In a departure from two decades as a litigator, Beth McGowen now hears juvenile delinquency cases that have exposed her to a ...

Five acquisition finance partners in New York said goodbye to Latham & Watkins Tuesday to join Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &...

Adult entertainment company Playboy Enterprises has selected Sol Rosenthal, counsel in Arnold & Porter's Los Angeles offic...

Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker will issue an order Wednesday in the closely-watched federal constitutional cha...

After years of effort, sentencing reformers had cause for celebration Tuesday when President Barack Obama signed into law a bi...

Jones Day welcomed two partners in California this week: Litigator Cynthia Cwik has joined the firm's product liability and to...

Adding a dot-com designation to a generic word isn't enough to attain distinctive trademark status, a federal appellate panel ...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court cannot use his judicial salary as a basis for his Los Angeles city employees' pension for ...

The stock market has been tough on life science companies this year and San Diego-based Trius Therapeutics Inc.'s initial publ...

The possiblity of insurance coverage for awards of attorney fees should not be overlooked. By Kirk A. Pasich of Dickstein Shap...

Never underestimate the importance of keeping detailed records of the screening, interviewing and hiring process, by Brianne M...

The last installment of dissent to the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct attacks its treatment of conflicts of intere...

In a landmark decision today, Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker struck down Proposition 8, California's voter-app...

A Sacramento judge ruled Tuesday that the attorney general's description of a closely watched November ballot measure to suspe...

New Century Financial Corp., struck a $150 million settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission, as well as sharehol...

California is edging closer to re-instituting lethal injections, but opponents have redoubled their efforts against it. ...

A bill that seeks to dismantle California's barrier preventing lawsuits against adults who knowingly provide alcohol to minors...

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Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher opened a three-attorney office in Hong Kong in a move to capitalize on an uptick...

In the latest round in a fight over licensing, a former professional football player filed a class action in San Francisco fed...

Legal issues surrounding same-sex marriage will be a popular topic of discussion when the American Bar Association annual meet...

Will local governments be empowered to ban facilities that dispense medical marijuana? By Ellin Davtyan of Meyers Nave. ...

A lawyer wins a case she never had a chance to try, by John Scherling of Sughrue Mion. ...

Northern District Chief Judge Vaughn R. Walker will issue an order Wednesday in the closely-watched federal constitutional cha...

Expect the high court to flush out the law as it reviews the degree to which an employer is liable for a worker's injury, by G...

In a significant, if not unexpected, blow to the local plaintiffs bar, a federal judge appointed a New York firm representing ...

The California Supreme Court on Monday ruled 5-2 that a former judge did not have a duty to disclose his public censure for se...

The California Supreme Court on Monday affirmed Proposition 209, the 1996 statewide voter initiative that placed a ban on race...

This third installment criticizing the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct focuses on the overexpansion of informed cli...

The latest transactions by California attorneys.