The city of Ontario filed a claim against Los Angeles Thursday in an effort to wrest control of the struggling L.A./Ontario In...

Oakland officials may face sanctions for limiting the work of a compliance director charged with reforming the city's police d...

Jones Day has snatched Fred W. Alvarez from Wilson Sonini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Palo Alto, where he was co-chair of the ...

Members and friends of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California convened in downtown Los Angeles in March to cel...

An appellate court upheld a city's affirmation that residential developments are exempt from CEQA review if the development is...

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson visited Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco as pa...

A three-judge panel on Thursday denied the state's motion to vacate a 2009 court order that prisons be brought to 137.5 percen...

MedeAnalytics Inc., an Emeryville-based health care performance consultant and data analytics company, announced the appointme...

The U.S. Supreme Court is set to consider whether scientifically altered human genes are patentable in what several legal obse...

His name, Marc Toberoff, first came up on a Web search. It was 2001. Mark Warren Peary, the nephew of Joe Shuster, the comic w...

Global transparency is coming if it isn't already upon us. And with the intersection of technology, Twitter, WikiLeaks and the...

Facing sanctions that could include jail time, attorneys who filed controversial suits against users who allegedly downloaded ...

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

San Francisco-based Farella Braun & Martel LLP has stayed independent even as many other small and mid-size firms have mer...

General Counsel and Corporate Secretary of LegalZoom.com Inc. Glendale ...

Ensuring consistency in expert opinion by simply deferring to whichever opinion was offered first fails to realize that scienc...

Concerns that a single woman who chooses to have a child using donor sperm will lose all protection from parentage claims unde...

Many were surprised that after Kirtsaeng, the Supreme Court denied a petition to review the Federal Circuit's ruling th...

Police in California cannot take you into custody following a routine arrest for an infraction, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

The U.S. House of Representatives is set to vote on a bill that would halt the National Labor Relations Board from conducting ...

International firm Brown Rudnick LLP won't be starting from scratch with its first foray into the West Coast after its merger ...

Maybe it was the proximity to America's gambling mecca, but ever since John C. Hueston secured a pre-trial dismissal of mortga...

Latham & Watkins LLP and Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy LLP are representing homebuilder William Lyon Homes and the u...

In a major coup for Bingham McCutchen LLP, noted intellectual property litigator Richard de Bodo and four colleagues from DLA ...

State Bar leaders on Thursday will begin exploring the idea of licensing nonlawyers to provide certain legal services to consu...

Jones Day represented a private tenant-in-common entity, sponsored by Thompson National Properties LLC, in purchasing a 102,00...

The ruling, which only applies to the unidentified taxpayer who requested it response to an energy project, is limited to that...

The case is of particular interest in the damages context because the patent owner had sought and obtained a jury award based ...

At the top of your brief, the judge will give you the gift of shining the spotlight of undivided attention on your argument — ...

If Wesley Snipes is dispensing tax advice -- and I doubt that he is -- I imagine that today he might be more likely to give so...