The 9th Circuit recently launched a hot potato regarding minimum statutory damages onto the state Supreme Court's docket. By ...

A deputy district attorney and a defense lawyer used the lead detective's testimony to support their versions of whether a law...

Judges explain themselves at length and sign their work in opinions and orders at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But s...

Several days after accusations surfaced that state Sen. Ronald S. Calderon took bribes, his lawyer came out swinging Wednesday...

Stephanie Sontag set a career goal and followed through.

This is the first in a series of articles exploring the dysfunctional relationships between attorneys. By Paul Fisher and Juli...

As lending rises for the fourth straight year, lawyers are working with their clients to understand what have become more comp...

I know firsthand that those whose homes are destroyed by fire or other perils will face many challenges in the following days ...

Irma E. Gonzalez is one of the rare federal judges from the Southern District to take on a role as a neutral, having started o...

Defense attorneys discussed filing a demurrer and said they plan to ask the court to determine whether the details of JPMorgan...

The workers' compensation lawyer and longtime Rose, Klein & Marias LLP partner died Nov. 2 at the age of 77. He is remembe...

The OC Register fought and won an appeal from a disgruntled reader who claimed the newspaper violated the terms of its user ag...

For years, San Bernardino County court officials have eagerly awaited the opening of a new courthouse. But the facility's plan...

As Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. open a patent damages retrial in San Jose, observers said a jury verdict is unl...

Firm represents investment arm of Tsinghua University in its purchase of RDA Microelectronics Inc., a Shanghai-based and U.S.-...

Pepper Hamilton LLP has opened its third California office in Redwood Shores with three partners from Goodwin Procter LLP's Me...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Paul S. Grewal is giving Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. and Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP a ch...

A roundup of weekly mergers & acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

As the explosion of cases claiming food companies mislabel products make its way through the courts, Northern District judges,...

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for Western Digital Corp. Irvine ...

By James Grafton Randall ...

The misimpression that veterans are passive recipients of state and federal dollars denies the agency of our veterans and the ...

A recent decision by a Delaware court is confirmation of courts' willingness to rein in plaintiffs' firms who attempt to push ...

Opponents of the state's troubled $68 billion high speed rail project may have failed to convince a Sacramento County judge Fr...

A federal judge on Friday certified a class of all current and former Division I college football players who claim the Nation...

The nationwide legal sector lost jobs in October, according to a government report, making it the first month the industry has...

The departure of the gaming giant's chief legal counsel, Reginald D. Davis, comes in wake of a companywide reorganization. ...

Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Hewlett-Packard Co. and the National ...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Thursday threw out the conviction of 53-year-old Kash Delano Register, who was wr...

Jason D. Kipnis has joined the Palo Alto office of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr as a partner after spending the vast ...