Ex-athlete Judge Richard Kirschner now dashes between trial and half a dozen judicial committees.
PubMatic Inc., the digital media platform company for publishers, added Nadine Stocklin as its first general counsel. Stocklin...
Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...
Judge Gary Friedman can be tough on defendants but promotes peace in negotiations.
Entertainment & Sports
Activision settles "Call of Duty" case on eve of trial
By Jean Yung
Creators of the blockbuster "Call of Duty" war-simulation video game series and its publisher Activision Blizzard Inc. settled...
Perspective
Record labels brace for impact of 1976 Copyright Act termination rights
By Michael Leen
Individual artists who created works after 1977 will soon be able to reclaim their works, and whittle away at record label rev...
Many people don't realize that California law is sufficient to protect basic assets brought into marriage. By Veronika Melamed...
When State Controller John Chiang issued notice of a formal disciplinary action against the accounting firm Mayer Hoffman McC...
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed an unusual case that sought to force the government to make dramatic cuts in greenhouse ...
A state appellate court in Sacramento ruled Thursday that a juror in a criminal trial may be compelled to reveal his Facebook ...
PubMatic Inc., a Silicon Valley-headquartered digital media advertising company for publishers, announced on Wednesday the add...
Law Practice
Lieff Cabraser makes changes as it looks to capture a new kind of work
By Kevin Lee
Lieff Cabraser wants to represent more individual corporations and government entities, and take on more direct action cases. ...
What happens when someone takes your virtual goods? By Jeff Pietsch of Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Tobin & Tobin ...
After two and a half years and three lawsuits, Westinghouse Solar and Zep Solar have settled a cantankerous patent dispute,...
The insurance industry and its attorneys are closely watching a bill that would increase what plaintiffs can recover from pers...
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to issue new rules to curb soot pollution by ...
U.S. Supreme Court
Defendant seeks review of plaintiff-friendly dismissal decision
By Robert Iafolla
A West Hollywood startup fighting a securities fraud lawsuit has turned to the U.S. Supreme Court, asking for review of an app...
Ted M. Handel, a former partner at Koletsky Mancini Feldman & Morrow, adds heft to Haight Brown's mostly litigation practi...
After receiving her degree from California Western School of Law in 1999, Elizabeth M. Brown joined the Peace Corps and spent...
A federal class action lawsuit filed Thursday alleges that California prisons follow solitary confinement policies that violat...
Lowe worked for 16 years as a lawyer for insurance companies and 15 years battling them. Now, he's merged two careers into yet...
California Supreme Court
Justices consider de facto life sentences for juveniles
By John Roemer
Sentencing of juvenile offenders got the state Supreme Court's attention on Thursday as the justices heard oral argument in th...
Intellectual Property
Judge hands Google yet another win in case against Oracle
By Craig Andersonn
In a smashing victory for Google Inc. ,a federal judge ruled Thursday that Oracle Corp. -owned elements of the Java programmin...
Learn some tips for effective, legal surveillance, and how to know when you're being surveilled. By Thomas Martin of Martin In...
The prosecutor's suit claims the district attorney's office made "politically motivated" charges that he raped and sodomized a...
Oral arguments in the appeal of actor Don Johnson's $51 million award against the producers of the television show "Nash Bridg...
U.S. Supreme Court
Flood v. Kuhn Part 2: the 40th anniversary of justice versus law
By Michael Leen
Curt Flood's Supreme Court case was the beginning of the end of the Big League's infamous "reserve clause." By Dan Lawton of L...
Sacramento law firm Downey Brand LLP has bolstered its ranks with the addition of three attorneys who represent some of Calif...
