Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, who is presiding over a ream of Toyota unintended acceleration case...

In a decision expected to change how agencies must evaluate the environmental impacts of large infrastructure projects, a divi...

At the Legislature's directive, the California Law Revision Commission is set to begin studying the relationship between media...

Stockton Judge Roger Ross recovered from a life-threatening illness to reassume the bench.

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Upstart website Gigit.com allows individuals to hire bands to play shows at a private venue. But it's also gained the attentio...

General Counsel for Cornerstone OnDemand Inc. Santa Monica ...

Re: "Bills May Set Limits on Fees Lawyers Charge Immigrants," June 24. By Lisa Baker Jones ...

As the state high court recently held, prosecutors must actually produce evidence rather than just arguments. The U.S. high co...

Is modern American health care truly at a strange new crossroads, or have we as a nation traveled this path before? By Craig B...

Mountain View-based intellectual property litigation boutique Turner Boyd LLP found another litigator to join its steadily gro...

Law school financing, accreditation and culture require dramatic changes, according to preliminary recommendations from a spec...

During a surge of national employment growth in July, the U.S. legal sector added 2,800 jobs, according to a report released F...

A 9th Circuit panel has directed opposing counsel to file further briefing on whether lawyers can peremptorily strike prospect...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP is adding a new partner in its corporate and emerging growth companies practice gr...

What started out as a brief stint away from O'Melveny & Myers LLP turned into a two-year leave of absence when Steve Olson...

An Alameda County judge has sided with the food industry in a closely-watched case in which the makers of products such as bab...

The U.S. Supreme Court rejected California's attempt to freeze a federal court order requiring the state to release thousands ...

Plaintiffs in the long-running gender discrimination case against Wal-Mart Stores Inc. lost their bid to certify a new class o...

An unhealed political wound looks likely to impede last week's nomination of John B. Owens to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

The city of Richmond on Friday sued Chevron Corp. for neglecting to prevent a fire that hospitalized more than 15,000 of its r...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, which established a foothold in Germany three years ago, is expanding to a third ci...

With the worst of the downturn in the rearview mirror, transactional attorneys believe that California financial institutions ...

After stints in Alaska and as a prosecutor, Judge Stephen Mock says he isn't budging from the bench.

Cynthia G. Aaron enjoys tackling complex legal issues and asking attorneys tough questions.

Eight partners from Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth PC left the firm this month to start their own boutique, Stuart Kane L...

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

Once a young, quiet appellate justice, Patricia Benke is now known for her strong leadership.

Plaintiffs would be emboldened to forum shop were the 9th Circuit to reverse course after 14 years and refuse to apply the ant...

In "Those Damned Immigrants," Ediberto Román takes on critics, drawing on empirical evidence to refute charges of links betwee...