More than 30 plaintiffs have filed a lawsuit in San Francisco County Superior Court against two pharmaceutical manufacturing g...

The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office announced Friday it has brought criminal charges against a disbarred attorne...

A jury has awarded $6 million to a plaintiff in an excessive force and malicious prosecution case brought against two Los Ange...

Kroll Advisory Solutions, the corporate investigations and risk consulting firm, has hired a former federal prosecutor and TV ...

In a case that could lead commercial real estate lawyers to take a harder look at lease terms, a state appellate court reverse...

A Los Angeles health care law firm has won a $700 million settlement for its hospital clients, including 200 in California, ma...

A federal judge tentatively tweaked earlier summary judgment findings in an ongoing spat between insurance carriers for Bratz ...

Legalzoom.com Inc. tapped Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP to file confidential papers for a public offering, accordi...

Oracle Corp.'s lawsuit claiming that Google Inc. copied its patents and copyrights in order to use the Java programming langua...

The U.S. attorney's office has picked a rare fight with a sitting federal judge by seeking his recusal from a drug smuggling c...

Whether its "astronaut," "prosecutor" or "business owner," the simple descriptions that candidates choose to identify themselv...

The process allowed manufacturers to completely shed liability for products sold before filing for bankruptcy. By Christine Sp...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP added Catherine Conway as partner in Los Angeles.

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Some partners who have left Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP this year have claimed their updated K-1 tax forms contain allocations of ...

Judge Steven Counelis tells mothers and fathers in his family law court they hold the key to settling.

Tax attorneys in California who advise upper middle-class and wealthy clientele generally are professionals who prize certaint...

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Rebutting the claim that class action lawsuits are the lifeboats of society. By Jeff Scott of Greenberg Traurig ...

Recent decesions provide hope for taxpayers' ability to prevail in U.S. Tax Court. By Bruce Givner and Owen Kaye of Givner &am...

The IRS is increasing its scrutiny of S Corps while new regulations are looming. By Alexander Lee of Paul Hastings ...

For Hollywood's biggest stars, tax and estate planning is a year-round responsibility - one that many of them simply couldn't ...

Six months after taking the reins, new entertainment trade group VP Henry Hoberman has restructured his legal team in Los Ange...

A longstanding federal ban on political ads on public radio and TV stations is an unconstitutional restriction of free speech,...

Palo Alto-based attorneys with Morrison & Foerster LLP, led by partner Eric S. Walters, won a defense victory in a patent ...

Geographic restrictions on property tax exemptions don't make sense as a policy and create needless administrative burdens. By...

By cutting a deal, Amazon and lawmakers left the broader tax law question unresolved and made the already convoluted tax syste...

The mystery over what Apple Inc.'s longtime intellectual property counsel was up to when he left the company last summer is so...

ADR neutral brings more than two decades of experience in negotiating thousands of deals for high-flying entertainment and med...

A Sacramento federal judge on Thursday tossed a lawsuit brought by landfill operators and waste haulers who wanted a Solano Co...