Plaintiffs' lawyers want Keller Rohrback, Girard Gibbs, and Leiff Cabraser to take the lead. ...

Judge rules plaintiff can look at over ten years of the rappers concert revenue in epic copyright battle. ...

Mary Wiss' complex courtroom assignment came as a surprise, but she wasted no time catching up

With billions in public and private energy investments on the line, lawyers, renewable energy developers, clean tech companies...

Courts are increasingly called upon to determine whether a dispute is covered by an arbitration agreement. By Douglas Winter ...

California farming companies lost a bid to invalidate two grape crop patents held by a federal agency in an appellate court ru...

Glendale-based Public Storage has appointed longtime Ingram Micro Inc. attorney Lily Yan Hughes as senior vice president, chie...

Bruce S. Ross, chair of the firm's national private wealth services dispute resolution team, will join the probate, trusts ...

After zero growth in November, the legal industry added 500 new jobs nationwide in December with over 1.13 million positions, ...

In addition to making headlines, it appears that federal appellate judge Alex Kozinski's objection to a settlement also booste...

A recent 9th Circuit opinion calls into question the ironclad nature of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act as a lin...

But Brown's $3.7 billion budget for the judicial branch didn't fulfill courts' wish list - they'd hoped for an increase of $61...

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

U.S. Magistrate Douglas McCormick questions policies and procedures, looking for inefficiencies.

Longtime prosecutor and part-time woodworker, John Cope is thriving as a Contra Costa judge.

In labeling cases filed in the Northern District of California, federal judges have yet to approve of an adequate method of de...

Despite an affirmative ethical duty to encourage clients to settle and to not delay resolution, consensual dispute resolution ...

Two years ago, the Los Angeles County Superior Court reduced the number of individual calendar civil courts in the downtown Mo...

Emphasis on the use of social media within the practice of law has increased. But ignorance of the rules, no matter how new or...

While a recent California Supreme Court decision paved the way for construction of the state's high speed rail and groundbreak...

Former Chief 9th Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski and his wife have agreed to withdraw an objection to a settlement involving probl...

Sauer & Wagner added just three attorneys over the course of 17 years, even as it litigated matters for big names like Son...

Attorneys Timothy R. Busch and Michael W. Caspino will end their partnership in Busch & Caspino, after less than a year t...

Sofaer, who in 2007 founded the private adjudication service Federal Arbitration Inc., known as FedArb, is known for his exper...

U.S. District Judge James Otero ruled Thursday that construction of an amphitheater at the West L.A. Veterans Affairs Medical ...

In a decision favoring laborers who work 24-hour shifts, the state Supreme Court ruled Thursday that security guards who are r...

City Attorney Dennis Herrera has been sued by his former deputy chief trial counsel, who accuses him of firing her after she d...

Shortened sentences under Proposition 47 and SB 1310 will help reduce deportations ...

The firm brings on video game litigator Bruce Isaacs and entertainment dealmmaker Bob Wyman from Wyman & Isaacs. ...

The proposed opinion, the first in the nation on the topic, concludes blogs by lawyers fall under advertising rules if they ex...