Perkins Coie LLP grew its year-old San Diego office with the addition of a three-attorney, emerging-companies team from McDerm...

High net-worth individuals who place cash and property into special trusts under their wives' or children's names may find tho...

Facing potentially enormous liability, AT&T is asking a state court judge to dramatically limit or block wiretapping victi...

A longtime Orange County general practitioner is accused of bribing a police officer as part of a conspiracy to mislead prosec...

In an effort to relieve the pressure from one of the busiest dockets, Los Angeles County Superior Court judges have hatched pl...

San Bernardino County Superior Court Judge Debra Harris draws a hard line on courtroom decorum, but she takes time to listen t...

Vice President, Deputy General Counsel and Assistant Secretary for eBay Inc. San Jose ...

Making systemic changes to state sentencing laws can best eliminate prison overcrowding in California. By Jeffrey A. Lowe ...

Tips for employers and their counsel to keep in mind when adopting arbitration agreements to prevent class actions. By Barbara...

California's anti-deficiency laws protect guarantors from sham guaranties designed by dishonest lenders. By Robert M. Heller o...

A lawyer tries to stop a project he handled for a former client. By Wendy L. Patrick of the San Diego district attorney's offi...

Chrysler's new superstore redefines the business of selling cars, but does it circumvent the law? By Jonathan Michaels of Mich...

Donny Love Sr. - the purported mastermind behind the 2008 bombing of the federal courthouse in downtown San Diego - was found ...

The NAACP and an Antelope Valley community group are set to file a federal lawsuit today that alleges well-known personal inju...

If President Barack Obama wants trouble-free confirmation for his next nominee to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, he sh...

Wells Fargo Bank has sued San Francisco litigation defense firm Jackson Jenkins Renstrom LLP for fraud. ...

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a challenge to a California law allowing undocumented immigrants to pay in-stat...

A federal judge said she will likely allow plaintiffs' lawyers to proceed with large parts of a proposed securities fraud clas...

Rejecting a challenge by business interests, a state appellate court ruled Monday that California officials have broad authori...

Howrey LLP successfully converted its bankruptcy from an involuntary Chapter 7 into a voluntary Chapter 11 proceeding. ...

Justice William F. Rylaarsdam will serve as the acting presiding judge of the 4th District Court of Appeal division in Santa A...

The U.S. Supreme Court preserved the bedrock principle in patent law that the rights to an invention belong to the inventor Mo...

Saltzman felt right at home as an attorney in bankruptcy law, then decided to leave practice behind and tackle the cases from ...

An effort to get every attorney in the state to give $100 toward legal services for the poor through their annual State Bar du...

Associate general counsel and director legal affairs for TVG Network Los Angeles ...

How to manipulate IRAs and living trusts to get the most favorable result. By Bruce Givner of Givner & Kaye and Jeffrey Mu...

A review of franchise laws may give Dodger owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt, a shield and sword against Major League Baseball. ...

The state Supreme Court's decision in Seabright Insurance Co. v. U.S. Airways Inc. could be the most anticipated releas...

The 4th District's attempt to clear up ambiguity over the statute of limitations for attorney wrongdoing results in a trap for...

A holocaust survivor's six-year legal battle to recover a family painting stolen by the Nazis during World War II received a m...