In a victory for defense lawyers, a magistrate judge ordered federal prosecutors Wednesday to identify which documents - out o...

On the eve of her trial, the final defendant in a stock options backdating case against Mercury Interactive LLC executives - f...

The roughly $350 million estate that Herbalife founder Mark R. Hughes left his young son Alex has spawned some nasty legal fig...

Competing guidelines have emerged at the state and federal levels as regulatory and enforcement bodies attempt to address cons...

On Feb. 12, President Barack Obama issued two important documents to secure our digital infrastructure: the Executive Order Im...

California joined Maryland, New Jersey, Delaware, Michigan and Illinois by enacting a bill which creates guidelines and restri...

While data is pouring into organizational networks, nearly one in four respondents to a recent survey indicated that the vast ...

Over the past 20 years, we have witnessed the development of encryption and myriad other security technologies. By Rodney R. P...

Recent reports underscore a growing pattern of patient data breaches, and lawyers across California say they're seeing a corre...

Tuesday's Judicial Council meeting reflected the ongoing struggle among court leaders to determine how the branch will govern ...

UCI School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has been appointed to hold the school's recently endowed chair in First Amendment law.

A federal appellate court has stepped into a war over whaling being waged in the distant Southern Ocean off Antarctica, callin...

Susan C. Alker will jump from Reed Smith LLP to the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn LLP on Wednesday, according to ...

Newly expanded federal privacy regulations that restrict how kids younger than 13 can be tracked and marketed online will be e...

Discipline prosecutors want to abandon detailed complaints in favor of stripped-down "notice pleadings," but the defense bar i...

Angry Facebook users who sued over the site's now-defunct Beacon feature got a raw deal in a $9.5 million class action settlem...

Legislators, including the head of the California Senate, have introduced a flood of bills to reform the state's landmark envi...

With this ruling, the question is settled that remainder beneficiaries do have standing to seek redress of harm to their inter...

In this environment it is surprising that so few lawyers, whether operating as sole proprietors or in small to medium-size fir...

Veteran litigator Terry C. Leuin , a partner at Nossaman LLP , died on Feb. 18 after battling cancer. He was 66.

A federal judge issued sanctions ruled the L.A. Sheriff's Department failed to preserve certain videotapes of deputies removin...

The California Supreme Court has appointed Justice Ignazio J. Ruvolo, presiding justice of the Court of Appeal, 1st District C...

State officials "buried" a report by a consultant who was critical of the prison system's suicide prevention program, accordin...

If an attorney or witness in a case is "friends" with the judge on a social media website like Facebook, the judge should cons...

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

A 9th Circuit motions panel granted an emergency request to keep Marin County's Drakes Bay Oyster Co. open for business while ...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Silicon Valley project engineer convicted of stealing trade secrets from his former empl...

A ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gives the retirees' association a second chance to prove the benefits in questi...