Early in his career, Scott S. Markus was the best full-time attorney-mediator in San Diego.

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

Despite decades of losses, attorneys for medical malpractice plaintiffs are mounting a new batch of attacks on a 1975 law that...

General Counsel of SunPower Corp. San Jose ...

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Wednesday she filed a lawsuit against energy companies Phillips 66 and ConocoPhill...

The nation's plunge off the "fiscal cliff" may have been averted, but lawmakers did little to address potential funding cuts t...

A U.S. International Trade Commission judge has proposed an import and sales ban, along with an 88 percent bond rate, on vario...

MidAmerican Solar on Wednesday acquired two co-located solar power projects currently under construction in Los Angeles and Ke...

Delivering another blow to Apple Inc.'s lawsuit against Amazon.com Inc. over use of the term "app store," a federal judge gran...

William C. Price, a partner with Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, claimed victory Wednesday for his client, Micron T...

Andrew Guthrie Ferguson reminds us that whether we like it or not, we are all constitutional actors. The following is an excer...

Chiding attorneys on both sides of Apple Inc.'s patent infringement lawsuit against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. for their pro...

Silicon Valley technology giants have ramped up the pressure on a Washingtion, D.C.-based federal appeals court as it consider...

Harris Education Consulting, Inc., won a $10.2 million arbitration award last Thursday after a JAMS panel concluded that Harri...

For many of Silicon Valley's newly wealthy, making charitable donations is as much about philanthropy as it is about avoiding ...

A California life insurance company accused of gouging policyholders cannot duck behind the shield of federal securities law t...

In 1990, Chinese residents filed fewer than 6,000 patent applications. In 2011, China filed more domestic patent applications ...

M West Holdings, a private real estate investment company, purchased a 26,273-square-foot apartment community in Hollywood. Th...

As the patent arms race heats up around the globe, with corporations opening new battlefronts in foreign countries while they ...

While judicial notice of court records is often requested, its scope and meaning is frequently misunderstood and it is rarely ...

The average adviser registered with the SEC gets examined once every 11 years, and some advisers go more than 15 years between...

IP disputes typically involve entities with competing products and result in the entities licensing each other; claims by non-...

The 21-year-old Milken Institute, which advances innovative solutions to social and economic problems affecting the U.S. and b...

Judge Barbara Tam Nomoto Schumann started at the Orange County Superior Court in 1997 after working as a municipal judge for 1...

A domino effect set in motion by a changed landscape for startup companies is making it harder for emerging companies to get r...

With the possibility of new cuts to courts in 2013, advocates for more court funding say the impact of budget reductions to th...

An appellate court ruling reversed part of the lower court's decision, which said the Lawrence Livermore Lab retirees improper...

In the latest skirmish in a long and high-profile legal battle between production company Crusader Entertainment, LLC and nove...

It's becoming something of a tradition for presiding judges of the Los Angeles County Superior Court to offer up doom and gloo...

According to the San Bernardino public defender's office, it recently became the only such agency in California to ditch ink a...