In a reversal that could bolster other cases, a state court of appeal has revived a hotly watched class action against Kaiser ...

The trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8 drew to a close Wednesday, and, to mark the occasion, Chief Judge Vaughn...

Silicon Valley law firm Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati sent a memo to its non-partner lawyers Monday announcing 2009 yea...

Robert Page, Grace Brown and Jessica Vapnek of DPK Consulting work towards reconstructing Haiti’s justice sector after the dev...

Eli Noam of Columbia University explores the debate behind use of antitrust in media markets.

A quirky trademark fight between two companies, both calling themselves Sand Hill Advisors, has ended with a victory by, uh, S...

With the government threatening to raise income taxes, Dana Hollinger of the Dana Goldinger Group says take every opportunity ...

The California Supreme Court seemed sympathetic Wednesday to Wal-Mart and other developers whose projects are delayed by late-...

Citing personal problems, Ventura County Superior Court Judge William Brennan Lynch resigned from the bench Friday, just 24 da...

Sidley Austin has been on a Northern California hiring spree as of late, netting the prominent intellectual property litigator...

The long-running feud between attorney Cyrus Sanai and judges on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has led to an official ...

Gareth Evans and Farrah Pepper of Gibson Dunn examine a new federal opinion that redefines document preservation and collectio...

An environmental group launched a major assault against state forestry officials as well as the state's largest timber company...

Lei Lei Wang Ekvall, who helped start a clinic in Orange County to help poor people filing bankruptcy without a lawyer, became...

Online dating site eHarmony must make its Web site more welcoming to gays and lesbians under a proposed settlement filed in Lo...

Many companies have cut funding for the continuing education of their in-house attorneys. Now, enterprising law firms are seek...

Here are the five top arbitration awards.

Here are the 10 verdicts with the greatest impact.

Here are the 10 largest verdicts by dollar amount.

Read our list of Top Plaintiff Verdicts for 2009, broken down by largest dollar amount, highest impact and largest arbitration...

Google Inc., represented by a team of Bay Area-based lawyers from Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges, won a defense ve...

Hewlett-Packard Co. and several other Silicon Valley corporations will get to fight out a patent dispute in Delaware after a T...

The Upper Deck Co. reached a settlement Tuesday with Japan-based Konami Digital Entertainment Inc., where the Carlsbad-headqua...

The American Bar Association and a coalition of more than 70 civil rights and other legal organizations urged a Senate panel t...

The federal Envirionmental Protection Agency's new West Coast chief vowed Wednesday to make it a top priority to help poor and...

A bitter struggle over journalistic standards and union organizing at the Santa Barbara News-Press tilted toward the publisher...

Three months after he vetoed the State Bar's dues bill, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed legislation this week that will allo...

Robert Wood of Wood & Porter discusses methods by which tax can be deferred or eliminated when contemplating sale of prope...

Attorneys say the lack of blockbuster awards last year was probably more of an anomaly than a sign that we've seen the last of...

Marjorie Cohn of Thomas Jefferson School of Law says conservative judges are using procedural excuses to deal with the issue o...