Courts provide robust protection for the ability to post anonymously. However, when remarks turn into defamation, this protect...

Plaintiff Robert F. Lopez alleges the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation had a duty to catch the sentenci...

California's commercial real estate market is bouncing back to levels not seen since 2001, according to a new survey from Alle...

Google Inc.'s attorneys, citing a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year, argued in a memorandum filed Tuesday that a judge shoul...

Attorneys for four Arco gas station owners delivered closing arguments Tuesday to a packed courtroom here, seeking to convince...

Paramount Pictures is edging into new territory with an unprecedented revenue sharing deal with AMC Theaters but attorneys say...

The Alien Tort Statute provides an important tool for victims of the most horrific wrongs. However, U.S. courts have increasin...

Earlier this year, the Department of Defense made clear that the Obama administration believes the DOD has a role in defending...

Jennifer J. Banks Executive Vice President, General Counsel & Corporate Secretary Alexandria Real Estate Equities Inc. ...

King & Spalding LLP is opening a Sacramento office by poaching Stephen L. Goff and his team of healthcare attorneys from D...

Karen L. Stevenson's practice focused on complex commercial litigation with an emphasis on securities litigation and defense o...

Warren E. Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway Inc. brought in longtime legal advisers from Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP to lead the ...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit clarified the scope of the International Trade Commission's review authority...

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a brief supporting the plaintiff in a Northern District lawsuit that acc...

U.S. District Judge Andrew J. Guilford on Monday appeared ready to rule out arbitration and keep in court what could be an exp...

In a complex fee fight involving a law firm's $15 million bill, the state Supreme Court on Monday reversed an appellate court ...

Santa Clara County Judge Joshua Weinstein strives to approach cases as an adjudicator, not a mediator.

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

A former CIA general counsel and McGeorge dean, Elizabeth Rindskopf Parker relishes rapid-fire decisionmaking and putting the ...

While it is true defeating certification is a dispositive event for certain types of class actions, to the surprise of many, t...

As two leading climate scientists have said, "[t]he further we push our Earth outside of its mode of operation of the past mil...

The 9th Circuit continues to be an active jurisdiction for False Claims Act cases so far in 2015. Courts have unsealed around ...

Arco franchisees ran highly successful businesses despite their claims that supplier BP West Coast charged them too much for t...

Former Los Angeles County presiding judge James Bascue will be arraigned Sept. 4 in Orange County court in connection with a J...

The national legal sector gained just 200 jobs in July, according to data released Friday by the Bureau of Labor Statistics. L...

Reversing a lower court, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Internal Revenue Service must treat unmarried co...

The U.S. government is seeking Supreme Court review of a game-changing ruling which has wreaked havoc on insider trading convi...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal heard arguments on whether public university's government immunity can be waived under a find...

More than 30 years ago, a lawyer for a murder trial witness agreed with Lassen County's district attorney to hide the witness'...

The State Bar of California named Vanessa L. Holton as its new general counsel Friday, filling the slot left vacant by the fir...