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.

Executive vice president, general counsel and secretary for Ascent Capital Group, Inc. (Denver, CO) ...

Plain-talking Judge Hugh Walker is open about his tough sentences and sexual-orientation.

A statewide committee is refusing to change a criminal jury instruction that a federal judge criticized last year as being unc...

One night in baseball history - a dramatic tale akin to the best legal drama. By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...

California will produce almost twice as many attorneys as the labor market will be able to absorb over the next four years. By...

The Obama administration cozies up to alleged torturers in the name of "foreign relations." By Roger Clark of The Clark Law Gr...

Although contrary to human instinct, being civil can lead to better results and less monetary and emotional costs. By Richard ...

Older couples ending their lengthy marriages face a complex and unique set of issues. By Marlo Van Oorschot of Law Offices of ...

While Superior Courts around the state are closing courtrooms and eliminating key services, Orange County's court is not. It p...

A Corona del Mar cancer doctor was sentenced Monday to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1 million in ...

California's general-obligation bond drought may soon come to an end, as the possibility of short-term notes appears on the ho...

Two video game trade associations that convinced the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn California's ban on violent video games wa...

State Administrative Office of the Courts Deputy Director Ronald G. Overholt will move into the agency's top spot when Directo...

GSI Technology Inc. announced Monday it has sued Cypress Semiconductor Corp. in the Northern District, alleging it conspired t...