Re: "Proposed rules encourage 'sky's the limit' fee gouging," June 17. By Stanley W. Lamport and Robert L. Kehr ...

A proposed Russian law, for example, would even ban single heterosexuals from adopting if from a nation where same-sex marriag...

A central problem posed by consumer privacy litigation is how to place a dollar value on privacy violations. By Brian S. Kabat...

A court's recent validation of the "quantification settlement agreement" will hopefully ensure the reliability of Southern Cal...

Real estate transactions attorney Allan E. Low jumped from Nixon Peabody LLP, where he was a partner, to Perkins Coie LLP as a...

A long-standing patent infringement lawsuit originally filed by Rancho Palos Verdes-based Ultramercial LLC may ultimately prov...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP is representing 3-D printer manufacturer MakerBot Industries LLC in the company's upcoming sale to S...

After weeks of speculation, the White House has confirmed that Twitter Inc. executive Nicole A. Wong will join the Obama admin...

A new report details how cuts have impacted San Diego courts. Published at a time when lawyers are looking to lawmakers for mo...

The state Judicial Council will consider a proposal to require parties in civil cases file and serve documents electronically....

State leaders' efforts to overhaul California's controversial hazardous chemical exposure warning law, Proposition 65, is chug...

Two Los Angeles plaintiffs have come forward to challenge Warner/Chappell Music Inc.'s ownership of the song "Happy Birthday t...

Even as government agencies and Congress scramble to take the lead in the fight against so-called patent holding companies, In...

Many attorneys and litigants have experienced frustrations, including settling on unfavorable terms, as superior courts pare b...

In recent years, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States has played an increasingly prominent role assessing ...

Commissioner Robert J. Totten is tough on kids in drug court, but he can also be a softie.

A federal jury Friday gave a former software developer the go-ahead to pursue claims that he deserves royalties from Electron...

Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson PC hired JoAnna Brooks as a shareholder in the firm's San Francisco office from Ja...

Lawyers say commissioner knows when to let parties vent and when to move cases quickly.

Justice Arthur Gilbert is passionate about writing and music.

From a defendant's standpoint, there is no advantage to settling a case for true value when there is no date out there when a ...

Last week's unanimous decision in Oxford Health demonstrates the difficulty of getting judicial review of an arbitrator...

On Jan. 2, President Barack Obama signed the FY 2013 National Defense Appropriations Act, which contains new whistle-blower pr...

Currently in the spotlight over the extent of access the U.S. National Security Agency has to its data, Menlo Park-based Faceb...

Attorneys showed up in force to see equal pay advocate Lilly Ledbetter and several honorees speak at Equal Rights Advocates' 3...

DLA Piper's rock band Def Piper took home first place for charity fundraising at the 1st Annual Law Rocks event last week at S...

Promising the film industry's help on consumer and progressive issues, movie producer Chris Moore accepted a new award from th...

A state prison inmate serving 25 years to life argued his own cause and persuaded a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel to...

Home to 11 attorneys - six of them partners - BraunHagey & Borden LLP takes on both plaintiffs and defense-side matters in...

Los Angeles must arbitrate with a public employee union over the furloughs it introduced as a budget-cutting measure in 2009, ...