Campus crime has increased dramatically in the past two decades - mostly in the areas of sexual assault and drug crimes. Here'...

A man who was released from prison due to an apparent error during resentencing - and then rearrested - will have to serve a s...

DFEH suit charges financier with considering women a greater risk to default on subprime loans based purely on gender. ...

Cooley LLP is advising Mountain View-based Pure Storage Inc. on a $300 million public offering filed with the Securities and E...

Copyright cases targeting users of file sharing services are back in vogue, according to legal analytics company Lex Machina. ...

A technical dispute over what constitutes filing one's taxes led the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Wednesday to reverse th...

Northern District U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag says she loves her job, and denies suggestions that future revelations concerning...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law this week which allows judges to rule only on the evidentiary objections he or she deems materia...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

After years of gradual decline, several sudden spikes in homicides, violent crimes and property crimes up and down the state h...

When calculating the level of funding of our courts as a percentage of the state's general fund, California trails the nationa...

Does the First Amendment protect the release of these videos even though they were obtained under false pretenses and without ...

Courts provide robust protection for the ability to post anonymously. However, when remarks turn into defamation, this protect...

Plaintiff Robert F. Lopez alleges the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had a duty to catch the sentenci...

California's commercial real estate market is bouncing back to levels not seen since 2001, according to a new survey from Alle...

Google Inc.'s attorneys, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year, argued in a memorandum filed Tuesday that a judge shoul...

Attorneys for four Arco gas station owners delivered closing arguments Tuesday to a packed courtroom here, seeking to convince...

Paramount Pictures is edging into new territory with an unprecedented revenue sharing deal with AMC Theaters but attorneys say...

The Alien Tort Statute provides an important tool for victims of the most horrific wrongs. However, U.S. courts have increasin...

Earlier this year, the Department of Defense made clear that the Obama administration believes the DOD has a role in defending...

Jennifer J. Banks Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. ...

King & Spalding LLP is opening a Sacramento office by poaching Stephen L. Goff and his team of healthcare attorneys from D...

Karen L. Stevenson's practice focused on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on securities litigation and defense o...

Warren E. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. brought in longtime legal advisers from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP to lead the ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified the scope of the International Trade Commission's review authority...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a brief supporting the plaintiff in a Northern District lawsuit that acc...

U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford on Monday appeared ready to rule out arbitration and keep in court what could be an exp...

In a complex fee fight involving a law firm's $15 million bill, the state Supreme Court on Monday reversed an appellate court ...

Santa Clara County Judge Joshua Weinstein strives to approach cases as an adjudicator, not a mediator.

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.