Intellectual Property
Central District Struggles In Its Role as Top Patent Venue
By David Houstonn
At the opening of a self-help legal clinic last year, U.S. District Judge A. Howard Matz of Los Angeles told pro se litigants ...
The Obama administration is in the midst of creating the first ever government-wide plan for how a host of agencies work toget...
San Diego attorney Margaret M. Mann has been sworn in as a judge of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District by Chi...
Federal prosecutors trying to avoid the fallout from a growing crime lab scandal agreed Tuesday to postpone the sentencing of ...
Sacramento Superior Court judges on Tuesday announced plans to spend $1.45 million during the next five years to take greater ...
A San Diego magistrate judge has reversed a sanctions order against six attorneys who represented Qualcomm Inc. and fell under...
Los Gatos attorney Pierce Gore, facing a lawsuit over a newspaper advertisement seeking potential class-action plaintiffs, may...
Spurred by stories of sick and injured policyholders whose disability claims are improperly denied and then tied up in court, ...
Testimony in the prosecution of ex-KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz on stock option backdating charges ended Tuesday, with prosecutors...
An appellate court Tuesday rejected a the petition of a quadriplegic, who might be the state's "most-expensive" prisoner, for ...
Brian Kabateck and Evan Zucker of Kabateck Brown Kellner ask what Shady Grove Orthopedic Associates v. Allstate Insurance
The scandal involving sexual crimes continues, but the Catholic Church can't quite nail down the concept of repentance, writes...
Bryan Liang of California Western School of Law and Tim Mackey of the Institute of Health Law Studies discuss conflicts of int...
D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenza says when revenge comes in the form of a SLAPP lawsuit, payback is best served in accordanc...
Law firms found no silver bullet for achieving financial stability last year and layoffs turned out to be one of the few signi...
Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee seized Tuesday on UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu's failure to f...
In her new book, Areva Martin provides parents and caregivers with vital and relevant instructions on how to stand up for chil...
Read our annual list of the leading intellectual property lawyers in California. Plus, we explore how the Central District is ...
Jenna Hamerling, left, Melissa Tyner and David Ackerly launched the Inner City Law Center's legal clinic focusing on the legal...
Teresa Estrada-Mullaney, who trained as a dancer as a child, is known for her professionalism and grace.
A San Diego magistrate judge has reversed a sanctions order against six attorneys who represented Qualcomm Corp. and fell unde...
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Elizabeth A. Grimes was confirmed Monday as associate justice to the Second District's Court ...
A legal malpractice claim against Los Angeles attorney Ernest Price and the firm of Ropers Majesky Kohn & Bentley was thro...
Over the objections of the company's former general counsel, a San Jose judge has approved a settlement in which former Atmel ...
Lawyers from Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker and Cooley Godward Kronish worked on Accelrys Inc.'s acquisition of Santa C...
A Court of Appeal in Los Angeles revived a lawsuit Monday against prominent plaintiffs attorney Tom Girardi. ...
The Los Angeles district attorney's union signaled it plans to seek class certification of a lawsuit filed last year accusing ...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Hyundai Wins Case Against Insurers
By John Roemer
Two insurance companies wrongly refused to defend Hyundai Motor America on a patent infringement claim related to a feature on...
Sparring continues over the state's new court case management system, with backers and critics planning dueling demonstrations...