Litigation
Oracle will pay $35 million to resolve wage-and-hour litigation
By Amy Yarbroughn
Technology giant Oracle Corp. has agreed to pay $35 million to settle class action litigation alleging that it failed to pay o...
Gonzalo P. Curiel, who battled drug cartels as a federal prosecutor and now sits on the San Diego County court, has been nomin...
Court administrators this week sent "urgent" requests to judges and lawyers around the state asking them to provide specific e...
California Supreme Court
Redevelopment agencies garner little sympathy
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court on Thursday didn't show much sympathy for redevelopment agencies fighting the Legislature's effort to...
A month into realignment's rollout, Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation Secretary Matthew Cate talks about how it's g...
Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary for XOMA Ltd. Berkeley ...
Whether you like him or not, this jurist lives by his own terms. By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...
With an uncertain M&A environment and rising competition for buyers, sellers cannot afford to make mistakes. By James C. C...
Kaye Scholer LLP has nabbed corporate lawyer Charles J. Kao from the San Francisco office of Sedgwick LLP. ...
At 9 a.m. today, the state's highest court will hear opening arguments in a closely watched case to determine the future of Ca...
A global logistics firm with annual revenues of $8.4 billion is being investigated by the National Labor Relations Board after...
A civil grand jury took the unusual step of aggressively refuting allegations of members of the San Bernardino International A...
Intellectual Property
Durie Tangri successfully defends patent win at Federal Circuit
By Craig Anderson
Mark A. Lemley successfully defended a Central District of California judge's ruling in favor of West Interactive Corp. ...
Controversial San Bernardino City Attorney James F. "Jim" Penman held onto his seat after a highly charged election Tuesday, b...
Six partners are decamping the Los Angeles office of Washington D.C.-based Hogan Lovells US LLP and taking their commercial en...
Westcore Properties, a San Diego-based commercial real estate investment firm, announced the appointment of Romy Selati Loseke...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court seems unlikely to uphold downer livestock law
By Robert Iafolla
A California law that criminalizes making food out of livestock that's too sick or tired to walk appeared unlikely to survive ...
San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a pension reform measure in Tuesday's municipal election, ushering in a series of r...
A bicyclist is suing former San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, accusing him of hitting him with his car, then l...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit gives OK to Argentines' suit against Daimler
By John Roemer
For the second time in two weeks, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that foreign plaintiffs have standing to sue...
Los Angeles County Counsel Andrea S. Ordin will resign next year, the Board of Supervisors announced Tuesday. She is the first...
San Francisco County Superior Court will end its involvement in Probation Alternatives Court, one in a string of programs to f...
A California attorney will steer the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. ...
A San Francisco federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a consolidated shareholder lawsuit against Oracle Corp. ...