Because past damages may form a significant part of potential recovery in patent litigation, understanding when to limit the a...

While trade secrets cannot fully replace patent protection in all respects, they do offer, in many cases, an increasingly viab...

An important vector in analyzing the trajectory of recent events in Ferguson, Missouri, is whether federal law and federal cou...

A bank employee who became suicidal with a severe eating disorder was treated unfairly by the bank's health plan, a 9th U.S. C...

A California judge on Monday tossed claims of malpractice by former city of Bell officials against Best Best & Krieger LLP...

Supporters of Proposition 49 — a state measure recently removed from the November ballot by the Supreme Court — said several d...

Jason Chin, son of state Supreme Court Justice Ming Chin, is being vetted for a superior court judgeship in Alameda County. ...

With little legal regulation to look to, law enforcement agencies must develop their own procedures on how to use and store th...

A bill to crack down on nonconsensual sterilizations by California prisons and jails has made it to Gov. Jerry Brown's desk. ...

Google Inc. has won more than $123,000 in legal fees and costs after a patent holder, PersonalWeb Technologies LLC, was found ...

The 9th Circuit recently held that where a website user did not receive sufficient notice of the terms in a browsewrap agreeme...

California's recently passed privacy law relating to tracking users appears to be very limited in scope, but attorneys still a...

A new study by a trio of accounting professors suggests that reducing reporting requirements is contributing to market volatil...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

Rocket dockets are moving immigration cases in San Francisco and Los Angeles dealing with unaccompanied migrant children. Lawy...

For years, pay-to-play rules on the federal, state and local level have been on the rise. Yet, one of those rules may be headi...

A recently filed complaint by Robert Redford highlights, among other things, the complexities nonresident taxpayers may run in...

When it comes to immigration, engineers, restaurateurs and housecleaning entrepreneurs are planes of the same gem. Any reform ...

You've completed your cross-examination of an adverse witness feeling good. Now, with the right motions, opposing counsel won'...

San Francisco-based plaintiffs' lawyer Joseph M. Alioto must pay more than $31 million to a law finance lender, a San Francisc...

Two partners are leaving Bingham McCutchen LLP for Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, according to a source familiar...

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP and the Bar Association of San Francisco hosted the bar association's 10th annual Bay A...

San Francisco lawyer Mary Alexander was named "Trial Lawyer of the Year" last month by Washington, D.C.-based legal advocacy o...

In an uncommon move from in-house to private practice, True Religion Apparel Inc.'s former general counsel has landed at Ezra ...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has withdrawn its request for $2 million from Apple Inc. in the latest demonstration that the sma...

Thirty years after insolvency specialists Arthur A. Greenberg and Robert D. Bass decided to join forces, their San Fernando Va...

Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC has hired James D. Richman as shareholder and chair of its small but growing Southern C...

On Wednesday, the state Senate will vote on legislation that could eliminate a major offense to the American ideal of equal ju...

Commenting for the first time, L. Tracee Lorens and co-counsel Debra L. Hurst say the Brinker agreement was a hard-won victory...

A state bill to loosen franchisors' strict control on franchisees appears headed to victory. But the real significance of the ...