Fishing and environmental groups will be in court today hoping to force greater cleanup of water pollution related to farming ...
Trust and estate lawyers say the potential profits from new tours featuring holograms of late, great artists are "enormous." B...
San Francisco pharmaceutical giant McKesson Corp. agreed to pay $190 million to settle federal allegations it defrauded Medic...
Like many appellate lawyers, Elliot L. Bien is a bit of a loner, working from a home office, using a for-hire law library and ...
A former Upland mayor pleaded guilty to bribery charges on Thursday, admitting he accepted $5,000 in exchange for helping a bu...
Intellectual Property
Sun CEOs clash with lawyers, each other at Java trial
By Craig Andersonn
Two former chief executives of Sun Microsystems Inc. contradicted each other Thursday in back-to-back testimony over whether k...
Law Practice
Lieff Cabraser antitrust chair departs to start his own practice
By Saul Sugarman
Joseph R. Saveri , who joined Lieff Cabraser in 1992 to start the firm's antitrust group, gave notice last week. ...
The Manhattan district attorney is investigating the former chairman of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP. ...
WRM America financed a one-day conference in San Francisco on Tuesday to help address incidents involving sexual harassment, s...
The California Association of Black Lawyers hosted its 35th Annual Conference and National Bar Association Region IX Annual Me...
The Daily Journal held its annual reception for leading intellectual property lawyers in California on April 18 at the Rose Wo...
The CEO of the Miami-based firm traveled to Dewey's West Coast offices Wednesday. Sources said key partners were offered indem...
Automattic Inc., the San Francisco-based tech startup behind the popular blogging and web-publishing platform, said it was res...
Litigation
$74.5 million jury award is one of the largest of its kind
By Ciaran Mc Evoy
The San Luis Obispo jury award to a couple whose daughter's birth was mishandled, resulting in her developing cerebral palsy, ...
He will be replaced on an interim basis by Barry Currier of Los Angeles. ...
The court funding crisis will turn the clock back, and all of the old inefficiencies of litigation, and the associated costs, ...
Labor/Employment
EEOC tells companies to reconsider not hiring certain workers
By Brian Sumersn
In a sign it may be increasingly vigilant in policing anti-discrimination laws, the federal agency urged employers Wednesday t...
Alternative Dispute Resolution
A new approach to pre-mediation discovery
By Michael Leen
Games played by parties and counsel are often the cause of prolonged discovery, and, ultimately, sanctions. By Malcolm Sher ...
President Barack Obama on Wednesday nominated U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco to serve on the U.S. Sent...
In response to SEC inquiries into a handful of Hollywood studios' dealings in China, lawyers advise an internal review of FCPA...
Intellectual Property
Oracle attorney spars with Google witness over blog post
By Craig Andersonn
In Oracle Corp.'s trial against Google Inc. for infringing copyrights to the Java programming language, defense attorneys hav...
Judges and Judiciary
Longtime public defender nominated for LA district court
By Gabe Friedmann
The Obama administration has nominated its first Latino candidate for a spot on the Central District's federal bench following...
Niels B. Schaumann, law professor and vice dean for faculty at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minn., will take o...
Jurupa Valley is joining the ranks of a growing batch of cities across California battling to harness big box developments ami...
The U.S. Supreme Court denied the Internal Revenue Service's bid for more time to go after money that's held in a certain type...
The decision by Mammoth Lakes' judgment-creditor to reject a facilitated negotiation reveals a weakness in the AB 506 scheme. ...
No stranger to crisis intervention, Commissioner Diana Summerhayes hustles through bench trials.