A recurring theme in each of the U.S. Supreme Court's six patent decisions from this past term was the court's attempt to rein...

California appears ready to offer the electric car maker relief from CEQA in hopes of landing the $5 billion "gigafactory," re...

The state Supreme Court ruled 4-3 on Thursday that a person involved in a serious car accident can be convicted based in part ...

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Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

After banks tightened up their lending activity in response to the financial crisis, a business opportunity opened up for othe...

Counsel CloudFlare Inc. San Francisco ...

Senate Bill 1188, which was (thankfully) recently pulled from consideration, would have been a job killer, encouraging unwarra...

Although no civil right is absolute, if you asked the average American whether or not it is lawful or moral to take a person's...

A line cook at a family restaurant in Houston was arrested on child pornography charges last week. The Internet collectively r...

Attorneys said the city of Los Angeles' decision to pay $26 million to settle a lawsuit over its ban on napping by garbage tru...

Houston-based intellectual property boutique Novak Druce Connolly Bove & Quigg LLP is bringing in partners in Northern Cal...

The Obama administration has ordered courts to move recently arrived kids to the front of the line. But attorneys, civil right...

When Morrison & Foerster LLP selected its first managing partner for Europe last month, it made a particular kind of manag...

Lawyers and academic experts hailed a judge's ruling that California needs to ensure adequate English instruction for non-nati...

A roundup of recent real estate deals activity and the lawyers involved. ...

Lawyers say improvements in risk assessment associated with the sensitive areas and a willingness on the part of cities to neg...

Many local agencies are resisting the push to standardize permitting, arguing that such an edict will unfairly favor solar ove...

With a massive development surge, cities such as San Francisco are tweaking their zoning codes, and some, such as Los Angeles,...

Generally, no evidence of anything said and no writing prepared in the course of a mediation is admissible in any civil or fam...

The Internal Revenue Service published proposed regulations that clarify the definition of "real property" for purposes of the...

Just as the economy is starting to look up, the consideration of new rules regarding "critical habitat" and "jurisdictional wa...

The entitlement process as practiced in the halls of local government since the real estate development industry's nascent re...

A long-standing debate may finally be resolved: Does CEQA require analysis of not only a project's impacts on the environment,...

Well-considered signage can enhance the value and presence of a development project in an urban center or high-traffic locatio...

Commercial real estate attorneys in California must be prepared to address emerging issues in response to the changing commerc...

The ABA House of Delegates formally endorsed a broad rewrite of the standards for accrediting law schools but asked for new co...

A new study from the American Bar Foundation found that many people do not understand problems they experienced to involve law...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled this week that Arizona prisoners' outgoing legal mail is constitutionally protect...