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

The region's air pollution regulator has sued Los Angeles over its approval of a project which supporters say is critical to m...

President Obama intends to appoint Public Counsel Law Center's Catherine Lhamon as the assistant secretary for civil rights in...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday unanimously ruled arbitrators can decide whether arbitration agreements allow class claims to...

Seeking to stake a bigger claim in Southern California's burgeoning startup scene, Latham & Watkins LLP Monday hired a lat...

The presence of a Democratic governor, Jerry Brown, threatens the Republican Party's longtime stranglehold on the state appell...

Re: "Why our high court must narrowly construe labor laws" (May 29). By Kevin K. Green

Re: "State Bar homes in on older lawyers" (June 6). By Irwin (Chip) Chasalow

Re: "State Bar homes in on older lawyers" (June 6). By Edward R. Leonard

"The Scottsboro Boys," the final collaboration of Kander and Ebb (Ebb died in 2004), has the prolific team going out winners. ...

Being tertiary and often descriptive in nature, catch phrases may not be searched and cleared in the usual trademark approval ...

Kaufman Dolowich & Voluck LLP, an 80-lawyer East Coast firm with small offices in San Francisco and Los Angeles, announced...

Environmentalists and the city of Long Beach have sued the city and Port of Los Angeles over its approval of a large new rail ...

Though both the number of unemployed people and the unemployment rate remained essentially unchanged in May, the U.S. legal se...

A top official's decision to declassify certain information about a federal surveillance statute is rippling across federal ca...

Renewable energy specialist Kerin L. Cantwell has joined the Los Angeles office of Dechert LLP as a corporate partner, leaving...

TiVo late last week settled long-running patent disputes with Cisco, Motorola and Time Warner Cable over its digital video rec...

Senior U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer of San Francisco has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate to serve on the U.S. Sente...

The timing of the recent uproar over warrantless surveillance by the government may be unhelpful for Google Inc. as it defends...

If the taxpayer misses the deadline, the IRS can proceed to assess and collect the tax. Usually. By Bruce Givner and Owen Kaye

Mary M. Roberts, who has suffered criticism during her seven-year leadership of the Administrative Office of the Courts' provi...

A Sacramento painter facing foreclosure recently sued a bank for violating a new California law designed to ensure fair lendin...

An economical and potentially legally devastating method for introducing Internet writings into evidence is by requesting judi...

The act renders any court reversal of nonregulated status or a court injunction against growing plants that have been proven t...

Importantly, the case stands for the proposition that sophisticated contracting parties may allocate commercial risks, includi...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Dennis B. Arnold and Arthur Mazirow, a principal at Mazirow Real Estate Dispute Resolu...

An Oakland-based plaintiffs' firm has won more than $27 million for clients who lodged an asbestos lawsuit against an Ohio-bas...

Destructive wildfires that scorched thousands of acres of national forest land in Northern California have led to $50.5 millio...

K&L Gates LLP grabbed an intellectual property partner from its neighbor Haynes & Boone LLP in Orange County, part of ...

The California Employment Lawyers Association hosted its second annual Diversity Leadership Summit on May 21 at Loyola Law Sch...