The state Supreme Court, once noted for its unanamity, has issued a string of 4-3 rulings in recent months, reflecting a divis...

Apple Inc. warded off an infringement claim brought by Google Inc. after the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Monday ...

Commissioner Joshua Wright recently pledged to develop an evidence-based approach to enforcing the FTC Act's enigmatic Section...

For the past 30 years, the ATS has been the principal vehicle for plaintiffs claiming human rights violations to litigate tran...

Apple Inc. warded off an infringement claim brought by Google Inc. after the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled Monday ...

Under the new model, fast-growing San Bernardino and Riverside counties, as well as Los Angeles, will see an increase in fundi...

A shuttered Southern California hospital system faces a civil lawsuit from the Department of Labor Standards Enforcement, whic...

Six federal judges are closer to receiving a salary increase and more than $200,000 in back pay from the six years when Congre...

Attorneys bringing a complaint in San Francisco County Superior Court have requested to dismiss two credit rating agencies fro...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher represented Camarillo -based alternative energy company Power-One Inc. in its sale to Zurich-based...

A state agency's lawsuit against the Law School Admission Council Inc. for discriminating against disabled students taking the...

Defense attorneys for Standard & Poor's moved to dismiss the government's $5 billion civil suit Monday, claiming the case ...

Class counsel cannot structure settlements that in effect bribe class representatives to support the deal, a 9th U.S. Circuit ...

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

By 2100, waters could rise by more than 5 feet, putting billions of dollars worth of property at risk and raises a host of leg...

The court's decision in Citizens Climate Lobby v. CARB was a step in the right direction for both the environment and ...

As is clear from the broad spectrum of legislation introduced, interested parties have very different perspectives on what the...

Heather E. Williams, a veteran first assistant federal public defender from Arizona, is set to take over the top federal defen...

The Environmental Protection Agency's efforts to police the clean up of so-called "superfund" hazardous waste sites through co...

San Francisco's new "Veterans Justice Court" is dedicated to former military personnel who have been charged with nonviolent a...

Santa Clara University School of Law announced Friday that Lisa Kloppenberg, former dean at Ohio-based University of Dayton Sc...

A federal appeals court Friday rejected a bid by truck drivers and environmentalists to block Mexican big rigs from entering t...

Ellen M. Peter, chief counsel for the California Air Resources Board, spoke to the Daily Journal about the agency's requiremen...

A new approach to continuing legal education drops the hours requirement and gives lawyers more freedom to plan their own prog...

Federal prosecutors contend David Nosal oversaw a conspiracy to steal trade secrets and direct a cohort of co-conspirators to ...

For the most part, the California rules mirror the federal rules, with California perhaps providing greater protection by plac...

Once an undercover security guard, judge knew early she wanted to handle criminal cases.

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