Monday is the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta in 1215. And August 24 will be the 800th anniversary of the ...

For the third time in as many years, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has removed U.S. District Judge Otis D. Wright II o...

The California Department of Insurance announced Friday the appointment of John F. Finston as incoming general counsel. Finsto...

Ariosa Diagnostics Inc. and Natera Inc. won a decision Friday to invalidate a prenatal testing patent held by Sequenom Inc. af...

Lack of affordable interpreters can turn a courthouse into a Tower of Babel where justice is jeopardized for litigants with we...

Whatever recent privacy victories Americans have enjoyed, the overall message of late seems to be that, while we might be able...

Gov. Jerry Brown's pick of a young former Obama White House lawyer, Lamar W. Baker, to join the state appellate bench faces ru...

Wright Medical Technology Inc. was found liable Friday for a manufacturing defect that caused its device to crack after three ...

Judge Bruce Marrs aims to ensure nothing falls through the cracks in his Pomona courtroom.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

As the FCC moves to regulate prison phone systems, inmate communication service providers have found a lucrative new arena: vi...

The headline for the June 11 article about unionizing at the Legal Aid Society-Employment Law Center misrepresents the subject...

Too often, law firms seeking to recover attorney fees as damages simply assume the fees are justified, yet they're unable to e...

Former Santa Clara County complex court judge James Kleinberg calls it as he sees it. ...

An ex-Sullivan & Cromwell partner accuses her estranged husband, a former Irell & Manella partner, of concealing $20 m...

Computer methods that determine prices for products given their demand cannot be patented, the United States Court of Appeals ...

An Alameda County Superior Court judge has ordered supplemental briefing after issuing a tentative decision earlier this week ...

Founders of Sklar Kirsh LLP say the synergy between their two main practices - real estate and corporate transactions - is the...

California farm workers should enjoy safer work environments due to a host of bolstered workplace protections announced Thursd...

Eileen Decker is one step closer to becoming the new U.S. attorney in the Central District. She was confirmed by the U.S. Sena...

James Bascue, a former Los Angeles County presiding judge, was arrested Thursday and booked on a charge of firing at police of...

The House Judiciary Committee advanced its version of patent reform litigation to the House of Representatives on Thursday as ...

Delaware's House of Representatives unanimously passed a bill Thursday crafted by the state bar's council on corporate law tha...

The Center for Environmental Health is preparing a novel lawsuit against a company for allegedly violating the state's consume...

U.S. District Judge George H. Wu on Thursday blessed Hyundai and Kia's move to pump up the claims rate by considering drivers ...

Of seven lawyers disbarred recently, all had been disciplined before, and five were disbarred for disobeying probation terms i...

Increasingly, legal nonprofits representing workers are facing a new challenge: responding to the employment rights of their s...

New technology and shifting consumer habits require we rethink how performance rights are licensed. By Michael R. Morris ...

Employers can no longer skirt California's generous employee rights laws with forum selection clauses that force employees to ...

Associate General Manager and Chief Legal Executive Salt River Project Phoenix ...