At the Spring Street federal courthouse in Los Angeles, the U.S. District Court for the Central District last month celebrated...

Bruce L. Blumberg, a sole practitioner known for his fierce advocacy in juvenile dependency matters in San Francisco County Su...

As a successful plaintiffs' lawyer handling medical malpractice and personal innjury cases, Joseph E. Thielen had almost alway...

Lawyers for Catholic priests lost their latest attempt to keep church documents out of the public eye when the state Supreme C...

A group of former partners from the defunct firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP on Thursday appealed the $71.5 million bankruptcy set...

In what is being touted as a milestone victory, a group of music publishers won $6.6 million in damages - plus attorney fees -...

U.S. District Judge Susan Y. Illston on Friday granted preliminary approval of a settlement in a long-running case alleging th...

Sequenom Inc., a San Diego-based life sciences company that provides genetic analysis solutions, has appointed a new chief leg...

The former top litigator at the world's biggest music label, Universal Music Group, has joined law firm Steptoe & Johnson ...

The Bar Association of San Francisco's Volunteer Legal Services Program (VLSP) and the Northern District Court of California c...

When Another Planet Entertainment LLC wants to put on a multiday music festival, it often turns to San Francisco-based law fir...

The U.S. Supreme Court's Wal-Mart and Concepcion decisions last year were read by many legal observers as big setbacks for pla...

In a reversal of fortune in the smartphone patent wars, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Thursday persuaded a federal appellate...

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

Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is often critical of what he sees as excessive judicial spending, blasted a fed...

Vice President and General Counsel for Craig Realty Group Newport Beach ...

What started out as a nightmare for the insurance industry turned into an opinion that insurers will now be often citing. By P...

A 2nd District Court of Appeal decision may have changed California personal injury toxic tort case pleading and motion practi...

Ronald Smith's recent accusation that the fault for delays in carrying out death sentences falls on the elected district attor...

Governance methods, operating procedures and protocol that worked when firms had 20, 50, even 70 partners, became increasingly...

A federal judge apparently has agreed to break the seal protecting a lawyer's criminal conviction in order for the State Bar t...

Third quarter venture capital funding in the United States fell 17 percent, yet saw an increase of 23 percent in the number of...

Rite Aid agreed to pay $800,000 in penalties, restitution and investigative costs to deflect charges of false advertising and ...

Non-practicing holding companies, colloquially known "patent trolls," account for a sizable portion of infringement lawsuits f...

Seven Bank's purchase of Los Angeles-based Financial Consulting & Trading International is the latest in a growing trend o...

Federal appellate judges called into question the stunning $269 million in damages a jury ordered The Walt Disney Co. to pay t...

An Alameda County judge appears likely to include plaintiffs' age discrimination claims in one of the state's largest consolid...

Despite a landmark settlement with four hundred lawyers, the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate is still facing a lengthy string o...

Law firms that prevail in lawsuits filed against them cannot recover attorney fees from the opposing party if the firm was re...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP helped real estate investment trust Kilroy Realty Corp. acquire Columbia Sq...