An Orange County Superior Court judge abused his discretion by denying a trial date continuance for a pro se litigant who didn...

A Lake County contract public defender's blunders plus flawed reasoning by a trial judge led a state appellate panel Wednesday...

After four years fighting against the governor for parole, a California court of appeals appears to handed a definitive win to...

A Pasadena law firm filed a class action Wednesday against two trucking companies, claiming hundreds of truck drivers at the p...

Heading into his final months in office, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday appointed a new appellate justice and 16 Supe...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has cleared up murky disclosure rules between companies and shareholders, say Edward Ha...

The Coastal Environmental Rights Foundation's attempt to stop the pyrotechnics display fizzled Wednesday after Judge Linda Qui...

Defendants accused of trademark infringement should be able to claim the jus tertii defense when the plaintiff's own us...

On the second day of questioning for U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan, Republican senators intensified their focus on co...

San Francisco criminal defense lawyer Dennis Riordan is hoping that Monday's gun rights ruling from the U.S. Supreme Court wil...

Bernard Bilski and Rand Warsaw are back to square one after 13 years of fighting for their business method patent for hedging ...

David Hricik guides practitioners through the maze of professional ethical issues that can arise during patent litigation. ...

Morrison & Foerster's San Francisco presence has lasted for 125 years and a new real estate deal ensures it will stay ther...

Through strategic partnerships with organizations like Sunnyvale-based Plug and Play Tech Center, more startup lawyers are gam...

Los Angeles County Judge Jon Robert Takasugi's father was a legendary state and federal court judge after whom the son tries t...

The family of a mentally-ill woman who went missing after she was released from a Malibu sheriff's station in 2009 filed a sec...

A Cuban national who pretended to be an attorney in an elaborate scheme to bill other immigrants for his purported legal servi...

San Francisco antitrust attorney Joseph M. Alioto Tuesday filed a lawsuit in San Francisco federal court seeking to block the ...

A San Francisco federal judge dismissed the price fixing claims of AT&T Mobility, Motorola and Nokia Corp., granting a mot...

Palo Alto-based Tesla Motors Inc. raised more than $226 million in its initial public offering Tuesday, and saw its shares ris...

A salmon fisherman traumatized when a cargo ship nearly struck his boat in dense fog off Point Reyes in 2007 can proceed with ...

A Redwood City-based biotechnology company is striking deals with major pharmaceutical companies, giving its partners the opti...

San Jose-based Veraz Networks, Inc., has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a lawsuit with the SEC, an apparent preemptive strik...

Will Hoffman discusses three trends that have gained judicial prominence in the past year since California's Electronic Discov...

The 9th Circuit has paved the way for thousands of miles of migratory flyways used by endangered birds to become protected cri...

Kirk Pasich of Dickstein Shapiro provides insight on what triggers an insurer's duty to defend and what limits apply. ...

U.S. Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan faced tough questioning Tuesday over her role opposing the federal "don't ask, don't te...

As Judge Vaughn R. Walker readies his opinion on the constitutionality of California's same-sex marriage ban, the plaintiffs c...

The U.S. Supreme Court passed on an opportunity to remake patent law Monday, with a cautious opinion that largely keeps the st...