Oceanside attorney Dean G. Chandler has been indicted on fraud and money laundering charges related to an alleged $11 million ...

A prominent Beverly Hills-based plaintiffs' law firm says it has found an innovative way to lower the standard of proof in jet...

Venture-backed companies seeking to exit through a public offering or an acquisition may be discouraged by the latest numbers ...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal Tuesday rejected a trial court’s attempt to send a probation violator to state prison. ...

In a small but expected win for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., a San Jose federal judge has followed through on her promise to ...

Two new faculty members and a new lecturer will begin teaching at Stanford Law School this fall. ...

Nossaman LLP has selected an attorney to co-chair its newly formed practice group that will consolidate the firm's intellectua...

Gov. Jerry Brown's vetoes show the governor is leery of piling new regulations on businesses and a desire to avoid creating ex...

Veterans who participated in secret military experiments in the 1950s, '60s and '70s to identify the effects of toxic biologic...

Judge Rand S. Rubin turns to music to keep the sometimes-grim cases on his calendar at bay.

Mediation sessions typically begin with what Russell A. Bostrom calls the "offended/insulted" stage. But attorneys say that in...

Bay Area lawyers have developed an expertise in patent-only transactions that have become big-money deals. ...

Proposition 36 is a modest reform of the Three Strikes Law originally passed by the voters in 1994. It protects a very valuabl...

According to Dante, both people and animals can be violent, but only humans can twist their reason towards evil by willfully c...

Your practice can reach enhanced levels of efficiency with help from an experienced attorney-coach. This is the message of "Th...

Two recent tax cases demonstrate the circumstances in which a "reliance" defense arises. By Bruce Givner and Owen Kaye of Givn...

San Diego-based startup EndoPodium Inc. is the first company to join Procopio, Cory, Hargreaves & Savitch LLP's business i...

Three elite plaintiffs' law firms might not have properly accounted for a reported nine-figure settlement they secured from St...

A federal judge denied a motion to dismiss Thursday in a gender discrimination lawsuit against Bank of America Corp., Merrill ...

Attorneys for three defendants in an online prescription drug case argued Monday that when their business was operating in 200...

U.S. District Judge Ronald S.W. Lew will return to his Los Angeles courtroom this week after recovering from a head injury suf...

Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed legislation over the weekend that would have allowed the courts to find a child has more than two lega...

Law firms across the country are continuing to make acquisitions, but are doing so with more caution in 2012, according to a s...

A federal judge in San Diego has denied a class-action settlement involving online deals giant Groupon Inc. over concerns the ...

While Gov. Jerry Brown signed seven employment-related bills into law by the end of this legislative session, he vetoed a cont...

A few tips on getting cash for your growing start-up. By Joel Fishman of Gladstone Michel Weisberg & Sloane ALC ...

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

The announcement that federal prosecutors are finally targeting medical marijuana dispensaries in Los Angeles - regarded by ma...

General Counsel for Orange County Department of Education Costa Mesa ...

A similar procedure was available to third parties prior to passage of the AIA, though it was rarely used due to a lack of ano...