Last week's opinion Italian Colors came as no surprise to those of us who have closely followed the court's jurispruden...

President Obama has nominated Ann Ravel, chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, to serve as a commission...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is enacting layoffs and pay cuts, the firm announced Monday in a firmwide email. ...

Defense attorneys on Monday cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which held that someone who takes a generic drug cannot sue t...

A major creditor in the San Bernardino and Stockton bankruptcies retained new counsel to represent it in the cases after a jud...

The governor signed a bill allowing bench officers to consider a detailed risk assessment report when setting or denying bail ...

Online search company Google Inc. has confirmed it is working with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust inv...

Goodwin Procter LLP hired Grant P. Fondo as a partner in the firm's Menlo Park office for its securities litigation and white-...

Pittsburgh firm Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC opened its first California office by partnering with local intellectua...

Hermosa Beach-based Virtual Piggy Inc., the first tool to allow online retailers to accept payments from consumers aged 13 and...

Tokyo-based telecommunications company Softbank Corp. appears primed to take a majority stake in Sprint after Dish Network Cor...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center) ...

A state Assembly committee will hear a bill Wednesday that would deny state funding to charter cities that don't require contr...

A woman who helped embezzle more than $2 million from NFL defensive end Dwight Freeney could walk away with a probation senten...

Constitutional protections for the belongings of homeless people, affirmed last year by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals,...

The panic defense tactics are relics from a time when the LGBT community faced widespread hatred and discrimination with few o...

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

If Congress passes comprehensive immigration reform legislation, the State Bar intends to be ready with state laws to target l...

Vice President, Corporate Business Development and Legal Affairs, of Renewable Energy Group Inc. San Francisco ...

Re: Profile of Justice Stephen J. Kane, June 13. By Joel Drum ...

Re: "Proposed rules encourage 'sky's the limit' fee gouging," June 17. By Stanley W. Lamport and Robert L. Kehr ...

A proposed Russian law, for example, would even ban single heterosexuals from adopting if from a nation where same-sex marriag...

A central problem posed by consumer privacy litigation is how to place a dollar value on privacy violations. By Brian S. Kabat...

A court's recent validation of the "quantification settlement agreement" will hopefully ensure the reliability of Southern Cal...

Real estate transactions attorney Allan E. Low jumped from Nixon Peabody LLP, where he was a partner, to Perkins Coie LLP as a...

A long-standing patent infringement lawsuit originally filed by Rancho Palos Verdes-based Ultramercial LLC may ultimately prov...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP is representing 3-D printer manufacturer MakerBot Industries LLC in the company's upcoming sale to S...

After weeks of speculation, the White House has confirmed that Twitter Inc. executive Nicole A. Wong will join the Obama admin...

A new report details how cuts have impacted San Diego courts. Published at a time when lawyers are looking to lawmakers for mo...

The state Judicial Council will consider a proposal to require parties in civil cases file and serve documents electronically....