Hewlett-Packard Co. notched a win on Wednesday in a legal spat with Oracle Co. when a Santa Clara County Superior Court judge...
The Consumer Attorneys of California earlier this year supported changes to a fee associated with jury trials, but the is now...
Lawyers say the new federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's first lawsuit -- targeting a Los Angeles lawyer -- makes po...
California Supreme Court
Privacy rights group asks for review in juror Facebook case
By Emily Green
An influential privacy rights group has filed an amicus letter with the state Supreme Court urging it to grant review in a cas...
U.S. Supreme Court
Lawyer's debt collection mill overstepped by mailing letters to employers
By John Roemer
A debt collection mill run by a Hollywood lawyer overstepped by mailing dunning letters to hundreds of debtors' employers, a d...
Intellectual Property
Apple seeking sanctions against Samsung, Quinn in patent case
By Hadley Robinson
Apple Inc. said Wednesday it will seek sanctions against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. attorney John B. Quinn, partner at Quinn...
Immigration
DOJ argues against undocumented immigrant's admission to bar
By Don J. De Benedictis
California may not legally admit an undocumented immigrant to practice law, the U.S. Department of Justice has told the state ...
Sutman, Treister & Glatt inked a deal with landlord Douglas Emmett Inc. to renew its lease for 25,000 square feet at 1901 ...
Apple Inc. revolutionized mobile computing with homegrown inventions, featured in the iPhone and iPad tablet computer, that Sa...
Although some courts are stretching their resources, others seem to have given up. By David M. Cairns ...
The tax consequences of being married - or not married - are huge. ...
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has had a handful of opportunities to apply the teachings of Dukes to other putat...
As it turns out, it is very difficult for one to obtain medical marijuana from a licensed healthcare provider. By Aaron C. Lac...
Labor/Employment
Judge tosses class claims after employer settles with individual plaintiffs
By Brian Sumersn
After an employer took steps to settle claims with its workers, a Los Angeles County Superior Court judge has thrown out a maj...
Discipline
State Bar argues in favor of remanding discipline plea bargains
By Don Debenedictisn
The State Bar responded Tuesday to defense attorneys opposed to its efforts to claw back two dozen discipline plea bargains pr...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
Native American tribe loses court fight over fishing rights
By Fiona Smith
A closely-divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow Tuesday to a tribe that is battling the federal government to...
Labor/Employment
Workers' attorneys ask 9th Circuit to salvage class action
By John Roemer
The changed class action landscape following a key U.S. Supreme Court decision last year was debated Tuesday before a 9th Circ...
Former Perkins Coie partner Harold R. DeGraff must take his compensation dispute into arbitration, a federal judge ruled this ...
Warner Bros. has launched an assault on businesses selling counterfeit DVDs of the studio's material on Amazon's marketplace i...
Two parties involved in a legal row over Gov. Jerry Brown's upcoming November tax increase measure have filed responses to a p...
The convictions could have widespread ramifications for public corruption trials, including the defendants in the city of Bell...
August marks the month when law firms across the country recruit at college campuses. By most accounts, next summer's class si...
Same-sex marriage opponents have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse lower court rulings that struck down as unconstitutio...
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The committee in charge of finding a new director for the Administrative Office of the Courts ditched a headhunter's work to i...
Intellectual Property
Choosing jurors in Apple-Samsung trial a tough task
By Craig Andersonn
Trying to find 10 unbiased jurors in Silicon Valley to decide the trial between Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd pro...
Kirkland & Ellis LLP represented Sunquest Information Systems Inc. and owner Vista Equity Partners in a planned $1.4 billi...
A federal appellate panel on Monday revived the lawsuit of an administrative law judge working for the federal agency in charg...