With an uncertain M&A environment and rising competition for buyers, sellers cannot afford to make mistakes. By James C. C...
Kaye Scholer LLP has nabbed corporate lawyer Charles J. Kao from the San Francisco office of Sedgwick LLP. ...
At 9 a.m. today, the state's highest court will hear opening arguments in a closely watched case to determine the future of Ca...
A global logistics firm with annual revenues of $8.4 billion is being investigated by the National Labor Relations Board after...
A civil grand jury took the unusual step of aggressively refuting allegations of members of the San Bernardino International A...
Intellectual Property
Durie Tangri successfully defends patent win at Federal Circuit
By Craig Anderson
Mark A. Lemley successfully defended a Central District of California judge's ruling in favor of West Interactive Corp. ...
Controversial San Bernardino City Attorney James F. "Jim" Penman held onto his seat after a highly charged election Tuesday, b...
Six partners are decamping the Los Angeles office of Washington D.C.-based Hogan Lovells US LLP and taking their commercial en...
Westcore Properties, a San Diego-based commercial real estate investment firm, announced the appointment of Romy Selati Loseke...
U.S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court seems unlikely to uphold downer livestock law
By Robert Iafolla
A California law that criminalizes making food out of livestock that's too sick or tired to walk appeared unlikely to survive ...
San Francisco voters overwhelmingly passed a pension reform measure in Tuesday's municipal election, ushering in a series of r...
A bicyclist is suing former San Francisco District Attorney Terence Hallinan, accusing him of hitting him with his car, then l...
U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit
9th Circuit gives OK to Argentines' suit against Daimler
By John Roemer
For the second time in two weeks, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that foreign plaintiffs have standing to sue...
Los Angeles County Counsel Andrea S. Ordin will resign next year, the Board of Supervisors announced Tuesday. She is the first...
San Francisco County Superior Court will end its involvement in Probation Alternatives Court, one in a string of programs to f...
A California attorney will steer the largest municipal bankruptcy in U.S. history. ...
A San Francisco federal judge on Tuesday dismissed a consolidated shareholder lawsuit against Oracle Corp. ...
Oregon has sued San Francisco-based pharmaceutical giant McKesson Corp. alleging it conspired to inflate prescription drug pri...
The massive settlement in a long-running insurance class action was approved Wednesday, but the judge overseeing the case tent...
The Central District especially is experiencing a boom in Chapter 11 bankruptcies, even as these so-called corporate bankruptc...
California Supreme Court
Justices leans toward defendants in asbestos case
By Laura Ernden
The state Supreme Court on Wednesday seemed ready to end asbestos plaintiffs' efforts to sue manufacturers of parts used in U....
A 114-unit Oceanside apartment complex scored a nearly $15 million refinancing.
The Bay Area's Big Law graveyard is littered with firm bankruptcies. But lawyers from the dissolved firms have sought new lif...
Family
Frank and Jamie McCourt: a cautionary tale of divorce gone wrong
By Sharon Liangn
How the McCourts ended up with far, far less than what they had at the beginning of their divorce process. By Jeffery S. Jacob...
Getting in trouble for filing a false police report isn't as clear-cut as it may seem. By Matt Brinton of Southwestern Law Sch...
A look at which portions of health care reform may be here to stay. By Craig B. Garner of Garner Health ...
A reality star and a cartoon ape go bananas in court. By Megan Rivetti of Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman & Machtinger LLP...
A tentative settlement between MGA Entertainment Inc. and O’Melveny & Myers LLP involving the law firm’s claims that the B...
A few years ago when the U.S. economy reached record lows, many attorneys thought it wise to stay put at their firms instead o...
Chinese company CECEP, a state-owned solar panel manufacturer, has reportedly frozen $500 million in solar installations in th...