A new application that would integrate Facebook and Netflix to reveal users' movie preferences has an ambiguous legal hurdle t...

The state's largest trial court will endure a $38.1 million belt-tightening this fiscal year as part of $157.7 million in cuts...

A Virginia jury awarded $115 million in damages to San Jose-based ActiveVideo Networks Inc. on Tuesday in a case against Veriz...

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has asked a Santa Ana federal judge in Santa Ana to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the FBI u...

Again siding with public schools, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday rejected Christian student groups' effo...

With more Chinese investors moving in the past year to acquire upscale hotels and commercial complexes that have languished in...

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a San Diego-based pharmaceutical company, three related holding firms and four ...

President Barack Obama nominated Gregory Woods Tuesday to be the Energy Department’s new general counsel. ...

The electric-powered transportation industry in California is burgeoning, and as businesses grow and navigate the thicket of r...

How Casey Anthony's defense team overcame the odds and convinced the jury to acquit. By Louis J. Shapiro ...

The 9th Circuit on Tuesday voted to rethink an earlier decision over the sentence handed to the Millennium Bomber Ahmed Ressam...

Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps LLP helped San Diego-based Security Business Bancorp get an $8.9 million investment from...

A state appellate panel Tuesday reversed a San Luis Obispo County trial judge and held that a party can win legal fees for lit...

A U.S. Bankruptcy judge has approved the Los Osos Community Services District’s bankruptcy plan, bringing to an end nearly fiv...

A five-member majority, led by Justice Antonin Scalia, is raising concerns even among the most traditional proponents of arbit...

New legislation signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown Monday will require sports agents to give up any profits earned as a resul...

The Scott River is not a large or well-known river. Nonetheless, it is at the center of a legal fight over a fundamental quest...

Chief operating officer and general counsel for Tioga Pharmaceuticals Inc. in San Diego ...

The Association of Corporate Counsel's Value Index was intended to help in-house attorneys know more about which law firms wer...

Robert H. Schuller's Crystal Cathedral Ministries said it will try to raise $50 million in donations in 120 days to rescue its...

Attorneys are no longer required to lodge non-California authorities with their papers. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall...

Matthew D. Powers, the former Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP patent litigator who started his own firm last month, is adding a...

People with disabilities should not have to go to court in defense of their right to have fun. By Paula Pearlman of Disability...

With some diligence, tenacity, strategic thinking, persistence, and the power of positive relationships, no matter is too grea...

Prosecutors in public corruption cases must show that officials either knew or should have known their actions were wrong, the...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill Monday that requires prosecutors to use witness testimony or physical evidence to bolster the a...

Aim not only to master the case, but to present it in a stripped-down way that the judge and jury can easily understand. By Ri...

The former general counsel of Tesla Inc.is launching a web-based private judicial system that uses arbitrators to resolve disp...

Rejecting a defense raised by banks to fend off plaintiffs in auto repossession challenges, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeal...

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.