California law graduates carry especially high levels of debt: The state hosts one-third of the 24 law schools with the...

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

The bidding war that erupted last week for the storied St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica is shining the spotlight on th...

As "May Revise" season progresses, I hope the governor and the Legislature will take special note of the adult disabled, their...

In the end, the Federal Circuit judges seem reconciled to the likelihood that the Supreme Court will step in to provide much-n...

A recent 9th Circuit decision continues the close judicial scrutiny of class settlements and requires counsel to reconsider th...

Yahoo Inc. avoided a potential blow to its cash reserves after a Mexico appellate court overturned nearly all of a $2.7 billio...

The California attorney general's office approved, subject to various conditions, Tesoro Corp.'s $2.5 billion acquisition of m...

A pair of disbarred British solicitors who spent years fighting English regulators in efforts first to keep and then regain th...

Extending courtroom and ballot successes by the genetically modified food industry, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ...

Sacramento native Raquel Marquez was the first Latina judge in the Inland Empire.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added two partners in the past week: Michael R. Heimbold in the Century City offic...

A near-death experience changed Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Brian Walsh's outlook.

Pamela Davis, a veteran Los Angeles traffic court commissioner, is known as a 'less-threatening' and 'warmer' version of a jud...

This generally results in fewer people being included in the representative action (though it might not mean less exposure giv...

It is certainly true that patent exhaustion was no defense, but the court got it wrong when it comes to the word "makes." By K...

Occasionally we all want to start over and try again, but can you ever really go back? ...

The job of counsel is to advise their respective clients as to both liability and potential damages. But without the benefit o...

With just a dozen attorneys, the Prison Law Office has arguably done more to change state prison policies than any other firm ...

The state Supreme Court gave a reprieve Thursday to a trustee whose mistake led to a foreclosed home being sold at auction for...

James Spaltro has an interesting history as a rock performer and in a top secret military program during the Vietnam War. Now,...

Judges will get more protection in investigations under new rules adopted by the Commission on Judicial Performance, but the C...

The Justice Department's surreptitious look at Associated Press phone records in an effort to identify an alleged national sec...

The Anti-Defamation League Centennial Entertainment Industry Dinner was held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on May 8. ...

On May 10, the Association of Corporate Counsel Southern California Chapter hosted its 18th Annual Gala Dinner and Pro Bono Si...

Pre-litigation demand letters were under the microscope Thursday in the 2nd District Court of Appeal, as a panel of state cour...