The crime of simple kidnapping in California does not necessarily involve moral turpitude, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed shoe manufacturer Nike Inc. a victory Wednesday, preventing a smaller rival from suing to void i...

Five California municipalities filed lawsuits against a bevy of multinational banks Wednesday, claiming the financial institut...

Salesforce.com, an enterprise cloud computing company, inked a 230,000-square-foot office lease at One Rincon in San Francisco.

Dealmakers say West Coast media giants have already begun to change a Broadway long set in its way of doing business, counsele...

In 2012, online gaming companies tried their hand at real-money gambling while traditional casinos bought online gaming develo...

Tech giants such as Oracle Corp. and Dell Inc. purchased several cloud companies as they prepared for a marketplace that deman...

Personalized medicine companies purchased and sold themselves this past year as potential benefits in the health industry beca...

Even before Facebook Inc.'s May initial public offering settled at such astronomical numbers as $16 billion in funds raised at...

Last year, taking advantage of a strong yen and increasing confidence in Japanese markets, Japanese corporations purchased com...

It would be an understatement to say Leif B. King knows Yahoo Inc. well by this point. ...

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Lawyers say shareholder activism increased in 2012, with large companies facing activity once more common with their smaller c...

Even if you're a lawyer who relishes litigation, you probably do not want to fight with the Internal Revenue Service about you...

Recently, the 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals closed the door on the possibility that a CERCLA claimant can pursue both a co...

First Amendment considerations should have stopped the FTC's investigation at the outset. That freedom of speech is never ment...

The common wisdom on trial advocacy includes this pearl: Keep in mind how juries usually take in information in their lives, a...

Even if left undisturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court, on close examination the state Supreme Court's opinion may not be the unqu...

A San Francisco law firm cannot shield the financial records of a client from an IRS criminal investigation, a 9th U.S. Circui...

Fenwick & West LLP represented ThisLife.com Inc. in a sale to Shutterly Inc. that took just 10 days to complete. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled Tuesday that Los Angeles County officials did not violate the Clean Water Act when th...

In oral argument, the justices appeared ready to clarify that a felonious act definitively ends when the perpetuator has reach...

The next showdown between the city of Oakland and the federal government over medical marijuana dispensaries will take place l...

Two law firms traded briefs late last week over which is more qualified to represent a class of employees seeking to sue the H...

As incoming president of the Orange County Bar Association, Wayne R. Gross is finding new benefits for members from his person...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Daniel J. Buckley last week dismissed a class action by plaintiffs who claimed a denta...

California is facing a barrage of lawsuits in the wake of last year's dissoluton of redevelopment agencies, with the most rece...

Gov. Jerry Brown struck a defiant tone Tuesday, announcing it was time to lift a federal court-ordered cap on the number of i...