Attorneys, judges and others are helping to start clinics in the Northern District of California to advise the growing numbers...

Countless rulings have found that schools have heightened duty to take all reasonable steps to protect students from harm, wri...

You might think that after 23 years, we would be done listing the chemicals "known" to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity -...

Mike Willemsen reviews the documentary "Witch Hunt," which explores prosecutors run amok and small town hysteria. ...

In baseball and mediation, the opposing forces, competing obligations and weapons of combat all converge at home plate, writes...

Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Wednesday that College Hospital in Costa Mesa had agreed to a settlement, an i...

Figuring out what the voters intended when passing ballot measures isn't always easy, especially when those voters are weighin...

Santiago "Sam" Fernandez joined the Los Angeles Dodgers as their general counsel in 1984 after a year spent "on loan" with the...

Mircea Achiriloaie, an attorney with the Thousand Oaks-based plant biotech company Ceres Inc., warns that proposed reforms to ...

Our annual roundup of the best intellectual property litigators based in California. ...

Staff writer Pat Broderick tracks down an intrepid law school professor who is chasing IP pirates all over the globe. ...

Yahoo's chief IP counsel, Jeanine Hayes, says courts are in desperate need of new guidelines on how to handle litigation over ...

The Daily Journal's 2009 roundup of the top IP litigators and top IP portfolio managers in California. Plus, we take a look at...

The San Bernardino County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday voted against cutting benefits for judges, but approved efforts to s...

Congress is considering multiple bills directed at streamlining the pathway for generic biologic drugs, write Knobbe Martens a...

Nora Quinn took on a trial and chemo at the same time - and ended up fighting a third battle against the insurance company tha...

A federal judge dismissed all insider trading allegations against former Countrywide Financial Corp. executives except for for...

After In re Ferguson, thinking outside the box can only be patented when it fits squarely in the decision's tight parameters, ...

Upholding a $1 billion dollar class action against Bank of America could do more harm than good, several California Supreme Co...

Class actions have become the bane of existence for employer attorneys. But in a pending California Supreme Court case, employ...

For nearly 30 years, Brandon Johnson's family has operated the Water Wheel Resort, a modest retreat by the Colorado River on l...

Our annual roundup of the best IP portfolio managers in California. ...

Tech companies are strategizing how to get stimulus funding while diligently protecting key intellectual property assets of th...

Norm Coleman does have a few legal options left in the Minnesota Senate race - whether they're likely to work is another story...

One of two bankruptcy judges tapped to deal with the Inland Empire's crushing caseload, Peter H. Carroll credits a chance semi...

Deep in the heart of Texas a group of federal judges built the nation's busiest - and most unlikely - patent court. Now forces...

Before he went in-house with the Giants, Jack Bair was a deputy city attorney in San Francisco and led the effort to prevent t...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear a case about the discretion federal judges have to award plaintiffs in civil righ...

Though the proposed 90 percent tax on AIG bonuses raises constitutional issues, courts aren't likely to block the plan, writes...

TroyGould attorney Jonathan Handel dissects the recent deal struck between ad agencies and the actors unions. ...