The Senate Judiciary Committee has once again delayed action on a bill aimed at reducing frivolous patent infringement lawsuit...

Two years ago, lawyers with McDermott Will & Emery LLP were disqualified for representing clients on both sides of a paten...

A federal three-judge panel appointed former California appellate justice Elwood Lui to a newly-created position in which he w...

The San Francisco-based software startup hopes to raise up to $150 million, according to its Securities and Exchange Commissio...

The bar's trial counsel has improperly withheld no contest pleas in the settlement of bar disciplinary matters, opening up cl...

The program will award $5,000 to $15,000 to bar associations, courts, law schools or other groups that propose to employ new l...

In this installment of our series, we share experiences unique to female attorneys and their interactions with male attorneys ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Newly filed depositions shed light on genesis of Silicon Valley recruiting policies.

A roundup of recent merger and acquisition and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Bucking a trend of secrecy when it comes to finances, firms are increasingly taking a proactive approach to disclosure. Some c...

General Counsel of Prosper Marketplace Inc. San Francisco ...

One appellate court has arguably tightened the application of the "sophisticated user" defense in California. By Brian Davies ...

The European Parliament recently passed a draft directive titled the Network and Information Security Directive. By Grant Davi...

The U.S. high court recently resolved a three-way split amonth the circuits regarding who has standing to bring a false advert...

A San Bernardino County judge got a break last week when he won an unusual lawsuit against the county that allowed him to keep...

The plaintiffs settled a wage and hour lawsuit with Bank of America Corp. and a subsidiary for $5.8 million, resolving the emp...

Moody's Investor Service Inc. and Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC asked an appellate court to throw out the lawsu...

Benjamin Blakeman balked after receiving a bill from the agency seeking upwards of $10,000, claiming his clients failed to re...

Goodwin Procter LLP grabbed corporate partner Rezwan D. Pavri from Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC on Wednesday, welco...

It's a plaintiffs' attorney's dream: discovery unearthing a record in which the defendants agree to work out agreements "verba...

Just under half of California's 2013 law school graduates had found good lawyer jobs by mid-February, compared to 57 percent n...

In three separate schemes in Russia, Poland and Mexico, employees of Hewlett-Packard Co. bribed foreign government officials w...

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

Sealing court records is a tricky endeavor where one false step may expose confidential information to public view. By James C...

Northwestern has until Wednesday to appeal the decision and the players are scheduled to vote on union representation April 25...

In 2013 alone, over 825,000 patent applications were filed in China, a 26.3 percent jump from 2012. By Enshan Hong and Kent Ch...

In the latest legal shot against Sutter Health, the Sacramento-based healthcare provider has been accused of unfairly dominati...

To untangle an acquisition that a federal judge found consolidated too much power in the online ratings and reviews market, Ba...

As pressures mount from the Affordable Care Act for small physician groups to join larger organizations, boutique health firms...