Arent Fox LLP made its move into San Francisco official Wednesday when it announced it has nailed down office real estate.

A prominent plaintiff's attorney and Los Angeles law firm lost their bid for an additional $3 million in attorneys' fees just ...

A federal judge's dismissing the latest case challenging the constitutionality of the California Talent Agencies Act didn't co...

Cooley LLP continued its raid on the corporate law department of Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP with the hiring o...

To begin with, there are no Tesla dealerships. Rather, Tesla is reinventing the purchase experience by replicating a sales exp...

One by one, the state is losing small satellite courthouses to budget cuts. While the closures result in job losses and inconv...

Confusion between bankruptcy and receivership is quite common, even with creditors and attorneys, especially those who do not ...

Today, despite the guarantees of the Equal Pay Act, gender based wage disparity persists. Women still earn on average 77 perce...

The law has withstood U.S. Supreme Court review and endured public scrutiny in a hotly contested 2012 presidential election, b...

In return for upholding American values, many immigrants seek to improve the quality of life by paying taxes to support commun...

A debtor can avoid a lien on a motor vehicle -- even a Mercedes -- if it is a "tool of the debtor's trade," the 9th U.S. Circu...

Stanford Law School announced Tuesday that electoral law professor Nathaniel Persily will join its faculty this summer from Co...

El Segundo-based Mattel Inc. sold $500 million in bonds with help from Sullivan & Cromwell LLP.

Northern Marin County-based commercial aircraft engine leasing company Willis Lease Finance Corp. on Tuesday announced the cha...

San Mateo-based plaintiffs' lawyer Michael Danko is a step closer to getting an overdue payday from his former colleague, whom...

A San Diego-based partner won a cutthroat race to steer part of the shareholder litigation against Hewlett-Packard Co. after p...

A federal appeals court will reconsider a case over whether the government properly considered the imperiled delta smelt fish ...

The reality of sequestration is moving into clerk's offices and chief judges' chambers this week, as leaders in California fed...

Never before has Los Angeles County provided the home addresses and phone numbers of its 55,000 employees to the workers' unio...

Thompson & Knight LLP announced the opening of its second California Office Tuesday, with the addition of one partner and ...

The city of Los Angeles is struggling to gain the upper hand over a small air pollution control agency in a power struggle tha...

Many lawyers have probably encountered Section 409A of the tax code without knowing it, and that in itself is frightening, as ...

It has been over seven years since the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission issued its order concerning interconnection of sma...

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

San Francisco attorney Hannah L. Blumenstiel has been appointed as a bankruptcy judge for the Northern District of California.

The Alliance of California Judges, well known for its criticism of the state's judicial branch governance, is seeking to prese...

It was a gut-wrenching screw up. Even so, the attorney who accidentally missed oral argument before the state Supreme Court la...

In another setback for Arizona's immigration crackdown, a federal appellate court ruled Monday that a law barring drivers from...

The ruling applies the landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in Wal-Mart v. Dukes and puts in jeopardy plaintiffs' $5.2 million...

Arthur Conan Doyle published most of his Sherlock Holmes stories from 1887 to 1927. Works published before 1923 are likely in ...