Loeb & Loeb's Daniel O. Offner will leave the firm to head Flying Kame Inc., his own Century City-based business developme...

Two secretaries who were recently let go by Paul Hastings LLP have filed separate discrimination lawsuits in Los Angeles Super...

Valensi Rose's 16 lawyers, who handle business, tax, real estate, entertainment and other issues, credit the firm's longevity ...

Jim Bower, executive director of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley, has announced plans to retire by the end of the fiscal ...

In a win for Apple Inc., an International Trade Commission judge ruled Wednesday that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. infringed f...

Owners of wrongfully injured pets can recover more in damages than the market value of the animals, an appellate court ruled T...

Riverside County Superior Court Judge Sharon J. Waters sided with the sellers of an Inland Empire Nissan dealership last week,...

The U.S. Department of Justice has launched an antitrust investigation into Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd.'s use of standard ess...

A longtime San Mateo County lawyer should be disbarred for misappropriating money from settlements she had won for her son, a ...

With a swelling jail population and few financial options to add more beds, Los Angeles is joining the ranks of California cou...

A Santa Clara County prosecutor told a State Bar judge Wednesday he did not know about a video of a sexual assault victim's me...

While California can benefit from improving its business climate by focusing on strengths, chasing Texas and other magnet sta...

Long Beach-based HCP Inc. has entered into an agreement to acquire 133 housing communities for $1.73 billion from a joint vent...

After a series of conflicting 9th Circuit decisions, one certainly could excuse the plaintiffs' and civil defense bars for fee...

Here we offer a thousand words of pragmatic advice (in English) for non-insurance litigators. By Marc Maister, Michael Fehner,...

If an insurer decides to decline a claim yet stay involved to monitor proceedings, the burden of proving an absence of coverag...

Although much attention is now focused on new products specifically designed to cover cyber-risks, companies ought to consult ...

Insurers often claim their obligations under an excess policy do not arise until the underlying policy has been exhausted, whi...

A fully-briefed case that could open the doors to lawsuits against insurers under California's Unfair Competition Law has been...

An insurance policy clause known as the "entertainment industry exclusion" is causing some musicians and other showbiz types t...

Litigation experience, entertainment industry know-how, and a strong client list all made for a perfect recipe when three like...

The concentration of women equity partners at America's largest law firms has remained essentially unchanged for the past seve...

Cooley LLP is representing NextWave Pharmaceuticals in its sale to pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc. for $680 million. ...

After months of contentious negotiations, Contra Costa County deputy district attorneys Tuesday settled their labor dispute wi...

Lewis Brisbois Bisgaard & Smith LLP has hired a new partner in the firm's land use and environmental practice group in a m...

An Apple Inc. patent that a jury concluded was infringed by Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. this summer has been declared invalid...

Del Norte County's district attorney on Tuesday accused State Bar prosecutors of pursuing a vendetta to have him disbarred wit...

Senior Circuit Judge Betty Binns Fletcher, a liberal lioness at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, died Monday night at a ...

As Californians consider a ballot measure to require labeling of genetically modified food, a federal appeals court will consi...

U.S. District Judge and Director, Federal Judicial Center, San Jose and Washington D.C. ...