A federal appellate court Wednesday tossed a suit in which environmentalists claimed Pacific Gas & Electric Co. and Pacifi...

It came down to the last hour, but Steve Berman, of Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP changed his position Thursday afternoon an...

On the heels of several new application launches, Palo Alto-based online payment and invoicing startup WePay Inc. unveiled its...

In a rare reversal in a wrongful death case, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Wednesday denied immunity to a Calif...

The state Supreme Court appeared ready during oral argument Wednesday to scrap a ruling from just two years ago on the controv...

Director of Business and Legal Affairs at Hankey Investment Co. LP Los Angeles ...

Polsinelli Shughart PC entered into a 10-year lease for 26,000 square feet of office space on the 23rd floor of 2049 Century P...

They've accused scores of defendants of illegally downloading pornographic videos. But a federal judge, skeptical of the lawye...

There are two types of employers: those that know they have been hacked, and those that do not. By Paul Cowie and Dorna Moini ...

A recent case out of the 3rd District Court of Appeal shows how a stubborn refusal to follow the rules on appealability can do...

The latest hazard for class-action plaintiffs arrived in the U.S. high court's decision in Comcast Corp. v. Behrend, wh...

Though some courts and commentators argue that Prop. 65 spawns "absurdly easy" lawsuits, that view discounts the significant i...

The International Academy of Trial Lawyers will honor Thomas V. Girardi at the organization's 2013 annual meeting Saturday at ...

The fate of a decades-long lawsuit regarding California prison conditions hinges on a rigid federal law that some legal observ...

An auto repair business that avoided paying workers for hours worked when they didn't have cars to service didn't meet minimum...

DLA Piper picked up a former assistant U.S. attorney and international arbitration practice co-chair from Morrison & Foers...

Bay Area-based defense lawyers at Cooley LLP are gearing up for trial after losing their bid to get a trademark infringement c...

Following a successful IPO in March of last year, Berkeley-based natural and organic food company Annie's Inc. on Monday anno...

Immigration lawyers have seen an uptick in work for companies applying for H-1B visas in what is expected to be the busiest in...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has invalidated Apple Inc.'s claims on a critical mobile device patent, a development tha...

U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller followed a love of public policy to a career in the law.

A 2011 law that lets litigants leapfrog state trial courts to take certain environmental disputes straight to appellate court ...

So, here are my predictions on the outcomes of the court's DOMA and Prop. 8 decisions. By Philip A. Rafferty ...

It's not just that there are lots of bad interpreters out there; language interpretation is not a precise science, and even th...

A recent state Supreme Court case showcases numerous errors in judicial interpretation regarding egregious forensic errors tha...

A 2013 report found that the special master "did not establish meaningful criteria" for determining executive pay at its cover...

The court's decision could prevent workers from utilizing the accessible and affordable administrative forum, requiring them t...

Sheriff's authorities' investigation into sexual quid pro quo allegations against an Orange County Superior Court judge could ...

William H. Ginsburg, a Los Angeles lawyer who was involved in hundreds of pivotal cases and gained notoriety as Monica Lewinsk...

Capitol Records LLC wins court ruling; ReDigi can't legally resell music downloads. ...