge Antonio Barreto Jr. sees a huge volume and variety of matters at LA's Airport Courthouse.

With Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling facing vitriol for racist remarks he allegedly made about blacks, the statemen...

It's important to note that there are countless dedicated campus professionals who are advocates, survivors, and leaders worki...

Fifteen-year-old Audrie Pott killed herself in September 2012. She selected a particularly disturbing method of taking her lif...

The existence of an exception to the warrant requirement allowing us to search cellular telephones incident to a lawful arrest...

Our phones are windows into our lives - sometimes literally, thanks to home surveillance systems that can be accessed from a s...

The final day of testimony in the latest patent trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. provided a rare flas...

An appeals court threw out drug charges against a man because his lawyer failed to disclose he was arrested four months earlie...

An environmental group has sued a San Diego water agency, claiming that its long-term water supply plan fails to put enough em...

The question of who gets control over pre-merger communications between a company and its legal counsel in the run-up to a dea...

Bringing the court to its full 29-judge strength, the U.S. Senate confirmed Michelle T. Friedland, a San Francisco-based partn...

Should the government-as-employer have a free hand to fire a government employee in retaliation for the employee having given ...

In a letter to U.S. District Judge George H. King, the district's chief judge, David J.P. Kaloyanides, the liaison for the dis...

Justice David A. Thompson argues that the majority opinion will allow "thousands of serious sex offenders to escape their life...

6th District Justice Eugene M. Premo, who's been on the bench for 45 years, has plenty of insights.

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

Executive Vice President and General Counsel for Beats Electronics LLC Santa Monica ...

A state appellate court is weighing how far regulators can go to ban what they see as an unreasonable use of water in Californ...

A recommendation card may provide access to the green stuff, but it's not necessarily a get-out-of-jail-free card. By G. Ross ...

Last week, the U.S. high court resoundingly rejected the plaintiffs' claim that a ban on racial preferences violates the equal...

The Las Vegas-based law firm will open in Los Angeles this week with the help of two bankruptcy and restructuring specialists ...

Speakers at a special meeting of the Judicial Council Friday painted a very mixed picture of the effects of a state criminal j...

Four firms fighting clawback claims by the estate for the defunct firm got their wish Friday when U.S. District Judge Charles ...

Despite a recent slowdown in what's been a record-setting rush to public equity markets for companies in the technology and li...

The state Supreme Court won't review a lower court's ruling that struck down a law barring sex criminals from entering parks w...

ViaSat Inc., the designer, claimed a subcontractor it hired to build its satellites, Space Systems/Loral LLC, breached a non-d...