A Los Angeles lawyer got nowhere on Monday at the state Supreme Court with a parade of pleas that events beyond his control we...

A civil war within the Los Angeles Archdiocese over who controls the sale of a Los Feliz convent will start playing out July 3...

In a sign of beefed-up efforts to tackle the ongoing drought, the State Water Resources Control Board on Monday proposed its l...

Alexander MacKinnon has been appointed a Magistrate Judge to the U.S. Central District, in the court's Western Division and sw...

Judge Brian S. McCarville issued sanctions against Chafee High School district after damning documents proved employees knew t...

Despite recent success at the U.S. Supreme Court, numerous challenges to LGBT equality exist. Specifically, the state and fede...

Plaintiffs' attorney Joseph R. Saveri trimmed his firm's attorney fee request by more than $7 million in a bid to win approval...

In an unexplained move that appears to end the appeal of a $185 million pregnancy discrimination verdict, the plaintiff and Au...

Superior Court Judge Kern County (Bakersfield) ...

A judge in San Diego recently granted mandamus nullifying UC San Diego's finding that one of its female students had been sexu...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Rainmaker Kirk Pasich is leaving Dickstein Shapiro LLP for Liner LLP and taking nine other insurance attorneys with him, sourc...

Attorneys who appear before the Court of Appeal are often very differential, respectful, polite and professional. Some attorne...

It would mean an end to the constant political turmoil that distracts and enervates the public protection mission of the disci...

Earlier this month, a federal appellate court took the first step in answering the age-old question: What is an intern? By Dan...

For years, the federal Telephone Consumer Protection Act has been a source of frustration for companies in virtually every ind...

Illumina Inc. successfully struck down three gene sequencing patents held by Columbia University after the U.S. Court of Appea...

A former Ballard Spahr LLP attorney is going back to his small-firm roots by opening a new boutique that will take on the incr...

Arguments that the state Department of Conservation was allowing gas and oil companies to illegally pollute aquifers did not s...

Garth A. Osterman will transition to Cooley's San Francisco office along with three other attorneys who will be posted in New ...

After repeatedly ignoring tenants' complaints about chipping lead paint at a residential property, the state agency paid the f...

U.S. District Judge Andrew Guilford questions how a major firm could misplace witness notes and whether a serious conflict of ...

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Christopher Rudy made a quick pivot from private practice last year.

Immigrating from Argentina as a boy shaped Judge Gustavo Sztraicher's outlook on the rule of law.

In a tentative decision, a San Francisco superior court judge handling a bitter legal fight, ruled that Metropolitan overcharg...

Not every lawyer's frolic into ventures outside of law practice turn out quite so well as the lawyer-founders of California Pi...

According to surveys, most partners think their compensation does not fully reflect their value to their firm. By J. Randolph ...

Despite federal law, California public policy and great client need demands legal help for clients in the industry. But client...

Four gas station owners say BP forces them to buy Arco gasoline, which BP also owns, at name-brand prices, leaving them at a c...