By a vote of 33-2, on May 29, in a rare display of bipartisan unity, the state Senate passed legislation that would legalize s...

It is a record that nobody wants to hold: this month GlaxoSmithKline became the latest entrant into the "billion dollar" fine ...

How viable are federal securities fraud class actions predicated on government investigations and whistleblower lawsuits? By J...

University of Virginia School of Law assistant dean Mary Elizabeth Magill will take over for Larry Kramer this fall. ...

Managing partner of Polsinelli Shughart PC's Los Angeles office, Lisa Greer Quateman, and other attorneys discuss the transiti...

Malibu-based JAKKS Pacific Inc., America's third largest publicly traded toy company, has hired a new general counsel, sources...

Apple Inc. claims Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. owes it more than $2.5 billion in damages over claims the South Korea-based com...

A Tarzana attorney and animal rights activist has scored a partial victory in his quest to secure better living conditions f...

A long-running class action against Ticketmaster alleging it overcharged consumers is the target of about 100 class members wh...

The firm's choice of tech-heavy Santa Monica for its Los Angeles office is consistent with its previous office openings. ...

In six cases last term, the U.S. Supreme Court considered shielding government authorities from liability for allegedly violat...

TPPA will internationalize some of the worst aspects of U.S. IP legislation. By K.J. Greene of Thomas Jefferson School of Law ...

Jurist's 'forced feeding' opinion put spotlight on right-to-die and quality of life issues. ...

Courts of Appeal are split as to whether an order approving a good faith settlement is an appealable final order when there ar...

In the past, the Court of Appeal seemed loathe to label an appeal frivolous. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris Polich & Purdy LL...

Hundreds of judges, commissioners and interested parties across the state have submitted comments overwhelmingly in support of...

Eastman Kodak Co. vowed to appeal a U.S. International Trade Commission declaring one of the key patents in its arsenal invali...

Pillsbury partner Jorge A. del Calvo led the Nicira Inc. deal team in the Palo Alto-based company's $1.05 billion sale to VMWa...

A San Francisco lawyer who protested he was too broke to cough up $350,000 in sanctions for misconduct in a civil rights case ...

Angry graduates suing their law schools over allegedly dubious employment data have now been thrown out of courts in Michigan ...

California lawyers grabbed a share of the legal work generated Monday by the sale of Emeryville-based Peet's Coffee & Tea ...

Cooley LLP announced today the opening of an office in Santa Monica, its first Los Angeles office and fifth in California. ...

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

Patrick M. Kelly , who will become State Bar president in October, wants to expand on the bar's efforts to ensure lawyers are ...

Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Money Mailer LLC Garden Grove ...

The ACLU claims that the policies of the LA district attorney's office violate the constitutional rights of defendants. By Don...

Clearly, the current system has not helped avoid frivolous lawsuits and the system needs to adapt in the tumultuous economic c...

Ever wonder what a 'deal toy' was? That's a gift handed out to deal participants after the closing. Read that definition and m...

A female partner at a Silicon Valley venture capital firm notched another win in a sex discrimination case against her company...