Although California presents opportunity, it also presents an often unique set of employment risk propositions, which are ofte...

California has 40 percent of the nation's ADA lawsuits, but only 12 percent of the country's disabled population. By Katherine...

This year, while the Supreme Court was expanding false advertising access to the Lanham Act, the circuit courts were busy maki...

As the year comes to a close, it's increasingly clear that the future of communications - whether business or consumer voice, ...

Facebook Inc. must face a lawsuit accusing it of scanning users' private messages for advertising purposes in violation of fed...

Immigration cases continued to dominate the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' docket in 2014 as judges wrestled with and ofte...

Attorneys are eyeing a handful of laws passed this year by the state Legislature and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown as signs of la...

While the U.S. Supreme Court decided six patent cases this year, one has emerged as the most important with profound practical...

The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog is facing extinction and in his own small way, Nossaman LLP partner Paul Weiland hopes to...

Patent law underwent a seismic shift in 2014, thanks in large part to a series of groundbreaking opinions from the U.S. Suprem...

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

Municipal and environmental law attorney Karen A. Feld Feld swam for the first time in the FINA World Masters Championships la...

There are six important lessons from this year, which demonstrate that a holistic approach to cybersecurity is crucial. By Hsi...

To me, a lifelong civilian, torture was something practiced by barbaric and brutal enemies. It was something Americans suffere...

Mark S. Algorri and Ernest P. Algorri win large verdicts after serendipity brings the partners from DeWitt Algorri and Algorri...

Six months after a high-profile U.S. Supreme Court decision, judges have responded to questions of whether patent protection s...

The Motown legend is set to settle with his ex-wife in a case that would have tackled novel issues of federal copyright and st...

A Fresno lawyer served his lawsuit for fees on himself as the client's agent for service and then obtained a default judgment....

As a dispute resolution specialist with JAMS, former Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ann Kough is guided by two tenets...

Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday named nine judges to superior courts in Los Angeles, Kern, Stanislaus and Orange counties. ...

Third party litigation funding appeared to gain momentum in the U.S. market this year, with more investments by established fu...

As South Korea prepares to unveil new rules for U.S. law firms operating in the country, attorneys in California voice caution...

Last week, the NLRB filed 13 complaints against McDonald's and its various franchisees for alleged unfair labor practices comm...

Plaintiffs' lawyers in wage and hour lawsuits are chasing after a smaller number of potentially lucrative class actions agains...

Rolling Stone's controversal report on rape at the University of Virginia warrants a discussion on the difference between lyin...

Several important California family law cases were decided this year in the areas of property rights and support, custody and ...

Products liability attorneys would be wise to study its development, and be prepared to re-think how they represent clients in...

Gov. Jerry Brown on Tuesday appointed Michael Picker as president of the beleaguered California Public Utilities Commission an...

In a rebuff to the chemical industry, a Sacramento County judge has ruled that the state acted properly when it listed the che...

Kessler & Kessler ALC, a husband-and-wife business law boutique in Century City, looks back on two decades. ...