Bingham McCutchen LLP litigation partner Peter Obstler plans to jump to Arnold & Porter LLP in San Francisco on June 18, h...

Senior Vice President and General Counsel for BioMarin Pharmaceutical Inc. Novato ...

Kmart cashiers have won another chance to prove that the retailer should have provided them seated workstations in an ongoing ...

Chip designer Rambus Inc.'s legal crusade against technology companies over patent infringement and antitrust claims ended in ...

Paul Hastings LLP is representing Dole Food Co. Inc. Chairman and CEO David H. Murdock in his $645 million unsolicited offer t...

The Los Angeles County Superior Court announced 177 layoffs and the elimination of hundreds of vacant positions to help close ...

A federal judge on Wednesday threw out Southern California Institute of Law's challenge to new regulations requiring that at l...

In the first ruling of its kind, a U.S. Patent and Trademark Office board created by the 2011 patent reform law has ruled that...

Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...

Los Angeles-based developer The Ratkovich Co., in partnership with National Real Estate Advisors and Blue Vista Capital Manage...

Former unpaid interns who sued Fox Searchlight Pictures prevailed Tuesday when a judge granted conditional certification to a ...

The Assembly Committee on Public Safety on Tuesday approved SB649, which would allow county prosecutors the discretion to char...

Coblentz Patch Duffy & Bass LLP, a 75-attorney San Francisco firm, added trial lawyer Jessica Grant as a partner. She rece...

Texas-based Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons LLP snatched a top malpractice attorney and seven other lawyers to set up a sub...

A federal judge certified a new class of Kmart cashiers in an ongoing lawsuit against the big box retailer for failing to prov...

Steven L. Harmon has wasted no time instituting a series of aggressive - and sometimes controversial - changes aimed at revamp...

State lawmakers late Monday cut the amount of extra money they planned to grant California courts to $63 million as a result o...

A special State Bar panel unanimously approved a set of proposals Tuesday to require that would-be lawyers take 15 units of la...

Among the numerous legal issues faced by a purchaser acquiring a new company with a brand name is a key question: How to retai...

The court limited the protections from liability for ERISA pension plan fiduciaries afforded by the "presumption of prudence" ...

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The nation's largest health insurer is endangering the lives and violating the civil rights and privacy of its HIV and AIDS p...

Law firm leaders said they have less confidence this year compared to past years that their firms can adapt to the changing le...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit on Tuesday vacated a lower court ruling in a copyright ownership dispute involvi...

A group of plaintiff's attorneys who have filed dozens of food labeling cases in the Northern District of California hit a bum...

The Department of Justice announced some long-anticipated guidelines on attorney compensation in large bankruptcy cases Tuesday.

Arbitrators can continue deciding on a case-by-case basis whether plaintiffs can assert class claims in arbitration, the U.S. ...

Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert A. Glusman was elected the 82nd president of the association Tuesday.

The state Supreme Court Monday endorsed the expansive application of a unique settlement offer that raises the stakes for civi...

Justice Stephen J. Kane is known as a 'deep thinker' who has a practical streak.