Gerald Jessop's long road to the bench began with him working in his family's jewelry store.

A fight over a proposed Wal-Mart distribution center in Merced, which will be considered in a court hearing today, is raising ...

Despite attempts to streamline the process, appellate courts have repeatedly demonstrated that lawyers and trial judges are of...

The 2nd District held that encroachment or continuous use of another person's property is not required to establish an easeme...

The Board of Supervisors must understand, as did the Ethics Commission, that their decision will send a message to perpetrator...

When preparing the state budget, most items are important. Some are absolutely essential, i.e., proper elections and a working...

Any firm model is capable of falling into that Dewey "perversion." That is the stuff of which notorious failure is born, not i...

An attorney at McGuireWoods LLP in Los Angeles is being sued for legal malpractice in Hawaii in connection with a settlement h...

Hoping to placate a federal judge, Menlo Park-based Facebook Inc. offered to pay unhappy users $10 to settle a publicity right...

United States M&A activity rose 11.7 percent in the third quarter of 2012, but is down for the first three quarters of the...

New rules proposed by the International Trade Commission are expected to limit the costs and scope of discovery while giving j...

Riverside County Superior Court has come a long way from having one of the worst trial backlogs in California. However, with c...

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...