The 4th District Court of Appeal on Monday upheld the dismissal of one putative class-action lawsuit, and revived another, bot...

Thomas Morgan's "The Vanishing American Lawyer" argues that in the future, clients will need more specialized lawyers t...

Townsend and Townsend and Crew is offering companies facing patent infringement lawsuits a second opinion. Now they can come t...

U.S. Supreme Court justices Monday appeared unsure of how to resolve a dispute over whether UC Hastings College of the Law can...

William F. Delvac, left, Dale Goldsmith, Mark S. Armbruster, and R.J. Comer, in front of the Century Plaza Hotel, a client. ...

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Univision Communications Inc. Los Angeles ...

Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. will have to pay the $13.5 million for its role in making improper payments on a San Diego-bas...

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Saying it would "too narrowly focus on one solution," the Administrative Office of the Courts is recommending against using co...

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What married couples should know about obtaining innocent spouse relief. ...

Dana Frix and Jim Stenger of Chadbourne & Parke discuss the recent ruling questioning the FCC's "jurisdiction" over the In...

An Islamic group that recently won a ruling from a San Francisco federal judge that the government unlawfully spied on it has ...

Joan Cotkin of Nossaman says two recent cases about the rights and obligations of defending insurers under different circumsta...

Mattel Inc. did not abandon its trademark to Crash Dummies toys and games and thus can block a smaller competitor's applicatio...

UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu weathered wave after wave of sharp questions at his Senate grilling Friday, wi...

The Supreme Court has taken on its first cases regarding whether employees have a right to privacy when they send text message...

One bad apple may spoil the bunch for medical device companies seeking clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to...

As news of Department of Justice and SEC investigations into a German subsidiary of HP broke last week, the San Francisco offi...

Plaintiffs' attorneys in the national Toyota acceleration litigation met Friday in Orange County to discuss how to organize th...

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Courage of Her Convictions

A law intended to curb arbitration abuses by U.S. defense contractors may wind up giving a day in court to a much wider swath ...

Irell & Manella has recruited patent lawyer Greg Gardella in Los Angeles, the first partner-level addition since 2006, whe...

Guy N. Halgren has been re-elected to a fourth three-year term as chairman of the executive committee of Sheppard, Mullin, Ric...

Marine Sgt. Gary Stein's Facebook page, "Armed Forces Tea Party Patriots," is back up following a meeting Tuesday with his sup...

While many expect legal staff hiring to ramp back up this year, some question whether outsourcing could stand in the way of a ...

The newest edition of the often criticized but closely watched list of top law schools by U.S. News & World Report was rel...

UC Berkeley School of Law professor Goodwin Liu will face a barrage of attacks today from Republicans who claim he's unfit to ...

Ask Margaret Hay what sets her apart from other mediators and arbitrators, and she'll laugh. "My accent," she said. "But there...