Dialog Semiconductor PLC on Monday announced the $4.6 billion purchase of San Jose-based chipmaker Atmel Corp., a manufacturer...

A state Senate bill, which passed both houses of the Legislature last week, proposes giving businesses a 90-day window to obta...

Now that Volkswagen AG has admitted to rigging emissions tests on nearly 500,000 of its cars, lawyers are eying a potential li...

Superior Court Judge Fresno County (Fresno) ...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Non-California residents no longer have to pay more in fees than state citizens to fish here, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

"Nonpracticing entity"- to anyone in technology, these words instill images of monsters lurking in the darkness waiting to exa...

A 9th Circuit decision last week throws into doubt the ability of a bankruptcy debtor to avoid any challenges to a reorganizat...

A new law banning grand juries in cases where a police officer kills a citizen goes into effect soon. While the L.A. DA's offi...

A recent decision from the 9th Circuit is the latest in a trend of federal courts narrowing their jurisdiction to hear cases f...

Because the insurance for Metrolink operator Connex Railroad is governed by New York law, negligence cannot be grounds to exc...

The defendants in a trial pitting a pension benefit company against several of its former brokers and support staff were clear...

Apple Inc. won a partial final judgment on Friday exceeding more than a half-billion dollars as its first landmark smartphone ...

The managing partner of Perkins Coie LLP's Palo Alto office is jumping to Vinson & Elkins LLP to serve in the same role, a...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Karen E. Scott says her experience as a litigator handling both complex business and public law cases pr...

Lawsuit filed in San Diego federal court on Thursday is part of legal strategy to show AT&T was systemically not complying...

A rare consumer class action that went to trial ended in part with a defense verdict for homeopathic medicine maker Hyland's I...

An application from the State Bar to assume jurisdiction over the law practice of a Stanislaus County attorney arrested for mu...

San Francisco County Judge Suzanne R. Bolanos checks herself daily for unconscious bias.

Irvine-based attorney Ken Zhiyi Liang was convicted late Friday on three counts of obstruction of justice for attempting to he...

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

US District Judge Terry Hatter insists on decorum and good grammar in his federal courtroom.

Contra Costa County Judge Danielle Douglas, a former prosecutor, does a lot of self-evaluation. Contra Costa County Judge Dani...

Should the Olympic Torch make its way down Figueroa Street en route to Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum nine years from now, than...

Once people experience a story, it becomes part of their emotional memory and they feel and learn from the story as if it was ...

The ability of rainmakers to move between firms has always been an important selling point. But rainmakers often hit their hea...

Without further regulatory action, emergency water rules put in place this summer will expire early next year. By Jeremy Jungr...

Pepsi Beverages Co. reached a settlement Thursday with an Oakland-based nonprofit that alleged the company was not warning con...

Master of Ceremonies and comedic actress Kate Flannery led the audience in a chant of Ivy Kagan Bierman's name Wednesday night...

Sacramento County Superior Court judges elected Assistant Presiding Judge Kevin R. Culhane to become the court's next presidin...