Plaintiffs' and defense lawyers are waiting to see if Gov. Jerry Brown will sign a bill limiting depositions to seven hours in...

The cases that wind up before the state Supreme Court have the power to divide. Yet that divisiveness can all but disappear wh...

The speed with which many large law firm failures appear to take place has been noted in several recent large law firm collaps...

Stradling Yocca, which made its name as a mid-market powerhouse in Orange County, opened an office in Santa Monica in November...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP represented Boston Properties, a self-managed and self-administered real es...

One of the less glamorous but crucial tasks for bankrupt law firms is passing off or storing client documents, which can be ex...

Displaying the southern charm you might expect, Jack Daniels' lawyers accomplished their duty without resorting to a nasty cor...

To which Framer do we look in support of how to interpret the Constitution? By James DeRoche of Perkins Coie LLP ...

The notion that wily homeowners will bring lawsuits to bully the banks into modifying their loans is without any basis in the ...

A group calling itself the Play Fair for Farmers Field Coalition and four citizens have filed a complaint challenging the cons...

A controversial bill that would have increased medical damages payouts in personal injury lawsuits died in the final legislati...

An arbitrator has awarded $2.4 million to a former high school football player who broke his neck four years ago during a tryo...

Morrison & Foerster LLP represented Gruppo Campari SpA, an Italian drink maker, in its $414.8 million acquisition of Lasce...

A Newport Beach lawyer is being held in the Orange County Jail on charges he embezzled more than $720,000 from two elderly sis...

A recent study found that "vehicles fueled with compressed natural gas - not electric batteries - will emerge as the biggest c...

Attorneys for Apple Inc. on Tuesday persuaded a federal appeals court panel to uphold a decision by a Texas federal judge who ...

Entertainment lawyer and branding expert Jordan Yospe has moved to Beverly Hills-based Eisner, Kahan & Gorry from Manatt, ...

San Bernardino County Superior Court has a new presiding judge after Ronald M. Christianson stepped down over the weekend foll...

A new tax practice group targeting Silicon Valley and the Bay Area has launched at the Palo Alto offices of Skadden, Arps, Sla...

Judge Kenneth Freeman aims to give cases individual attention and appreciates lawyers who give their all to theirs.

The state Judicial Council voted Friday to accept a plan to implement reforms recommended in a critical report. ...

Los Angeles routinely appears on ATRA's list of the top 10 "judicial hell holes" in the nation, so we knew selecting the jury ...

The practice auction provided a dress rehearsal to test the auction platform in preparation for the first real auction, which ...

HBOR's arsenal of weapons could stop fraudulent home foreclosures in their tracks. Mark Didak ...

A lawyer challenging the Central District's jury selection process has sharpened his attack, filing a motion last week in Los ...

Nonprofit law firm Equal Rights Advocates will launch a free immigrant women-focused legal clinic, "Clinica La Voz," on Wednes...

A former National Football League player is suing for nearly $6 million in damages from a San Diego-based investment company, ...

Charles D. Siegal, who never let his disability get in the way, has died at the age of 66. ...

A New York federal judge has rejected a motion by Facebook Inc.'s attorneys to remove a patent infringement case against the s...

Companies can be liable for inducing patent infringement even when several different parties perform the steps involved, a fed...