A three-year legal battle over oil drilling in an urban area of Los Angeles County reached a resolution this week when the co...

Engineering firm Parsons Corp. sold its corporate headquarters in Pasadena to a joint venture between Morgan Stanley Real Esta...

After years targeting businesses over physical barriers, disability rights lawyers are focusing more and more attention on the...

Law firms jockey for who has the best Supreme Court practice, but rarely do you hear discussion on the business side of this n...

Five tips on how to get your point across to the judge. By Blair Schlecter of Hurrell Cantrall ...

This is the first ruling on the law's constitutionality since the U.S. attorney general announced that the Obama administratio...

The Obama administration last week attacked the federal Defense of Marriage Act's constitutionality and argued that a 9th U.S....

Federal authorities will review later this month whether the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority is in complianc...

A cost-saving measure for in-house counsel engaged in commercial litigation. By Gilda R. Turitz of Sideman & Bancroft LLP,...

Large swathes of ocean off the West Coast are expected to be designated protected areas for endangered leatherback sea turtles...

Alameda County has agreed to accommodate Spanish- and Chinese-speaking voters in a deal to settle a lawsuit alleging civil rig...

The internet domain name manager Go Daddy Group Inc. turned to Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC for its recent sale to ...

Environmental groups pushing the federal government to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions from airplanes, marine vessels an...

Although an Ecuadorean judge ruled in February that Chevron Corp. should pay $18 billion for alleged environmental harm to the...

A federal judge has certified a class action against the Angels baseball team and the city of Anaheim for having too few wheel...

New laws passed last week to curtail redevelopment agencies could lead to not one suit but a slew of offshoot litigation by de...

A California State Bar panel is weighing whether to deny an undocumented immigrant admission to the bar solely on the grounds ...

Reaching ever higher has taken JoAnn Johnson from grocery store box girl to Superior Court Commissioner.

With the death of the traditional library in the Internet age - and the interaction that went along with it - law firms are re...

Senior Vice President , General Counsel and Secretary for Intuit Inc. ...

The legality of Google's sale of search terms is questioned. By Nick Solish of Bryan Cave ...

Discerning the difference between an "order" that is not appealable and a judgment that is appealable is not always an easy ta...

Health insurers have too long ignored California's longstanding medical necessity standard. By William M. Shernoff and Samuel ...

The first major overhaul of the U.S. patent system in over 50 years is on the horizon. By Andrei Iancu and Maclain Wells of Ir...

Highly-charged battle over the car company's name speeds off the racetrack and into the courtroom. By Jonathan Michaels of Mic...

The successful $4.5 billion bid by a consortium led by Apple Inc. and Microsoft Corp. for a portfolio of 6,000 patents and ap...

Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP advised education software company Blackboard Inc. in its $1.64 billion all-cash acquisition by Rhode ...

Judge Martha E. Bellinger, supervising judge of Los Angeles County's East District juvenile courts, retired Friday after 20 ye...

The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals struck down Friday a Michigan ban on affirmative action in college admissions, putting i...

U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Fogel, a respected mainstay of the South Bay judiciary for three decades, is leaving San Jose th...