David W. Quinto, one of the founders of Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP, has left a boutique formed by ex-Quinn atto...

A San Francisco federal judge properly waived Iran's sovereign immunity to allow terrorism victims to collect money owed from ...

Bank of America Corp. and its appraisal subsidiary reached a $36 million settlement in a pending class action by a group of re...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

More than half of celebrity endorsements of brands or products on social media are not done in compliance with Federal Trade C...

Earlier this month, the Internal Revenue Service issued proposed regulations that may change the way practitioners draft and s...

For film festivals, business is booming. Based on a recent Internet search, there were at least 257 festivals based in Califor...

Patent litigation in the digital age has taken the federal judiciary by storm. That's why professor Peter Menell put together ...

A majority decision ruled that a complaint accusing Guitar Center Inc, as well as five guitar manufacturers, of colluding to f...

A 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Tuesday held that the Southern District of California had failed to provide adequ...

A trial in Los Angeles County Superior Court that started Tuesday will determine if the UC Regents violated the state's Confid...

A federal appellate court panel on Tuesday affirmed the RICO convictions of private investigator Anthony Pellicano and other d...

Chances are, the federal government's plan to carve out a California-sized part of Alaska as a critical habitat for polar bear...

Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP partner Perlette M. Jura visited Kenya as part of a training program for local locals sponsored...

Since the inception of the inter-partes review and covered business method processes in 2011, the Patent Trial and Appeals Boa...

A recent 9th Circuit opinion resolves a problem of statutory construction that has existed for well over 20 years. By Patricia...

Trust & estate boutique Albertson & Davidson LLP announced it will open an office in Irvine in September, along with n...

In the first decisions of their kind, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office rejected two patent challenges from the Coalition f...

A Kirkland & Ellis LLP deal team guided Sycamore Partners LLC through a $3 billion buyout of North Carolina-based Belk Inc...

The high cost of operations, coupled with a continual onslaught of lawsuits - varying from medical malpractice to class action...

An inventor has sued the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, claiming it is infringing his patent on tec...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge David Cowan fully engages attorneys in probate court.

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Last week, the NLRB voted to decline to exercise jurisdiction over the Northwestern University's football team's attempt to be...

Opening statements began Friday in an Orange County Superior Court case pitting a pension benefit company against seven former...

2015 was supposed to be the year for federal data breach legislation, but observers say the clock is running out for bills int...

Judge Lucy H. Koh ruled Friday that animation studio employees sufficiently proved studios took steps to fraudulently conceale...

LA County Superior Court Judge Michael Tynan tends to favor rehabilitation over punishment.

Due to a lack of lawyers and unfavorable case law, there have been few private lawsuits in response to the federal Education D...