A former law clerk at Brayton Purcell LLP is suing the firm for failing to pay him overtime. The outcome of the case could set...

Reed Smith LLP swung open its doors this month to two entertainment partners from the West Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelp...

Bradley J. Butwin, the New York-based head of litigation at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, was named Wednesday to lead the firm. ...

When magistrate judges recommended habeas relief in three separate cases of prison inmates they believed deserved release or a...

Each of the state's 55 bar investigators will have to boost by 50 percent the number of cases closed or moved on to prosecutor...

Commissioner Kirtland Mahlum lets lawyers know how he plans to rule so they can maneuver.

A hotel company secured an $11 million loan for two Carlsbad hotels. The properties include the 41-room Beach View Lodge and t...

While most segments of real estate are still sagging in the sour market, lawyers say one area is jumping by leaps and bounds a...

Insurers fail to acknowledge that a false marking claim is a form of false advertising that triggers coverage. By David A. Gau...

Thousands of employees of financial institutions with low-level misdemeanors will soon be terminated or placed on unpaid leave...

Restrictions increase in light of the looming dissolution of redevelopment agencies. By Amy E. Freilich and William F. Delvac ...

Tony Toranto recently helped client NRG Energy Inc. iron out a series of complex legal issues to help push forward one of the ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision ATT v. Concepcion, a federal judge in Santa Ana has sent to arbitration a class...

Tim Tosta had to think creatively to get a $350 million state-of-the-art commercial campus off the ground in low growth Menlo ...

Chinese reverse mergers made up nearly a quarter of all securities class action cases filed in the first half of the year, acc...

Timothy Alger, one of Google Inc.'s deputy general counsels, is stepping away from in-house work to take a job as partner in P...

Edward "Doc" Merrill guided State Street Bank in negotiating a highly complex restructuring of hundreds of millions of dollars...

With San Francisco County Superior Court poised to close most of its civil courtrooms due to budget cuts, complex litigation J...

Howrey can reject its Washington, D.C. lease, but still might be on the hook for millions of dollars in rent payments. ...

Federal agents in Sacramento have busted an elaborate immigration fraud scheme involving fake marriages between American citiz...

In November, Pamela Duffy closed a highly complex public-private partnership agreement with the Port of San Francisco allowing...

Robert "Bob" Thompson recently negotiated an innovative public-private partnership arrangement to get a $250 million housing a...

Attorneys for indicted Judge Harvey A. Silberman turned up their attacks Tuesday on his former campaign comsultant who has aid...

Depending on which analysis is used, special use properties can be significantly undervalued or overvalued. By Brad M. Cashion...

An unlicensed real estate agent pleaded guilty Monday in Los Angeles federal court to bribery charges for offering to pay thou...

Know the telltale symptoms that identify which cases are ripe for receiverships. By Gordon L. Gerson of Gerson Law Firm APC ...

A jury has ordered L.A. Unified School District to pay a 14-year-old more than $1 million after school officials sent him on a...

California municipalities are on edge as the Federal Communications Commission considers measures to speed up the deployment o...

UC Berkeley law professor Goodwin Liu failed to win Senate approval for a seat on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But i...

Judge Valerie Salkin was young when confronted with the criminal acts she now sees every day.