Senior vice president, general counsel, secretary for NetSuite Inc. San Mateo ...

Patents must contain sufficient elements to ensure that it is not a claim on natural law itself. By Jason G. Harp and George Y...

A former employee's allegations regarding the culture at Goldman Sachs raises questions of its liability for breach of fiducia...

Plea offers are not required, but if one is made, it becomes a critical stage of the proceedings that demands effective assist...

As one of the state's best-known securities firms, Robbins Geller Rudman & Dowd LLP has collected tens of billions of doll...

Choosy cable TV viewers who want to buy individual channels a la carte lost their argument that the industry's practice of mar...

Policymakers, lawyers and judges plan to converge in front of San Francisco's City Hall on April 18 to rally against budget cu...

A Palm Springs nudist resort's no-children policy has triggered an unusual court fight in which a group of anonymous dissenter...

Petaluma-based solar product manufacturer Enphase Energy Inc. began trading Friday, after slashing its anticipated per share...

The U.S. Supreme Court has an opportunity to further bolster the binding power of arbitration contracts if it agrees today to ...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is set to rake in the most legal fees paid by a California company in connection with an in...

Mary Beth Sipos is proving Thomas Wolfe wrong: you can go home again, and not because you've failed. ...

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

Sidley Austin LLP added Wendy M. Lazerson as partner in Palo Alto.

Judge John Wiley tackles complex cases with aplomb.

A national debate has emerged over how existing laws regulating the government's collection of electronic information should a...

There is an art to mediation, and learning the rules can make the process easier for all parties invovled. Robert A. Steinberg...

Caution: appealing less-than-final judgments creates high levels of risk and uncertainty. By Zareh A. Jaltorossian and Anne M....

The state Supreme Court may clarify whether third-party witness statements are attorney work product. By David C. Moore of Lin...

When music distributor INgrooves bought a division from Universal Music Group earlier this month, the company turned to an unu...

Former Northern District Bankruptcy Judge Randall J. Newsome believes in the value of mediation. ...

Environmentalists are taking aim at a key part of California's effort to combat climate change, claiming in a lawsuit that the...

The search is on to replace the dean of Stanford Law School, who announced late Wednesday he will step down this fall to becom...

Lawyers at Bayer, Wishman & Leoni have handled Chapter 13 cases their entire careers and back it up with a collection of r...

Prosecutors walk a fine line between locking up criminals and ensuring that defendants' rights are not violated. By Maurice P...

Tony Toranto, who was one of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP's biggest real estate, business and energy stars before t...

Making sure that your client's bargained-for forum selection clause is enforceable. By Paul Llewellyn of Lewis & Llewellyn...

A few Hollywood producers are asking talent to promote TV and movie projects through social media. Some lawyers call it "a win...

Shutting the door on some claims of child molestation against third-party defendants, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday t...

Campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee is expected to enter a plea today. But for several of Durkee's alleged victims, the plea deal ...