More than any other substantive area of law, securities class actions rarely go to trial and are either resolved in motion pra...

Trusting your accountant's advice about when your taxes are due might be a big mistake, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals pa...

Frustration bubbled over among attorneys as U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali rejected yet another attempted lawsuit agains...

An Assembly budget subcommittee Wednesday gave its support for some less controversial proposed court fee hikes and service cu...

From left: Pasadena Mayor Bob Bogaard, Foothill Unity Center executive director Betty McWilliams and lawyer Donald P. Schweitz...

Ballard Spahr LLP along with CSG Advisors held its 3rd Annual Western Housing Conference on March 22 at the Hyatt Regency Cent...

An alert to the math-impaired: those clerical calculation errors could come back to haunt you if the state Supreme Court rules...

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC added a product liability group to its San Francisco office when it brought on tw...

A judge Thursday released Superman attorney Marc Toberoff from claims of tortious interference by Warner Bros. Entertainment I...

From left: Sharon F. Rubalcava, partner at Alston & Bird; Jacqueline Caster, director at Everychild Foundation; Sandra Phi...

On March 21, the Asian Pacific American Women Lawyers Alliance held its first instillation dinner and celebrated 20 years of s...

Fenwick & West LLP represented Cisco Systems Inc. in the company's intent to purchase small-cell maker Ubiquisys Ltd. for...

A focus on animation is what the two-attorney team at Klein & Wilson said separates them from its big firm competition. Wi...

The legal industry saw the highest number of law firm mergers and acquisitions in a single quarter since the first quarter of ...

A man whose identity was used by a Fresno County correctional officer to send "inflammatory" letters to jail inmates cannot co...

Neutral Steven Block's specialty is handling difficult clients, angry litigants, and hard feelings. ...

Famed class-action litigator Melvyn I. Weiss is not likely to face any significant jail time as a result of a drunk driving ar...

Early-stage companies are involving more investors in funding rounds, while the average dollar amount of such rounds has incre...

Amazon wants to own the top-level domain name dot-app, but so does Google. And 11 others. And they may be on the brink of a b...

Since the state's redevelopment agencies began to dissolve last year, California has faced a torrent of litigation over specif...

Any company that has suffered a cyberattack needs to know that the SEC is taking an increasingly hard line on what must be dis...

State Supreme Court justices suggested they might adopt a limited exception to the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreas...

A State Bar judge has recommended disbarment of Del Norte County District Attorney Jon M. Alexander after the first-ever trial...

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

It hardly ever happens - a trial over the state's unique toxics warning law. The high-stakes case scheduled to open Monday co...

Maybe you are one of the 140,000 people who snapped-up a copy of Sheryl Sandberg's new book "Lean In." But what about employer...

In March, the Federal Trade Commission released new guidelines for online advertisements, the culmination of a two-year proces...

Several California appellate court decisions highlight the importance of drafting arbitration contract terms that the courts w...

With the law unclear on whether punitive damages awarded in an underlying case can offset any alleged damages in a later malpr...

In a 6-3 opinion authored by Justice Stephen Breyer, the U.S. high court found that Section 109(a) of the Copyright Act has no...