The court's conclusion regarding the prevailing party's right to recover fees under state law is very straightforward. By Gera...

We cannot tolerate further carnage of the type experienced by the victims of the Columbine, Virginia Tech and Newton shootings...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel tossed out a San Francisco judge's decision Wednesday that Wells Fargo & Co. pay...

In light of input from a federal agency in 2012 and a new state law that takes effect in January, employers writing new polici...

Despite two major partner shakeups in its Los Angeles office in recent years, Hogan Lovells - the product of a 2010 merger - s...

The Eastern District of California, overwhelmed by litigation and habeas petitions from prisoners without extra judges to hand...

Toyota Motor Corp. announced Wednesday it had agreed to pay between $1.2 billion and $1.4 billion to end class action litigati...

Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...

Dickstein Shapiro LLP advised Poseidon Resources in closing the company's $922 million financing for its proposed Poseidon Car...

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP helped international real estate company Kennedy Wilson Inc. purchase the Ritz Carlton Lake ...

As U.S. law firms increasingly become global businesses, current leaders face the challenge of ensuring that lawyers in differ...

If the sudden 2008 credit crunch can be likened to an earthquake, then the following flood of mechanics lien and stop payment ...

Warner Brothers, New Line, and its affiliates recently achieved a rare courtroom victory by obtaining an order restraining dis...

Family members of a slain Victorville woman broke into tears as a San Bernardino County jury returned a guilty verdict Friday ...

Four months into her new job as dean of Stanford Law School, Mary Elizabeth "Liz" Magill is gathering information from top uni...

A saturated legal market and sagging economy are forcing many law school graduates to pursue what was once considered an impos...

Students Matter, a non-profit education reform group, is suing the state and several school districts over allegations that st...

After provoking an online outcry with changes to its terms of use, Instagram Inc. finds itself in the crosshairs of a class ac...

The California Judges Association is pushing four proposed changes to the procedures used to investigate alleged judicial misc...

Structural changes to the criminal justice system have not happened quickly, but the last 20 years have seen dramatic changes ...

UC Irvine School of Law's inaugural class scored a 90 percent pass rate on the July bar exam, second only to Stanford's 94 per...

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

Off the bench, Judge Stephen S. Trott has channeled Lincoln, performed with Johnny Cash

The next decade will hold many changes for law firms - an increased demand for associates who have carved out a niche, a decre...

The holidays are upon us. Given that everything seems to be protected by intellectual property rights, maybe someone should pr...

Has our high court, in adopting Daubert-ese, pointed the way for greater rigor in the scrutiny of suspect expert testim...

The courts took on a slew of environmental disputes this past year and many of the cases hit on what is arguably the single-bi...

A San Jose federal grand jury indicted three men Friday for running a $60 million fraud scheme that deceived investors into th...

The rulings came in a raft of decisions, all finished before Republican-appointed board member Brian Hayes retired in mid-Dece...

At the new Employment Rights Clinic, six students from the Loyola Law School took on an unusual role this semester while helpi...