In a sign they lack the votes needed to pass foreclosure-reform legislation, Democratic leaders are planning an unusual proced...

In a victory for a long-planned effort to connect downtown Los Angeles and Santa Monica by rail, a state appellate court rejec...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP nabbed two intellectual property lawyers who specialize in Japan-based clients from the...

Recent years have seen a rush to shell out breathtaking sums of money for patent portfolios. By Suzanne S. Harrison of Percipi...

Biotech firms are holding their breath now that the Supreme Court has sent Myriad back down for consideration in light ...

Former state Supreme Court justice Cruz Reynoso was tapped to chair a UC Davis task force investigating an incident in which s...

A Superior Court judge shot down a Riverside County deputy public defender's closely watched bid to force the local sheriff's ...

New gTLDs can be generic names in any language or script. By Katy Basile of Novak Druce + Quiff LLP ...

Six years after they first materialized, the 9th Circuit granted D.C. Comics access to a package of documents that could revea...

The AIA provides seriously naunced changes to patent laws in the U.S. that require attention. By Peter Jon Gluck of Baker Host...

Will California employers have to display a poster later this month alerting workers to their rights under the National Labor ...

A bill that would expand and clarify the scope of California's medical marijuana law cleared its first legislative hurdle on T...

Leaders of the state's largest trial court on Tuesday announced plans for what they called "the most significant reduction of ...

The San Diego law firm Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has found itself in increasingly hot water with a federal judge w...

Oracle Corp. CEO Larry Ellison acknowledged on Tuesday that he explored the idea of building a smartphone and then tried to re...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave itself a second shot at clarifying whether copyrighted goods acquired legally overseas c...

A coalition of lawyers have joined forces to take on the music industry's major labels, launching class action lawsuits seekin...

Blind acceptance of the "woe as me" defense defies progress in the tax refund discussion. By Paul Heidenreich of Huskinson, Br...

Countrywide's mortgage fraud case pits unsophisticated consumers againts de facto Goliaths. By Tiffany Heah ...

A federal judge has dismissed an Americans with Disabilities Act lawsuit against UC Hastings College of the Law after the case...

Within minutes of opening statements in Oracle Corp.'s lawsuit against Google Inc. over alleged infringement of the Java progr...

In a victory for California workers, the U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to review a state appeals court decision holding t...

Plastic bag manufacturer Hilex Poly Co. LLC and other plaintiffs challenging Los Angeles County's ban on single-use plastic ba...

Santa Ana has hired an outside attorney to oversee the city's in-house legal department in what officials are calling a novel ...

Nationally renowned litigators David Boies and Theodore Olson headlined the latest lobbying effort at the state capitol on Mon...

Recent cases highlight the competing policy goals of our voluntary pension system. By Chuck Teixeira ...

A state appellate court has reversed a judgment in excess of $600 million against Boeing Co., which has been involved in a lon...

Even if the operating agreement eliminates fiduciary duties, a minimum standard of conduct still applies. By Kathryn Barrett o...