A year-and-a-half long federal investigation into Los Angeles County Superior Court and the state judicial branch has found th...

Atlanta firm Freeman Mathis & Gary LLP grabbed a foothold on the West Coast when it officially welcomed the attorneys from...

Heller Ehrman LLP's bankruptcy is entering a new frontier. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali will soon be faced with unique ques...

The court granted certiorari on the issue of whether a parens patriae action by the state itself in state court against a defe...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC represented San Francisco-based Salesforce.com Inc. in its $2.5 billion acquisition of...

Plaintiffs' lawyer Raymond Boucher is moving to a new firm, citing the drain on firm resources caused by his divorce. Boucher ...

San Diego-based biopharmaceutical company Trius Therapeutics Inc. has named an industry veteran as its first general counsel a...

The Howrey LLP estate has filed a flurry of adversary cases over the past week, seeking to recover over $7.7 million as it app...

Holliday Fenoglio Fowler LP represented an affiliate of Zelman Development Co. and Grayburn Properties Inc. in securing a 10-y...

Arbitration agreements are unenforceable when employees bring representative lawsuits against companies for certain infraction...

The world's best research university is about to dip a toe in the pool of a growing number of schools that have formed startup...

A State Bar panel intends to propose that all California lawyers over a certain age, possibly 50, be required to take a contin...

There aren't nearly as many summer jobs at big law firms these days as there are law students who want them. The timing couldn...

Summer associate programs may never again reach their pre-recession sizes. This year, legal observers say most big firms are h...

The truth is that for Taylormade and countless other brands, Sergio Garcia's insensitive statement represents the most recent ...

Each of the 535 members of Congress earns at least $174,000 a year. These salaries are alarming as the median household income...

Feuer, who will take office July 1, names more than 40 former officials and judges, attorneys and community leaders to the team.

A Sacramento County judge on Tuesday upheld the validity of a hard-fought deal over how to divvy up shrinking Colorado River w...

A budget conference committee voted Monday to fund a pilot program to provide court interpreters for civil cases in three coun...

A failed cancer drug that sent biotech giant Amgen Inc.'s stock plummeting also wrecked employee pension plans, giving workers...

Recruiting partners at small and midsize law firms agree that credentials matter. But what can often make a difference in whom...

The International Trade Commission has issued a limited exclusion order against Apple Inc. products that were found to have in...

The catalyst behind a proposed bill to require the state to ask judicial candidates and judges about disabilities and previous...

The American Bar Association has asked the U.S. Department of Labor to declare law firms safe from wage actions when they use ...

Appellate lawyers angling for an edge in federal court may be tempted to try most anything - only to be frustrated by vigilant...

The 6th District Court of Appeal upheld judgment in favor of the casino's tip-pooling practice requiring card dealers to contr...

What is perhaps most surprising is that Tesla's main vehicle, the Model S, doesn't just work; it excels - wildly. By Jonathan ...

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

Overturning a superior court decision, an appeals court panel determined that a book deemed obscene and confiscated by prison ...

In a victory for companies fighting against class certification, a panel of 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges late last...