Chapman University School of Law Professor M. Katherine Baird Darmer, a prominent activist for same-sex marriage and against t...

Lawyers who've seen their film finance practices grow in recent months say China's agreement to remove restrictions on foreign...

The acquisition of the Roosevelt Lofts, a 222-unit, mixed-use condominium complex in downtown Los Angeles, required a lot of h...

Costa Concordia passengers will likely face a difficult path to recovery. By J. Denny Haythorn of Whittier Law School ...

A woman who sued Facebook Inc. for violating her privacy, then decided she did not want to be deposed because questions from t...

Lawyers involved in the transaction and concurring 11-year, 70,000-square-foot lease to Pac-12 Enterprises said it was the bli...

Ending speculation about their next move, proponents of the Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban on Tuesday asked the full 9th...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Tuesday they'll take up race-based admissions programs in higher education, just a week after...

Everything Judge George King does - and doesn't do - is aimed at producing the best result.

Court Referee Valerie Skeba tries to break the cycle of violence she's seen overtake children and adults.

California unions spend member dues on a wide array of political causes. Though members can opt out, few do so, partly because...

In a move that's becoming increasingly common for Hollywood studios, DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. announced a new joint ventu...

San Francisco has moved one step closer to having the country's first-ever city funded pro bono civil litigation program with ...

A federal appeals court dealt a blow to public health and environmental groups Friday, ruling that the Obama administration ac...

9th Circuit Judge N. Randy Smith's dissent proposes a sweeping test that would leave Proposition 8 challengers eternally disen...

Solar company Westinghouse Solar is mulling a merger in which it would be absorbed as a new subsidiary of CBD Energy, an Austr...

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised Australia-based Billabong International Ltd. on a deal that will keep the company public a...

A San Francisco judge has ruled that a company that aggregated information so computer users could view all of their social ne...

A $60 million legal malpractice lawsuit waged against Holland & Knight LLP by three real estate investors, claiming the fi...

While not the easiest to negotiate, any buy-sell agreement is better than none. ...

Errant attorneys face far more than an administrative suspension when they fib about MCLE compliance. By Stephen J. Strauss ...

Courts are getting strict about the 60-day filing requirement for anti-SLAPP motions. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris, Polich &...

Sergio Garcia, a partner with Reed Smith LLP in San Francisco, was named the first general counsel of Zeltiq Aesthetics Inc. ...

Online material may be hosted anywhere in the world, making it difficult to determine who is responsible for what. By Michael ...

As details of the wind-down process for the state's roughly 400 redevelopment agencies begin to take shape, experts say one th...

The federal Environmental Protection Agency announced last week it had reached a $10 million settlement with a Northern Califo...

A state court judge's decision to give lawyers nearly half a year to try the first lawsuit in the Toyota sudden unintended acc...

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on Wednesday on whether a federal law used to convict a Pomona politician for ...

A reader responds to "Entering the legal twilight zone: a lesson in trust law." ...

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.