Recent cases show that California superior courts are increasingly sustaining demurrers to certain affirmative defenses, which...

A recent court of appeal decision expounded on the "reasonable expectation of the insured" doctrine for interpreting ambiguous...

Two recent appellate courts grappled with a defendant's ability to compel arbitration pursuant to an arbitration agreement aft...

Struggling California sea otters are free to live anywhere along the California coast thanks to a decision by a Los Angeles di...

District Judge Edward M. Chen largely denied the industry's motion for preliminary injunction, which would have blocked a city...

Melanie P. Grace officially started in her role as general counsel of Hercules Technology Growth Capital late last week. The f...

The plaintiffs' expert witness testimony doesn't hold water in case where residents of a LA County-owned public housing develo...

Trademark lawsuits challenging Google Inc. and other search engines' sales of keywords as advertising have kept those Internet...

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP announced it will add a new labor and employment partner, Harry I. Johnson III, fresh off a st...

A jury trial that started Monday in superior court will take on hot-button age discrimination and journalism ethics issues, an...

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...