Should partners from a dissolving firm be obligated to pay the dissolved firm's creditors from profits earned on work performe...

This article won't teach you anything about ethics you don't already know - unless you don't know it is unethical to bribe jud...

From left: McManis Faulkner partners Michele Corvi, William Faulkner and Michael Reedy at the 16th Annual Justice Edward A. Pa...

The motion in the case of Scott Eugene Dekraai, who murdered eight people and injuring another during a 2011 shooting at a Sea...

Individual teacher evaluations related to standardized test scores are not subject to public disclosure, a state appellate pan...

Striking out to form a firm of their own in April was in many ways a natural extension of the close ties and deep experience t...

The 3rd District Court of Appeal ruled Thursday that the state complied with CEQA when it chose the train's route between San ...

Though attorneys appreciate George P. Schiavelli for being a proactive mediator who is quick to change tactics when necessary,...

Latham & Watkins represented Los Angeles-based oil and gas producer Breitburn Energy Partners LP in its $1.6 billion acqui...

Bryan Cave LLP partner Daniel Wheeler, left, and Federalist Society representative David A. DeGroot, a San Francisco-based spe...

The attorney faces federal prison time after pleading guilty to defrauding immigrants about to be deported and separately to h...

A motorcycle dealer who arranged for 20 separate fraudulent sales of vehicles could be convicted of theft for all 20 offenses,...

Plaintiffs' lawyers cannot be on the hook for costs to defend against bad tort actions filed against public agencies, a state ...

The federal Consumer Financial Protection Bureau has sued a Garden Grove lawyer and two nonlawyers who worked with him for all...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal denied an appeal from a woman who alleged Pittullo, Barker & Associates LLP didn't proper...

Fee-shifting bylaws, we hardly knew you. Last month saw a number of developments when it comes to fee-shifting bylaws. By Stev...

A federal judge did everything Thursday but sign an order certifying a nationwide class and preliminarily approving what could...

While judges have recently criticized several employment class action settlements, plaintiffs' lawyers hope the scrutiny will ...

Internet users across America are calling on the FCC to do the right thing for an open Internet: scrap its proposed rules and ...

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

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

As higher court decisions in the U.S. have limited the reach of antitrust enforcement in the past decade, American attorneys ...

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A recently enacted regulation has effectively bottled up collection activity and given defendants another avenue to avoid coll...

I like to think that I'm a fair superior court judge. The question I ask myself is whether I would have been a fair Student Co...

Alvarado, founder of Orange County-based law firm AlvaradoSmith APC, community leader and strong proponent of the advancement ...

A new report on California commercial real estate is bullish on office space development as well as multi-family and industria...

A San Bernardino County judge dealt a heavy blow to prosecutors Wednesday in one of the state's biggest public corruption case...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently granted certiorari in Reed v. Town of Gilbert. The dispute is quite mundane, but the qu...

Attorneys brokering cross-border transactions are cautiously optimistic that an unprecedented appellate ruling could shine a l...