Judge Lynn Poncin runs a formal courtroom, but her humanity affects lawyers and litigants.

Under a measure signed into law Monday by Gov. Jerry Brown, depositions in most cases will be limited to less than seven hours...

More voices are calling on Gov. Jerry Brown to sign a bill into law that would put strong limitations on local law enforcement...

If media reports are correct, Zynga Inc. may have reached an agreement with competitor Electronics Arts Inc. last year to limi...

The number of new students starting at ABA-accredited law schools in California has fallen roughly 8 percent each of the last ...

A shocking 66 percent of Fortune 500 companies now have Facebook accounts; 73 percent are active on Twitter. By David L. Marti...

California cannot afford to allow companies -- foreign or domestic -- to cheat the state out of money while reaping the benefi...

One especially frightening development involves grand jury subpoenas to produce your own offshore bank records. Most lawyers h...

A memorial session for the late Chief Judge Emeritus James R. Browning of the 9th Circuit is set for Friday in San Francisco a...

A 9th Circuit panel voted 2-1 late Monday to temporarily halt enforcement of Montana’s law making it a criminal offense for an...

Groups representing plaintiffs and defendents won some, lost some in final legislative session that was focused on pension ref...

All complex litigation civil documents in San Francisco County Superior Court must now be filed electronically, Court Executiv...

The U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of California announced Monday it reached a $6.4 million settlement with S...

On Monday, Division 3 of the 4th District Court of Appeal published a previously unpublished decision upholding a preliminary ...

Hogan Lovells US LLP has acquired five new intellectual property partners, including a four-partner team from the San Jose off...

Judge Steven A. Brick is known as a no-nonsense jurist who demands attorneys be prepared.

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

The number of class actions filed against food companies for allegedly misleading consumers has increased dramatically during ...

Chief Operating Officer and Corporate Secretary for Square Enix Inc. El Segundo ...

The video game makers are in the middle of a dispute over whether Zynga's virtual-world game "The Ville" is suspiciously simil...

The court held that a private public utility may be strictly liable in an inverse condemnation action for private property dam...

The Ford Foundation is providing Stanford University law students the opportunity to earn some money while doing public intere...

U.S. District Judge George H. King took over as chief judge of the Central District at the end of business day on Friday, the ...

A brief by an undocumented would-be lawyer disputes arguments by the U.S. Department of Justice that federal immigration law p...

Angered by San Diego federal prosecutors' handling of illegal alien witnesses at criminal trials, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of ...

A lawyer who allegedly tricked underwater homeowners out of thousands of dollars should be disbarred, a State Bar Court judge ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A federal judge in Los Angeles has ordered that a group of immigrants detained by the government for more than six months be g...

The University of California and Eolas Technologies Inc. filed patent lawsuits against Facebook Inc., Walt Disney Company and ...

In another blow to the power of Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s smartphone and tablet patents, an International Trade Commissio...