A Wal-Mart Stores Inc. contractor embroiled in employee disputes suffered another setback Wednesday after a federal judge rule...

In 2011, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated the decision in Sonic-Calabasas and remanded the case back to the state high court for...

Attorneys with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP have scored a defense win for lenders against claims by a New York-based real...

In short, a court stated that the EPA cannot create its own regulations and that exceed its statutory authority by the creatio...

In my 35-plus years or so since first being admitted to the bar, including my years in corporate and private practice, I had n...

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

The 9th Circuit let a malpractice action continue against a Pasadena lawyer involved in bringing Filipino teachers to the U.S....

The University of California Board of Regents approved a $1.2 million settlement Wednesday in a whistleblower lawsuit that spa...

Stockton bargained with bondholders in good faith and deserves protection under municipal bankruptcy law, the cash-strapped ci...

San Bernardino County Superior Court officials announced Wednesday plans to keep one courtroom open temporarily in the court's...

United States banks are selling rights to service their mortgages in response to anticipated implementation of capital require...

A federal judge on Wednesday decided to leave it to a San Francisco County judge to determine whether an attorney owes thousan...

For the second time this week, a divided Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a landmark gay marriage case - this time over t...

Karen Golinski was in the spectator seats at the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday as the justices heard oral argument over the con...

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC will launch in downtown Los Angeles next month and has hired a team of intellectual pr...

Head of legal and business affairs at Flipboard Inc. Palo Alto ...

Overseas Union Enterprise, a Singapore-based diversified real estate owner developer and operator, bought Los Angeles' 72-stor...

Instead of the broad ruling for or against same-sex marriage that partisans crave, the U.S. Supreme Court may confine its deci...

You might be surprised about who pays what, who doesn't pay, and how you fit in according to recent IRS statistics. ...

In "Two Presidents Are Better Than One," David Orentlicher shows how the "imperial presidency" and partisan conflict are large...

Unfortunately, Prop. 65 has ended up doing far more to enrich a small number of lawyers than clean up water or protect the pub...

The fate of a decades-long lawsuit regarding conditions in California state prisons will be in the hands of a federal judge W...

In the latest round of a brawl between rival healthcare employee unions, the appellate court ruled that local union officals i...

A San Francisco County judge who is known for jump-starting the debate on marriage equality was in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals Tuesday upheld a district court's decision in favor of Lancaster in a case alleging the...

Small cross-border deal activity with Europe was slow in 2012, but lawyers say such dealmaking has been picking up of late. Th...

A state appellate court ruled Tuesday that San Diego school officials did not provide enough evidence to warrant firing a teac...

A Judicial Council subcommittee presentation yesterday highlighted some examples of how much money a new method for divvying u...

Covered California, an independent state agency tasked with creating a new health insurance marketplace for individuals and sm...

George Cardona, the number two prosecutor in the U.S. attorney's office for the Central District, is stepping down Monday to t...