Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP partner Jahan C. Sagafi is leaving to open a San Francisco office for New York-base...

The State Bar can't collect attorney fees when it wins an anti-SLAPP motion ridding itself of a lawsuit by a lawyer upset over...

A secret national security program has for years delayed and denied citizenship applications and other immigration benefits re...

Police officers who step past the blue wall of silence that often shields law enforcement misdeeds got strong support Wednesda...

Are we going to continue to pay a small fraction of the workforce a wage so low that they have to rely on government benefits ...

At acceleration trial, expert witnesses testified that a Camry involved in an acceleration crash was both speeding and braking.

After a token increase in funding last month, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye has announced a set of ...

If the provisions of California Civil Code Section 1942.4 are met, neither the landlord nor the homeowner's insurance companie...

The wording of the amended statutes may mean that debtors will face new and unanticipated federal and state tax liability due ...

The system is broken. As prices climb ever higher and the bundle becomes ever more unwieldy, programmers continue their rush t...

The prospect of tapping into large known deep water reserves in Mexico may create a gold rush effect because of the certainty ...

Jack Slobodin, a pioneering intellectual property specialist, died earlier this month at the age of 78. He paired his knowledg...

Attorneys in the Southland say Patricia Egan Daehnke brings an enthusiastic, inclusive approach to the post of Los Angeles Cou...

Following in the footsteps of colleague Donna L. Wilson, a BuckleySandler LLP litigator has joined Manatt, Phelps & Philli...

In a state with traffic-choked freeways and counties as large as some Eastern states, the recent budget-driven closures of nea...

Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, a small firm founded in June by three female DLA Piper partners, has added three more attorney...

Based on appellate guidance, companies and their attorneys are now presenting sophisticated patent damages assessments from ec...

Battle lines in the fight over fuel economy claims made against automobile manufacturing giant Hyundai Motor Co. and its subsi...

The first-to-file bar fulfills the FCA's first policy goal by triggering a "race to the courthouse" that incentivizes would-be...

Verdicts and rulings are static: They rest on a "snapshot" of the facts and law at a specific moment in time. The question the...

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

State Supreme Court Justice Marvin Baxter will step down in September from an influential committee that advises judicial bran...

Influential San Francisco antitrust litigator Eugene Chatham Crew died Thursday at the age of 82. Senior counsel at Kilpatrick...

Private attorneys who defend indigent clients will have to work for less pay starting Sept. 1, the executive committee of the ...

A judge on Monday ordered Toyota Motor Corp.'s North American CEO to face questions about his company's brake override system ...

A judge slashed the attorneys' fees award Monday while approving the final settlement agreement in a long-running antitrust cl...

The Howrey LLP estate on Friday agreed to settle claims against Baker & Hostetler LLP worth $37 million over its recruitme...

A factfinder has yet to determine that a social media account contains protectable trade secrets. By Ellen P. Liu and Constanc...

Known as a transformative leader in legal education, Christopher Edley Jr. stepped down Monday due to health reasons. His app...

Law enforcement officers can be liable for failing to conduct background checks or to call a psychiatric team preceding their ...