The family of an Italian woman killed last year by a motorist on the Venice Beach boardwalk filed a lawsuit Tuesday against Lo...

Seven months after merging with an East Coast intellectual property boutique, the national firm Baker & Hostetler LLP cont...

At a Judicial Council meeting Tuesday, members voted to pursue an additional $22.7 million from the state to backfill a projec...

Facing the prospect of another unfavorable decision from a federal appeals court, Apple Inc. has dropped a major patent litiga...

Small firms and sole practitioners have been facing hurdles in an inhospitable court system for civil lawsuits, requiring more...

Companies seeking to leverage the benefits of social media must also be mindful of the legal constraints and risks surrounding...

Last month, the state Supreme Court heard a case to decide whether a franchisor will be liable for acts of franchisee-employee...

On July 14, as a part of the Strategic Enforcement Plan it rolled out in 2013, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission iss...

Latham & Watkins LLP is representing Burlingame-based airline operator Virgin America Inc. as the company readies its init...

Attorneys for three people injured when a motorist drove onto the Venice Beach boardwalk last summer filed suit last week agai...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with eight East Bay agencies to stop sewage discharge into t...

The state Supreme Court unanimously held that state regulators can sue trucking companies for misclassifying their workers as ...

Paul Brajevich is the firm's third addition to its government and regulatory group within the past eight months. ...

A patent infringement lawsuit filed by Rockstar Consortium US LP against a smartphone hardware partner of Google Inc. will rem...

Federal prosecutors are increasingly intercepting emails between incarcerated defendants and their counsel for "security" reas...

A federal judge has ordered half a dozen financial institutions to appear in court Tuesday to explain why they shouldn't have...

Juvenile court Judge Denise de Bellefeuille is dedicated to hope, caring and second chances.

Preexisting ties between lawyers at Goodwin Procter LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC guided their representatio...

Nicole Bershon compares her work as a site judge in Inglewood to that of a traffic controller.

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

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The slow onset of declining mental health is a serious problem for the federal judiciary, where life tenure means an aging ben...

When U.S. District Judge Cormac Carney ruled that California's death penalty system is unconstitutional, he cited a 1995 law ...

The anti-SLAPP statute provides that a prevailing defendant is entitled to recover his or her attorney fees and costs but does...

The objective of this article and self-study test is to review the principles and recent case authority concerning the Fourth ...

Gov. Jerry Brown has nominated his legal affairs secretary, Jonathan K. Renner, to serve on the 3rd District Court of Appeal i...

Michele M. Castillo, a longtime Ventura County deputy public defender, has been selected to serve as a Superior Court commissi...

The San Francisco 49ers lost more than a shot at the Super Bowl to the Seattle Seahawks this year. They also lost a former gen...

O'Melveny, Gibson Dunn, Paul Hastings and others plan to donate legal services to the growing population of unaccompanied immi...

A Monterey County judge has signaled he will block an oil company's bid to drill wells near Pinnacles National Park until it c...