Santa Barbara's 1 percent surcharge on residents' electricity bills is an "illegal tax masquerading as a franchise fee", a 2nd...

In 2012, the state Supreme Court rejected and remanded two dozen plea bargains worked out between State Bar prosecutors and la...

Assemblyman Mike Gatto, D-Los Angeles, and Sen. Ted Gaines, R-Roseville, announced a spate of privacy legislation Wednesday mo...

Litigators often believe they are prepared for any contingency, yet are baffled when an adverse party succumbs to a most predi...

Some considerations for employers thinking about requiring their employees to be vaccinated. By Daniel H. Handman ...

Associate General Counsel of Enphase Energy Inc. Petaluma ...

During the second day of testimony in a landmark gender discrimination trial, attorneys fought to establish whether former ven...

Continuing to grow its California presence, Troutman Sanders LLP is opening a San Francisco office on April 1. Establishing ro...

Numerous eye popping charges against the company are still alive in the Central District, but plaintiffs have been told to mak...

Apple Inc. was found liable Tuesday for infringing three Smartflash LLC patents in the California company's iTunes software. T...

The American Bar Association weighed into the Heller Ehrman bankruptcy case at the Ninth Circuit Tuesday, filing an amicus bri...

Judges, attorneys celebrate Federal Pro Bono Project ...

Thankfully, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in a 5-4 decision that a "fish" did not fit the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and its ...

In an unusual move, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has reopened a case that addresses whether website operators have a ...

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

Was Ellen Pao discriminated against as a woman while she worked at venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, ...

The practice of issuing unpublished, supposedly nonprecedential, opinions is simply harmful to appellate justice. By David R. ...

Former U.S. District Court Judge Layn R. Phillips -- one of the top mediators in the country -- left Irell & Manella LLP a...

President Barack Obama announced an upgrade to immigration rules Tuesday that will make it easier for spouses of high-skilled ...

A group of trial court judges recently pointed out that more than half of February meetings were closed, calling it proof that...

A coalition of ethnic bar groups and a national immigration judges association are supporting a lawsuit challenging a Justice ...

Congress wants wireless infrastructure without political backlash. And it recently found a way to have its wireless cake and e...

The first lawsuit sparked by the superbug bacterial outbreak that killed two patients, sickened five more and exposed almost 1...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund has persuaded a federal judge in Los Angeles to ship back to state cou...

Despite her recent appointment, Judge Dorothy Kim has the disposition of a seasoned bench officer.

Companies are becoming major players in California's renewable energy market, with several long-term deals to buy wind and sol...

Vice President and General Counsel for Bonhams & Butterfields Auctioneers Corporation - San Francisco ...

The president recently announced a "Precision Medicine Initiative" to accelerate the discovery of strategies for preventive me...

The IEEE began considering changes because of calls from competition regulators for standard-setting organizations to provide ...

Forced firearms forfeitures are just one example of a much larger national problem of abusive property seizures and compelled ...