After losses in California and New York, Sirius XM Radio has won summary judgment in Florida federal court, dismissing copyrig...

Lydia I. Beebe, who has spent the past 20 years as corporate secretary and chief governance officer of Chevron Corp., joined W...

Patent holders are barred from charging royalties from licensees once a patent has expired, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Mon...

In a divorce proceeding between two multimillionaire finance attorneys, the wife gained a bit of traction on Monday in proving...

A federal jury in Orange County has awarded close to $60 million to the family of a woman who died due to a defective heater. ...

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

The California Department of Motor Vehicles has said that it will release full accident reports on crashes involving self-driv...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Metropolitan Courthouse) ...

Calling the legal claims premature, U.S. District Judge Troy Nunley dismissed a railroad industry lawsuit over a new state law...

The column on contempt actions did a good job of highlighting the complexities in contempt proceedings, but it at times fell p...

Why do our state's election laws allow candidates in all of its elections (judicial and non-judicial) to designate their occup...

In a move away case, attorneys must consider the detriment to the child, both if the child remains with one parent, or relocat...

Following a recent revelation that upwards of 1,000 cases at the courthouse had been tampered with, Judge Thomas J. Borris has...

Navajo tribal sovereignty clashed with federal death penalty politics Friday as a divided federal appellate panel affirmed a c...

Unsatisfied with the partial reversal of a $930 million patent damages award for Apple Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. is a...

A special task force report said it could not easily determine what forces have pushed the cost of legal education up and reco...

United Airlines Inc. profiled the wrong minority, a lawsuit filed Friday in Santa Clara County Superior Court alleges. Satjiv ...

Faced with California's ongoing water shortage, the Judicial Council is considering a conservation plan this week that may lea...

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

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Sylmar) ...

A state high court on Monday may suggest we have finally reached a point where housing rights are finally recognized as import...

In a biennial report mandated by statute, the state auditor also criticized the regulatory body for not disciplining lawyers c...

A class action set to be filed Friday alleges that Verizon Wireless secretly tracked its subscribers' browsing history, bundle...

In working to resolve disputes, neutral Kevin McKenney always tries to make a personal connection with people and his central ...

The time for pleading ignorance on the risks of cybersecurity has long passed for law firm leaders. Clients are becoming impat...

One of the most important factors courts will consider when determining whether your fees were reasonable is "the informed con...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling helps delineate the parameters of when and how a state employee can safely blog or tweet on her ow...

As self-driving cars move closer to "deployment" - i.e., sales to the general public - debate has arisen as to whether special...

As Will Rodgers would say, "Everyone talks about it, but nobody does anything about it." But on Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court...

Aimed at curbing robocalling, the rulings are being derided by critics as fodder for abusive litigation. ...