In yet another blow to their efforts to hold Wal-Mart Stores Inc. responsible for alleged systemic gender discrimination, for...

A federal judge has awarded two Chinese women $1.2 million, finding the U.S. government liable for emotional distress they suf...

Frank Johnson enjoys his trial assignment, a big switch from his previous general civil calendar.

The less-than-profitable resolution of the Kmart case likely indicates the popular employment lawsuits don't have any oomph be...

The lone dissenter in the SEC warned that the new rule "will prove be a great boon to the fraudster" and could "lead to econom...

The National Transportation Safety Board issued a recommendation that all 50 states ban any form of cell phone use while drivi...

Does the state of national security put the Silicon Valley business model in jeopardy? By Martin Kenney ...

A judge denied a motion to disqualify Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP from representing Snapchat in litigation regar...

Riding a wave of momentum after action from the Obama administration, Apple Inc. is seeking to step up the pressure this week ...

Vinson & Elkins LLP has recruited the former managing partner of Hogan Lovells US LLP's Bay Area offices. ...

Attorneys for Toyota Motor Corp. are fighting plaintiffs' efforts to require its top North American executive to testify in pe...

A Garden Grove lawyer already on trial for taking illegal advance fees for mortgage modification work has been put on inactive...

California Speaker of the Assembly John Perez on Monday criticized a push by trial lawyers and consumer advocates to lift the ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, who is presiding over a ream of Toyota unintended acceleration case...

In a decision expected to change how agencies must evaluate the environmental impacts of large infrastructure projects, a divi...

At the Legislature's directive, the California Law Revision Commission is set to begin studying the relationship between media...

Stockton Judge Roger Ross recovered from a life-threatening illness to reassume the bench.

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

Upstart website Gigit.com allows individuals to hire bands to play shows at a private venue. But it's also gained the attentio...

General Counsel for Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. Santa Monica ...

Re: "Bills May Set Limits on Fees Lawyers Charge Immigrants," June 24. By Lisa Baker Jones ...

As the state high court recently held, prosecutors must actually produce evidence rather than just arguments. The U.S. high co...

Is modern American health care truly at a strange new crossroads, or have we as a nation traveled this path before? By Craig B...

Mountain View-based intellectual property litigation boutique Turner Boyd LLP found another litigator to join its steadily gro...

Law school financing, accreditation and culture require dramatic changes, according to preliminary recommendations from a spec...

During a surge of national employment growth in July, the U.S. legal sector added 2,800 jobs, according to a report released F...

A 9th Circuit panel has directed opposing counsel to file further briefing on whether lawyers can peremptorily strike prospect...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is adding a new partner in its corporate and emerging growth companies practice gr...

What started out as a brief stint away from O'Melveny & Myers LLP turned into a two-year leave of absence when Steve Olson...

An Alameda County judge has sided with the food industry in a closely-watched case in which the makers of products such as bab...