A bill that would increase judicial discretion by making detailed reports available to bench officers in charge of setting or ...

To deter insider trading, brokerage houses can keep their financial advisers on a short leash by forbidding them from opening ...

An Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday highlighted two successful efforts by courtworkers unions to protect their mem...

A Los Angeles-based partner who worked at auditing behemoth KPMG LLP is under federal investigation for allegedly selling priv...

When the state Supreme Court takes up the case next month to determine how to value petroleum refineries in the state, three s...

In a move aimed to end deadlock in the National Labor Relations Board process, President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he wil...

Judge Sandra Ann Thompson is known for her ability to put cranky defendants at ease.

Congress is entertaining the idea of a visa category for entrepreneurs. Yet observers say pressure in the current Congress to ...

It is no secret that class action lawsuits have become harder to certify in federal court; in the Central District of Californ...

International firm Brown Rudnick LLP will merge with Orange County-based boutique Rus Miliband & Smith in an effort to exp...

Reed Smith LLP, in concert with San Francisco attorney Robert Rubin, recently took over the representation of a Haitian teen a...

A San Jose judge has ruled that the federal government failed to address the potential environmental impacts of fracking when ...

Jon M. Alexander's title is still district attorney of Del Norte County, despite having his law license suspended Sunday after...

The Howrey LLP estate has launched a second wave of litigation against seven law firms that hired former Howrey partners as it...

Michael S. Carona has lost a bid to have his 51/2-year federal prison sentence reduced on the grounds the Supreme Court has si...

U.S. venture capital firms raised less money across fewer funds this quarter compared to the year-earlier period, though Silic...

A constitutional challenge of the state's Talent Agencies Act is heading to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. ...

A pro bono team from K&L Gates LLP helped successfully shoot down California's motion to dismiss a decades-long case regar...

Opening statements began Monday in a case that tests the limits of a federal anti-hacking law and raises questions of when tak...

U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken on Monday granted preliminary approval to a $29.75 million class action settlement in an em...

Wall Street companies fought bankruptcy protection for Stockton, fearing city employees would be shielded at their expense. Bu...

California companies and law firms could see more litigation financing as a result of Chicago-based Gerchen Keller Capital LLC...

Four Chinese companies have again dodged involvement in an economic espionage case, leaving federal prosecutors frustrated in ...

Family Court Judge Michael Begert hopes to have a positive impact, no matter the assignment

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

As unions have seen their membership decline precipitously since the 1980s, they have developed alternative techniques for adv...

The former deputy general counsel for Zynga Inc. has left the gaming company to take a break from work. ...

It is reasonable to suppose that Americans can learn from the French example (or from other comparative law examples), and cou...

A federal judge denied, for now, class certification for former employees at Silicon Valley technology behemoths but gave the ...

A U.S. investor with no residence in China that sells shares of a Cayman Islands company, which in turn holds shares in a Chin...