Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Thursday she had reached a settlement with the city of Jurupa Valley over claims t...

In Riverisland, the state Supreme Court dealt a serious blow to the enforceability of integrated written contracts by e...

As part of its national push to expand its public company transactional practice, Kirkland & Ellis LLP has hired a former ...

Kern County has lost again in its long-running fight with the city of Los Angeles to enforce a voter-approved ban on spreading...

A South Lake Tahoe police officer was arraigned Thursday on charges related to instructing a witness to destroy evidence and ...

In a merger that involved roughly a dozen law firms, the boards of directors of both AMR Corp., parent to American Airlines In...

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

Todd B. Scherwin, who spent eight years as a partner in the firm's Irvine office, heads to Los Angeles in an effort to grow bu...

Kabateck Brown Kellner LLP filed a lawsuit Thursday against New Hampshire Apartment Inc. and Affordable Housing Alternative fo...

Sen. Barbara Boxer's judicial advisory committee is already getting applications to fill the position of U.S. District Judge S...

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership organization of nonprofit legal services programs, held an a...

The city of Oakland's legal effort to stop the federal government from shutting down the country's largest not-for-profit medi...

Mattel Inc. Wednesday asked a federal court to let it step aside while rival MGA Entertainment Inc. and its insurers and legal...

U.S. District Judge Susan Y. Illston of San Francisco was wrong to dismiss a price-fixing case by mobile phone companies again...

H.J. Heinz Co. is being purchased by Berkshire Hathaway Inc. and 3G Capital Management LLC for $28 billion in cash, the larges...

On Feb. 7, Hogan Lovells and Fox Entertainment Group partnered with UCLA School of Law's Critical Race Studies Department and ...

"The most sacred of the duties of a government is to do equal and impartial justice to all its citizens." To accomplish this g...

Judicate West neutral Linda Quinn has a mission to help ease the courts' budgetary woes.

The Orange County Trial Lawyers Association celebrated its 50th anniversary and installed its officers and board of directors ...

Lawyers are treading cautiously amid concerns that an uptick in apartment prices, coupled with deal competition and a possible...

Thomas Jefferson School of Law held its 13th annual Women and the Law Conference on Feb. 8 on its new campus in downtown San D...

After a year of merger talks, US Airways and American Airlines have reached an agreement that would combine the companies, cre...

A federal bankruptcy judge will allow former employees of Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP to bring a putative class action against the...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP represented Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. in Samsung Electronics America Inc.'s purchase of NeuroLo...

An Assembly Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday highlighted the impact of funding cuts to courts over the years and warned wor...

After losing a bid to get the case against her dismissed Wednesday, Susan Skaer - the former general counsel at Mercury Intera...

Speaking at a San Francisco public high school Wednesday, Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye emphasized her life story as the y...

The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District filed criminal securities fraud charges against 16 defendants who together...

Orange County officials on Wednesday agreed to allow Muslim women to wear hijabs, or religious scarves, during their time in t...

In recent years, some DA offices have created conviction integrity units to double-check the work of prosecutors to ensure con...