Despite representing a multi-billion-dollar annual market in the U.S., electronic cigarette devices have never been subject to...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Charles Wilson applies a holistic perspective to his work on the bench.

Bankruptcy court judge M. Elaine Hammond likes for attorneys to keep things in perspective. ...

A prisoner cites the medical community’s about-face on Shaken Baby Syndrome in seeking habeas relief. ...

During a decade-long stint as a judge at San Francisco County Superior Court, William J. Cahill passed along a challenge to co...

When Doniger / Burroughs says it tries more copyright cases than anyone else in the country, it isn't a sales pitch. ...

Guidance Software Inc., a Pasadena-based data security software company, named Alfredo Gomez as its general counsel Thursday. ...

Los Angeles County Superior Court participated in the statewide "Great Shakeout" one step further than required. Rather than s...

A lawsuit filed Wednesday in the Southern District challenges the constitutionality of requiring paroled sex offenders to post...

California's unaccredited law schools, which the State Bar has expressed support for gradually phasing out, may soon be requir...

A final settlement was approved Wednesday in a federal lawsuit considered the prequel to a potential class-action regarding Ri...

The council has selected Millicent Tidwell, who starts next month. ...

After 2nd District Court of Appeal reverses itself on the issue, the high court will ask whether Latham brought malicious trad...

After nearly a decade of lobbying, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office officially launched a permanent California outpost Thu...

Google Inc. has defeated a lawsuit that alleged the Mountain View-based company infringed patents related to data transmission...

Among attorneys recently disciplined by the State Bar three were disbarred by default, two were disciplined following convicti...

The California Public Utilities Commission is weighing vying proposals on how to reshape the popular net metering program that...

More diversity in law school is needed to save the practice of law. By Thomas F. Guernsey ...

The Bureau of Land Management recently said a proposed water project in San Bernardino may not locate a water conveyance withi...

The governor just signed a new drone bill, but vetoed four similar bills. Why? By Scott C. Hall ...

The Supreme Court just heard argument on whether it should retroactively apply a ruling that forbids mandatory life without pa...

The Delaware Court of Chancery's decision to quash a settlement last week sent a strong signal that the nation's go-to forum f...

Corporate Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary MannKind Corp. Valencia ...

A plaintiffs' class of former student-athletes have cried foul on an objector in their $60 million worth of settlements with E...

Jay-Z and Timbaland took the stand Wednesday as defendants in an eight yearslong copyright suit from the heir of an Egyptian c...

To Superior Court Judge William A. McLaughlin's concern, verbose witnesses have set the tone of an increasingly combative age ...

The value of Bank of Internet USA plummeted Wednesday, after a federal lawsuit was filed by a whistleblower. ...

Senate Bill 682, which sought to subject trial courts to the same contracting restrictions as other public entities, was vetoe...

Arguments focused closely on questions of mootness and Article III jurisdiction. ...