Canadian officials are trying to take advantage of a U.S. investor program mired in red tape by pitching their country as 'not...

Attorneys with Manatt, Phelps & Phillips and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett advised Pasadena-based East West Bancorp Inc. ...

Khorrami Pollard & Abir, one of the largest plaintiffs-only firms in California, laid off at least 20 employees last month...

The U.S. Supreme Court appeared unconvinced Monday by arguments over what types of business methods qualify for patent protect...

Attorneys for two former McKesson Corp. executives have said their clients had nothing to do with efforts to fraudulently infl...

Silicon Valley lawyers helped Redwood City-based Electronic Arts Inc. acquire the second-largest social gaming company on Face...

Gideon Kanner of Loyola Law School says a recent Wisconsin Supreme Court decision shows why eminent domain practices are 'klep...

Former Los Angeles County deputy district attorney Robin Sax explains the effect of crime shows such as 'CSI' on jury expectat...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to intervene over a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision in a racial discrimin...

Nixon Peabody and a former partner in its Los Angeles office have been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission as...

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Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. appeared Monday to be trying to craft a compromise that would allow the U.S. Supreme Court t...

With Congress closer to passing a health care plan stripping health insurers of their anti-trust exemptions, the industry may ...

Michael Heumann's strong managerial skills, drawn from his education and his ability to manage by consensus, have helped him g...

A Hong Kong investment group snapped up the W Hotel in San Francisco at a 30 percent discount from the height of the market.

October marked the worst month yet since the recession began for unemployment in the legal sector, with 5,800 jobs lost, accor...

Nick Pujji, Ana Tagvoryan and Joshua Briones of DLA Piper examine Vinole v. Countrywide Home Loans, Inc. and class certification.

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati lawyers helped an Arizona-based client win the dismissal of a lawsuit in Illinois, a succ...

Shell Oil Co. will pay $19.5 million for hundreds of environmental violations at gas stations across the state in a settlement...

The ACLU says the Attorney General's office could avoid sending an unprecedented number of cases out to private attorneys if t...

Gregg Garfinkel of Nemecek & Cole says interstate shippers who do not adhere to the claims filing requirement can lose val...

The Senate passed a spending bill last week easing restrictions on what nonprofit legal service providers can do if they take ...

A San Diego County deputy district attorney is accused of mishandling exculpatory evidence in a rape case, according to defens...

A judge's request for a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals review of an important ruling on a federal probe into baseball playe...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Attorney duo Andrew W. and Danielle B. Mayoras provide tips on estate planning by dissecting high-profile celebrity disputes.

Attorney and author Michael Paul Thomas tells the cautionary tale of discovery 'gamesmanship' in Clement v. Alegre.

Integrity - or Dimitrios P. Biller's conception of it - is central to the deterioration of his once-stellar law career. It is ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A Bakersfield jury awarded truck-stop operator Flying J Inc. $632,000 for a piece of the Mojave desert once appraised at $14,8...