If an intended decision stands, employees of a truck driving company operating in the Port of Oakland will have won a class ac...

A fictional fugitive helped set Lorenzo Balderrama on the path to being a lawyer and a judge.

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

The state Supreme Court has long granted review in a limited number of cases it calls "rescue missions." They present no issue...

General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer for Tennenbaum Capital Partners LLC Santa Monica ...

The Internet Association is dedicated to protecting a free and innovative Internet and to ensuring "the Internet will always h...

On Nov. 6, California voters will decide the fate of Proposition 37, the Genetically Engineered Foods Labeling Initiative. By ...

The government is pursuing two trade actions against China that have implications on its ownership in the GM. By Nancy Noonan ...

The Los Angeles district attorney's office did not ignore the cry for freedom from a condemned inmate; as a result, convicted ...

As new president of the Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles, Ruth D. Kahn wants to help women advance in the legal indust...

Jones Day bankruptcy specialist Bruce Bennett is going back to work for what’s left of his former employer, Dewey & LeBoeu...

After being recommended for disbarment in February and appealing the decision, a Rancho Cucamonga attorney's punishment was up...

Virginia-based firm LeClairRyan added five attorneys to its Los Angeles office in an effort to bolster its intellectual proper...

Jacoby & Meyers LLC has agreed to a deal with USLegal Forms Inc. enabling the firm to offer a catalogue of 86,000 attorne...

The nation's unemployment rate dropped to its lowest point in more than three years, but legal sector employment numbers have ...

The new law corrects an inadvertent, but often extreme, increase in jury fees. By Brian S. Kabateck and Dominique Nasr of Kaba...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear a case challenging the Federal Communications Commission's so-called "shot clo...

A well-funded arm of the state Judicial Council is picking up the tab for outside counsel to defend judges, as it does for all...

A hefty boost to federal judges' paychecks could be in the works thanks to an en banc ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for ...

Judge Victor Stull credits his mother for the candor and directness that have guided his career.

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP added Amar Thakur as partner in Los Angeles. Thakur focuses on intellectual property...

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Judge Amalia L. Meza relaxes her rules for jurors, including letting them chomp on candy bars.

Superior Court Judge Imperial County (El Centro) ...

Frequently at odds, the Alliance of California Judges and state judicial branch leadership are now fighting over access to pub...

The scramble is on to take advantage of the gift tax exclusion before it is reduced on Jan. 1. On that same date the estate an...

The immigration system is a failed one, "Show Trials" author Peter Afrasiabi declares, one that has fallen short of guarantees...

The state high court abrogated the "release rule" and clarified hospital liability in medical malpractice cases, but it did no...

If anyone would like a reminder of why we need a federal right of publicity law in this country, let me offer up the new Maril...

It shouldn't come as a shock that law firms active in the lateral hiring market want to distinguish themselves from Dewey. By ...