A federal judge's ruling unsealed Monday leaves music publishers free to jump in or out of the next blanket licensing deal bet...

In the wake of the absorption of Bingham McCutchen by Morgan Lewis, Daniel Cooperman has moved from Bingham's Silicon Valley o...

Gov. Jerry Brown's recent nominees for the California Supreme Court have been showered with unusual advance criticism, primari...

Seeking to safeguard California from rail shipments of crude oil in allegedly unsafe tank cars, environmental groups on Tuesda...

Plaintiffs' attorneys told a federal jury on Tuesday that Apple Inc. violated antitrust law, costing consumers and resellers m...

Even after a 2012 law reformed the state's rules for filing disability access suits, a handful of attorneys have continued fil...

NBC has announced they are cancelling their short-lived comedy, "Bad Judge." It's about time. By Anthony J. Mohr ...

Why would a business entrepreneur ever consider a sale to a money-chasing private equity fund rather than another strategic bu...

To be sure, 2014 will be remembered as a year the world changed - the year that honest disclosure gave way to raw deception; t...

The Michael Brown shooting case provides an opportunity to explore important issues concerning the role of the prosecutor. By ...

The nonprofit organization will welcome a new president and vice president along with seven new board members. ...

State Bar leaders began exploring how to replace fired executive director Joseph L. Dunn, including whether the replacement mu...

Wireless phone service provider Cricket Communications Inc. has agreed to a settlement with federal prosecutors, ending a disp...

General counsel of AdRoll Inc. San Francisco Size of legal department: 1 lawyer ...

Harry Dorfman considered a show business career but found his true calling in the courtroom.

Project finance attorney Adam S. Umanoff will move from Akin Gump to take the top legal spot at Edison International in Januar...

Twitter Inc. was unable to persuade a Northern District federal judge to dismiss a proposed class action that accuses the soci...

James H. Pooley, a longtime Silicon Valley litigator turned international diplomat, has moved into private consulting and arbi...

In an opinion this fall, the 2nd District Court of Appeal refined the limits of title insurance policies. ...

Tens of thousands of Holocaust survivors receiving German pensions related to their imprisonment in Nazi-controlled facilities...

Some literary estates might want to pay attention to a little-known termination quirk of the 1909 Copyright Act. By John M. Gr...

Leaders at Locke Lord LLP and Edwards Wildman Palmer LLP announced Monday their partnerships had approved the planned merger o...

More than 100 healthcare, pharmaceutical and other companies - as well as legal counsel - could face vexing securities law iss...

From activist to prosecutor, corporate lawyer to the bench, Judge Lucy Koh is making a big impact.

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

Santa Barbara County Judge James Voysey relishes the wide variety of criminal cases he handles.

Lawmakers are hurrying to amend last year's AB 1159 law to respond to the president's recent executive actions. But questions ...

California places substantive and procedural restrictions on lenders' right to deficiency judgments upon the foreclosure of re...

This coming Dec. 15, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals will engage in a rare en banc rehearing of a case that, culturally ...

With the recent release of the documentary "Citizenfour," we must ask, is Edward Snowden the valiant whistleblower or the cont...