On April 20 at the Los Angeles City Hall Rotunda, the Latina Lawyers Bar Association honored Maria Blanco, vice president of c...

The Entertainment Law Section of the Beverly Hills Bar Association honored Ken Kleinberg, founding partner of Kleinberg Lopez...

Four legal leaders received honors from the Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County at the organization's 14th annual awards lun...

The American Bar Association awarded DLA Piper its Business Law Section's 2011 National Public Service Award for its commitmen...

The lawyer who advised clients to break into their foreclosed homes lost his right to practice law Thursday. ...

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris announced Thursday her endorsement of San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon in his b...

One month after state Administrative Office of the Courts' Director William C. Vickrey announced his decision to retire in Sep...

How one attorney overcame loss by writing a simple thank-you note once a day, for a year. By John Kralik of the Los Angeles Co...

An unexpected act of violence rattles the lives of all those involved. By Michael Link. ...

When a client displays antisocial characteristics, attorneys are wise to have their guard up. By Paul Fisher of Pepperdine Uni...

Gary W. Osborne and Dominic S. Nesbitt were content representing insurance companies in business disputes, until they took a c...

Proskauer Rose LLP has named Michael Woronoff managing partner of the firm's Los Angeles office. ...

A federal law designed to combat computer hacking can be used against people who steal company trade secrets, the 9th U.S. Cir...

Bankrupt investment giant Lehman Brothers looks to California morgtage companies to recoup losses. So far, the federal courts ...

The Heller estate sued 49 other firms for taking business away from it amid its dissolution, but at the same time, it's facing...

Justice David G. Sills, the presiding justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana for the last 21 years, will ret...

MGA Entertainment Inc. attorney Jennifer L. Keller had just two weeks to prepare when she agreed to represent the toymaker in ...

Equity Residential purchased the Pegasus luxury apartment building in the central business district of Los Angeles for $100 m...

A potential $1 billion case against the University of Southern California for undermining development of a dental implant was ...

Northern District Chief Judge James Ware was thrust into the debate Wednesday over whether his predecessor can show video of t...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer has been assigned coordination judge for dozens of cases against D...

A class action lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that state prison officials engage in racially discriminatory lockdowns. ...

Attorney General Kamala Harris announced the appointment of several senior staffers on Wednesday. ...

DLA Piper's Sacramento office is scooping up white collar and government investigations boutique Stevens, O'Connell & Jaco...

A 9th Circuit opinion puts a heavy burden on the entities responsible for discharging contaminated stormwater. By Thomas H. Cl...

After overlooking several multi-billion-dollar Ponzi schemes the SEC has revamped its operations, created a new office to snif...

Lawyers soak in a scene straight out of 1960s U.S.A. in Saigon, Vietnam. By David Pasternak of Pasternak, Pasternak & Patt...

A state appellate court has revived a lawsuit against the Los Angeles law firm Girardi & Keese for allegedly misappropriat...

What criminal defenders need to do to preserve their client's bond interests. By Azar Elihu. ...

In an example of the problems created by a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, a Court of Appeal justice was called up Wednesd...