Earn MCLE credit while brushing up on your Family Law litigation skills. By Michael Gassner and Gary Nadler ...

Plaintiffs pursuing a wrongful death case against a Beverly Hills medical center have moved a step closer to the difficult goa...

Several local defense attorneys have expressed interest in the job previously held by Gary Windom, who abruptly stepped down e...

Attorneys for Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. hope to use information in legal adversary Apple Inc.'s licensing deal with HTC Cor...

As more and more companies move to limit class action lawsuits by consumers and employers, technology companies are jumping on...

A trial court has tentatively ruled that San Diego officials failed to properly look at the impacts of a long-term regional tr...

Nearly six months after Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP entered into bankruptcy, lawyers for the firm's estate have submitted a compre...

Aram Peter Kezirian Jr., senior vice president of corporate strategy and strategic development for the Cooperative of American...

An Aliso Viejo lawyer pleaded guilty last week to defrauding Huntington Memorial Hospital in Pasadena, admitting he paid kickb...

An appeals court upheld a federal judge's order that a court employee should receive benefits for his same-sex spouse, and mus...

The estate of Heller Ehrman LLP dodged a late $100 million malpractice claim that a Santa Clara-based medical research company...

With the $350 million cut from the state Judicial Branch's 2011-12 budget and the $540 million taken this year, many of the fu...

Judge Glenn Yabuno's past helps him take each case as unique and worthy of close attention.

Alston & Bird LLP added James R. Evans Jr. as partner in Los Angeles. Evans, a trial lawyer, has experience defending comp...

Judge Joseph Farris' personal history shaped him, but he defies molds.

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Social media, while not yet a main source of client interaction for most attorneys, is becoming increasingly popular to connec...

Neutral James Alfano begins mediation sessions by talking directly to lawyers' clients to put them at ease.

Bad cases make good law. Gideon and Miranda and Brady were not saints. But we are each freer because the ...

In cases where creditors are able to exercise non judicial remedies to recover their collateral to loans and then seek deficie...

In a move confusing many in the juvenile justice community, the U.S. Supreme Court last month sent a young defendant's habeas ...

On Nov. 10, John A. Girardi, partner at Girardi Keese and Loyola High School alumnus, '65, was honored with the Cahalan Award ...

The Law Foundation of Silicon Valley held an award ceremony and fundraiser for its Legal Advocates for Children and Youth prog...

Sidley Austin LLP securities litigator Sara B. Brody is representing Michael Mendes, the embattled Diamond Foods Inc. CEO who ...

Mitchell S. Zuklie, who will take over as chairman for Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP in 2014, will have to juggle man...

Gov. Jerry Brown nominated two men for seats on California Court of Appeal on Wednesday, including one of his close advisers, ...

Boston Properties and Hines Properties formed a joint venture to acquire land for the so-called Transbay Tower project, a 1.4 ...

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

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will get a look at legal adversary Apple Inc.'s licensing agreement with HTC Corp., a San Jose ma...

A veteran Burlingame land use lawyer won a long struggle with disgruntled clients as a state appellate panel reversed a half-m...