The firm is one of a growing number beginning to thrust associates into bigger leadership roles to give them more responsibili...

Tax lawyers and accountants like to plan efficiently and to save clients money. But the tax treatment of casualty losses invol...

The DOJ is working on investigations of foreign banks which are not yet public and when it becomes public it may be too late. ...

If anyone reading this is thinking of entering the field: You cannot say you haven't been warned. By Robert M. Smith ...

The thorniest question often facing those drafting Environmental Impact Reports is how much detail the EIR must include. By Ma...

Internet company LegalZoom.com Inc. filed a federal suit Tuesday against competitor Rocket Lawyer Inc. alleging false and misl...

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

Over a four-year period, U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real in Los Angeles made three rulings that benefited companies in whic...

The writer who accused ABC of stealing his ideas to create the hit castaway drama "Lost" will press on with his claims in Cali...

A federal court and the State Bar Court took aim last week at lawyer Chance Edward Gordon for allegedly cheating homeowners na...

MIPS Technologies Inc. announced Tuesday it has received an unsolicited bid from CEVA Inc. to buy the company after it recentl...

The state Air Resources Board dealt Los Angeles officials a setback in a fight over dust control in the far flung Owens Valley...

Presiding Justice Barbara J. R. Jones and two associate justices appeared ready Tuesday to side with four retirees of the Lawr...

In their closing arguments Tuesday, defense attorneys for Kmart Corp. argued that requiring seats for cashiers is bad for busi...

A telephone technician at the center of the Anthony Pellicano wiretap scandal was wrongly convicted of perjury after a Los Ang...

Gov. Jerry Brown nominated two men for seats on the California Courts of Appeal on Wednesday, including one of his close advis...

As public entities try to lower their unfunded liabilities, retirees are fighting for what they see as deferred payment for th...

A creative transactional lawyer can seek to structure a transaction in a manner that keeps liabilities and insurance interconn...

The ruling impacts how single lender piggyback loans that are intended to be sold should be structured. By Anita F. Sabine of ...

Many privately owned public utilities were hoping the state Supreme Court would grant review and hold that inverse condemnatio...

Articulating standards of review and explaining how to comply in briefs are not the same thing -- as one discovers appealing a...

Because of a recent NLRB decision, non-union employers who have a policy that prohibits employees from discussing ongoing inte...

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Associates represented athletic shoe and clothing retailer Nike Inc. in the...

A federal judge approved a settlement that slaps Google Inc. with a $22.5 million civil penalty, the largest ever imposed by t...

The State Bar Court ordered Chance Edward Gordon of Los Angeles put on involuntary inactive status, and a judge imposed an inj...

Former San Bernardino County Assessor Bill Postmus agreed to a $300,000 settlement with the county, ending lengthy court actio...

Law schools are facing a crucial period of change as they account for the low number of legal jobs available in the market and...

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. hopes to find new ammunition for its court battle against Apple Inc. in the licensing deal the Cu...

The U.S. International Trade Commission announced Monday it would review an administrative law judge's ruling in September tha...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation and ACLU argue the statute, which also boosts sentences for human trafficking crimes, would...