The state Supreme Court is issuing a lot fewer decisions than a decade ago, with the decline driven by a drop in civil opinion...

Most people assume that an environmental law is meant to improve the environment. But in the case of one aspect of the Califor...

Electronic discovery received much attention in 2014 from the courts, agencies and bar associations across the country. By Vig...

Current Associate Corporate Counsel and Corporate Secretary Lynne P. McGhee will become California Water Service Group's first...

The court will allow employees to have five floating holidays starting January after a strike in October. ...

But being outnumbered is nothing new for small outfit Samini Scheinberg PC. The six-attorney firm has faced off against some o...

Allen Matkins hosts holiday reception ...

Americans for Prosperity challenged Kamala Harris' authority to revoke its tax-exempt status for refusing to turn over the don...

In one case, the justices will be asking how far the state can go to limit seawall construction on the California coast. In th...

Albert Dover hails from Nevada County - the heart of gold country - and many lawyers said he is, like his adopted hometown, th...

Ventura County Superior Court should have allowed an evidentiary hearing over whether to disqualify a prosecutor in a high-pro...

A massive surge in popularity enjoyed by CrossFit Inc. over the past several years has also led to another major increase for ...

In an attempt to speed the removal of lead from aviation fuel, a California nonprofit on Wednesday announced it had settled a ...

Both new and veteran online marketplaces may see an uptick in legal complaints from increasingly frustrated counterfeiting vic...

When the president took action to grant temporary relief from deportation to up to 6 million people living in the U.S., he was...

The 31-year-old blanket ban on blood donations from gay and bisexual men makes no scientific sense, if ever it did, and serves...

Intellectual property strategies for wearables encompass approaching the devices from all sides: considering IP inside and out...

Stephen H. Beecher will be sentenced in January for trying to give his client a card containing heroin. The Sherman Oaks attor...

A vote to confirm longtime Silicon Valley lawyer Michelle K. Lee as the new permanent director of the U.S. Patent and Trademar...

A new report by Ernst & Young outlined the successes of U.S. initial public offerings in 2014, characterizing the year as ...

As an en banc appeals panel reviews Cindy Garcia's injunction against Google for "The Innocence of Muslims," different views e...

The 2007 subprime mortgage crisis pummeled junior lenders whose second liens went from above to below water almost instantaneo...

A former State Bar president and two superior court judges won unanimous approval to serve on state courts of appeal in San Fr...

California employees at Wal-Mart Stores Inc. have scored a victory after a National Labor Relations Board administrative law j...

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

The fate of several California employment lawsuits over whether workers must be paid for time spent waiting at security checkp...

Wearables like Google Glass and Fitbit, and myriad others, are not only revolutionary, but also key instruments in the phenome...

California's anticipated recreational marijuana ballot initiative in 2016 will have global effects far beyond state borders. B...

Last week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein wrote to the Federal Aviation Administrator signaling her intent to pursue legislation to exp...

Three IP attorneys helped Aethlon Medical Inc. in San Diego sort through the patent process in the U.S. and Europe for the Ath...