Recent data shows that most venture funds did not perform significantly better than comparable small public equity portfolios....

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The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a Southern California pharmaceutical company's challenge a judgment allowing investors t...

In what could be an unprecedented internal election, two hopefuls have expressed interest in filling the presiding judge seat ...

Judge Robert Perry can be intense as he moves criminal cases rapidly through the system.

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Appellate Justice Laurie D. Zelon is committed to ensuring court access for pro se litigants.

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The suit claims the soon-to-be-launched carbon trading market violates the federal Civil Rights Act by adversely affect blacks...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer seemed unpersuaded Friday that the plaintiffs suing Wal-Mart in a downsized gender bias ...

The ALJ's order found that double-blind, randomized clinical trials were not necessary for claims of the type that POM made. B...

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The court's ruling effectively permits co-authors to dispute each other's copyright interests more than 35 years after the fac...

In a move legal observers said showed unusual timing, the state Supreme Court could soon decide whether a criminal defendant h...

An East Coast firm that has steadily boosted its Silicon Valley presence in recent years has hired a new corporate partner to ...

9th Circuit judges have two times their caseload, a backlog of 14,000 undecided matters and the slowest resolution time. By Ca...

A group of developers scored a $6.1 million verdict after a jury found that San Jose flouted an agreement to fast-track their ...

After a personal-injury settlement agreement went haywire, all but one of the original trial lawyers have withdrawn from the c...

A team of financial insolvency and restructuring lawyers led by prominent Costa Mesa-based attorney Craig A. Barbarosh has lef...

The decades-long legal battle over the 43-foot cross marking a federal veterans memorial site at the peak of Mount Soledad in ...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP added Yury Kapgan as partner in Los Angeles. Kapganspecializes in intellectual prope...

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

Judge James Cox got flak for rigidity, but lawyers respect his command of probate matters.

California's otherwise active plaintiffs' bar ignores one potentially lucrative area of litigation. Favored by employers and o...

Former Los Angeles County judge joins JAMS after 28 years on the bench, including 15 years as the Northeast district's only pr...

Former investment fund manager John Farahi pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges Thursday, admitting he swindled millions of...

The former CEO of Pegasus Wireless Corporation was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday for participating in a complex se...