In 2004, Mae, a widow, executed a valid will, intentionally leaving out her daughter, Dot, and giving 50 per cent of her estat...

Peter responded to an advertisement placed by Della, a dentist, seeking a dental hygienist. ...

Vicky was killed on a rainy night. The prosecution charged Dean, a business rival, with her murder. It alleged that, on the ni...

A year ago, Wendy told Hal that she would not tolerate his drinking any longer. She insisted that he move out of the family ho...

Pam and Patrick are residents of State A. While visiting State B, they were hit by a truck owned and operated by Corporation, ...

It was the end of August and the beginning of the school year for new USC Gould School of Law students. Orientation week and c...

A wise person once said that the definition of insanity is "doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different r...

The recession put extreme pressure on the legal marketplace, not only decreasing employment opportunities with traditional law...

Those who write and grade California Bar Exam recognize it is a "high-stakes, professional licensing exam," so they try to mak...

While a win for employees, 24 Hour Fitness does not mean employers should not still consider class action waivers in th...

A recent decision is likely to bolster the prospects of increased third-party litigation funding. By Kenneth A. Linzer and Eli...

Michelle Lee, the former head of patent strategy at Google Inc. who stepped down earlier this year, will head the new satellit...

The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund held its annual awards gala on Nov. 8 at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel ...

Sixteen-lawyer Feinberg, Mindel, Brandt & Klein LLP started as a civil trial firm and has evolved to devote 80 percent of ...

Reporting on a detailed audit of lawyers' compliance with continuing education rules, a bar staffer told a committee of the ba...

Reed Smith LLP represented publicly traded utilities company American Water Works Co. Inc. in its agreement for a $1 billion r...

Consumer Attorneys of California held its 51st Annual Convention on Nov. 8-11 at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. The weeken...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association and the Center for Civic Mediation hosted the 7th Annual Robert I. Weil Lecture, "The N...

The 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a 2006 Michigan ballot initiative, Proposal 2, which bans affirmative action in u...

A 2010 California law targeting paparazzi who drive recklessly failed in its first test in court Wednesday. ...

Dublin-based Santa Rita Jail is the target of a lawsuit filed Thursday in Alameda County Superior Court alleging the jail disc...

A nonprofit biomedical research sought to have a $58 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. reinstated Thursday in oral arguments...

A federal judge considered a revised proposed class action settlement to resolve a privacy lawsuit against Facebook Inc. on Th...

A peacemaker at heart, Craig S. Meredith disliked his job as a business litigator so much he left the law to become a teacher....

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that environmentalists cannot seek damages after the government temporarily allowed ...

Rejecting defense arguments that the law was murky, a San Francisco jury found three men guilty Thursday on all counts of cons...

Wednesday's revelation that the Los Angeles County Superior Court would impose massive budget cuts looked, at first, like an e...

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

First, we have the so-called fiscal cliff, comprised of an incredibly long list of expiring tax breaks (including the Bush Era...