Shearman & Sterling is expanding its Bay Area mergers and acquisitions group and corporate practice with the addition of t...

Cory Weck, a civil plaintiffs’ lawyer who has a 4-year-old case that is set for trial in Riverside next month, said he’s witne...

Rated as an 'A+ trial attorney,' David M. Rubin is earning high marks for his work as a San Diego trial judge. ...

Just as democracy requires transparency so that voters can hold elected officials accountable, so the financial system require...

A San Clemente-based company, Calcar Inc., produces automobile operating manuals. A Palo Alto-based nonprofit organization, wh...

A Q & A with Steptoe & Johnson bankruptcy attorney Robin Itkin, who has been a leader in establishing the firm's subpr...

The mass exodus from Heller Ehrman following its decision to dissolve last month allowed 2,300-attorney law firm Jones Day to ...

At issue is whether the instruction the state court judge gave to the jury during the trial of Michael Pulido was a harmless e...

Ingrid A. Uhler says that being a judge is a lot like being a parent - juggling tasks at home helped prepare her to be flexi...

Alana Knaster, who served as president of the Mediation Institute, stands at Pebble Beach in Monterey County, where she is now...

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could face another legal challenge to their efforts to dramatically cut diesel truck p...

Without the $700 billion bailout, the pace of foreclosures would have continued to increase, exacerbating the decline in home ...

Orange County philanthropist Henry Samueli said Tuesday he would stick by his troubled plea deal with prosecutors, even thoug...

Two East Coast law firms announced on Tuesday the next round of acquisitions from San Francisco's firm-in-dissolution, Heller ...

A federal trial judge was wrong to invalidate a San Jose campaign finance law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tues...

The state can't exclude abused men from government-funded domestic violence programs, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday. ...

The federal jury that will hear the corruption trial against former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona likely will learn that a...

A patent dispute in Southern California over a compound used for making an anti-cancer drug will be resolved by the U.S. Supre...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated an exclusion order barring the importation of wireless devices conta...

There are several reasons why a committee and its counsel are better served by the extra protection of an exculpation clause i...

San Diego jurist John S. Meyer is approachable in court, and lawyers who have cases before him like it that way. ...

The appellate firm of Horvitz & Levy has added two associates to its Encino office.

"The Buddhist tradition is to find a solution through communication, not courts or police," said Suon In, pictured right, a mo...

Job prospects dimmed for former Orange County prosecutor Vickie L. Hix after she campagined against her boss in a district at...

San Francisco police evacuated part of the Embarcadero West office building Monday after a man showed up at Lief Cabraser with...

KPMG must pay a former Corona company $31.8 million under a jury verdict in which Newport Beach lawyers accused the Big Four a...

A lawyer who was slated to race in the Ironman triathlon was forced to pull out after a crash with a car left him with serious...

Parental involvement laws do not transform dysfunctional families into stable and supportive ones. They simply give pregnant t...

A recent appellate decision tells us that the trial court has discretion in dividing the community interest in survivor benefi...

everal years ago, when partners at the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom started thinking about a...