Bratz manufacturer MGA Entertainment Inc. has hired Los Angeles litigator Thomas J. Nolan of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher &a...

As state legislators scrambled to meet Wednesday's budget deadline, they resurrected a controversial plan to sell 11 state off...

Barely 10 months after taking over as the State Bar's top discipline prosecutor, James E. Towery announced his resignation Wed...

Riverside County's Board of Supervisors approved an unusual ordinance banning unauthorized solicitation on county property - a...

Internet news site CNN.com has been sued for alleged discrimination over its lack of captioning for the hearing impaired. ...

A student at the University of La Verne College of Law lost her bid Wednesday to prevent the school from suspending her for ch...

Pandora Media Inc. started trading on the New York Stock Exchange Wednesday, raising $235 million in an initial public offerin...

The record industry and Apple appear to have reached a compromise of sorts in the decade-long battle to curtail illegal copyin...

July of 2008 was an awkward time for Lowenstein Sandler PC to open a new office far from its New York City roots. But that off...

In what some experts believe indicates a long-term trend, securities class actions alleging disclosure violations in merger an...

A suit recently filed by the San Francisco City Attorney's Office against two medical insurers is just the latest in a tug-of-...

A state judge has reluctantly gutted a $19 million punitive damages award for a paraplegic military veteran who sued his insur...

Without children's lawyers, the court is often flying blind. By Amy M. Pellman, Robert N. Jacobs, and Dara K. Reiner ...

A new frontier is set to open in the battle between trademark owners and cybersquatters. By Steven B. Fabrizio and Gianni P. S...

Microsoft makes a $290 million mistake in a patent invalidity claim. By Glenn Trost of Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz ...

Two memory chip manufacturers lost a bid, at least for now, to get a San Francisco judge to tell jurors in a major antitrust l...

A woman who suffered internal burns after a Lake Tahoe casino worker mistakenly gave her a bottle of acid to drink, will recei...

UC Irvine School of Law is right on schedule to become a fully fledged law school in the eyes of the American Bar Association....

Los Angeles is investigating whether five major banks allowed hundreds of foreclosed properties to fall into slum conditions, ...

Gay and lesbian judges are not barred from hearing cases involving discrimination based on sexual orientation, Northern Distri...

San Mateo-based SolarCity Inc. used an in-house team of lawyers, with a little help from Chadborne & Parke, for its $280 m...

The 2nd District's definition of "commission" may take employers and lawyers by surprise. By D. Gregory Valenza of Shaw Valenz...

In a devastating blow to a Nevada company that has filed hundreds ot lawsuits claiming copyright infringement of two major new...

Trial courts may experience a $150 million cut to their budget under language being hashed out in budget negotiations. The cut...

Lawyers specializing in the California Environmental Quality Act could see drastic changes in their practice if amendments sou...

Ruling the federal Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional, 20 U.S. bankruptcy judges signed an opinion Monday allowing a leg...

The Justice Department is collaborating with the California attorney general's office and the San Mateo County district attorn...

The tort of insurance bad faith is alive and well in California. By Joseph E. Foss of Luce Forward Hamilton & Scripps LLP ...

A recent hospital stay makes difficulties in communications strikingly apparent. By Richard M. Mosk of the California Court of...