A federal judge approved a $9.5 million settlement between social networking site Facebook Inc. and class action plaintiffs We...
24 Hour Fitness has reached a settlement with plaintiffs who filed a class action alleging the chain of gyms continued to cha...
A Sacramento attorney has been arraigned on tax evasion charges, the U.S. attorney's office announced Wednesday. ...
Video game publisher Activision has filed an anti-SLAPP motion seeking to dismiss a lawsuit the rock band No Doubt filed again...
The criminal trial of KB Home's former top executive for stock options backdating picked up tempo Wednesday, as a government w...
The prospects aren't looking good for a controversial law professor who sued the State Bar in San Francisco County Superior Co...
A lawsuit seeking to overturn the highly controversial U.S. policy excluding gays from openly serving in the military picked u...
Helen Sklar of Stone & Grzegorek discusses the problems in our immigration court system and how to deal with inappropriate...
If global warming lawsuits gain traction in the courts, many expect they will be met with a wave of coverage litigation, write...
Maggie Jessup of Platform Strategy explains the benefits of a book deal and how attorneys can use their experience to join thi...
Practitioner Dana Cephas says both plaintiffs and defendants should applaud, not criticize, the recent decision on attorney wo...
With the filing window to open April 1, C. Matthew Schulz, Paul Virtue and David Serwer of Baker & McKenzie advise employe...
The legal battle between a union representing Los Angeles County's prosecutors and District Attorney Steve Cooley appears to b...
Negative reviews on the popular business-review Web site Yelp.com have given way to class action lawsuits, the most recent in ...
A case the U.S. Supreme Court has taken up could end up influencing the political debate over a possible vacancy on the court....
Intellectual Property
IP Law Star Loses Second Microsoft Patent Case
By Craig Anderson
Patent litigation star Matthew Powers is on a losing streak for major client Microsoft Corp. A jury in Tyler, Texas awarded Vi...
A man who fell under a bus will receive $7.25 million from the Orange County Transportation Authority in a settlement reached ...
Trusts and estates lawyer Ellen Kahn leads Sideman & Bancroft as one of the largest female-owned law firms in the nation. ...
The father of Mitrice Richardson, a 24-year-old woman who went missing after she was released from the Malibu sheriff's statio...
A San Francisco federal judge denied a request by environmentalists and organic farming interests Tuesday to immediately halt ...
In an effort to improve access to court information, the U.S. Judicial Conference voted Tuesday to make digital audio recordin...
Legal consultant Ida Abbott launched a California-based roundtable earlier this year for female law firm leaders."They didn't ...
While more and more minorities are elevated to the bench, they join a roster that is still predominantly white. ...
Recent studies and anecdotal evidence suggest many firms have cut back on diversity-focused recruiting, special events and inv...
Bankruptcy cases in the Central District of California skyrocketed 71 percent in fiscal 2009, trumping the 34.5 percent surge ...
A 67-year-old probate lawyer who allegedly embezzled hundreds of thousands of dollars from clients over the past decade faces ...
McGuireWoods is appealing U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real's recent decision barring it from collecting $12 million in attor...
The King of Pop will reign over the charts for years despite his untimely death last June. At least, that's the expectation be...
A federal judge on Tuesday seemed inclined to let stand a magistrate judge's order that groups who opposed Proposition 8 turn ...