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 ...

Senior Vice President, General Counsel, Secretary of Support.com Inc. Redwood Shores ...

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...

Gov. Jerry Brown's appointment of Mariano-Florentino Cuellar to the California Supreme Court was widely praised Wednesday, but...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

Shareholder derivative litigation targeting boards has enjoyed increasing popularity and focus from the plaintiffs' securities...

The past few years have seen an explosion of new and recently modified anticorruption legislation in countries all around the ...

Since 2009, the number of settled FCPA enforcement actions involving conduct in Latin America has outpaced the number of actio...

To prevent unjust results in criminal insider trading cases the government should be required to prove that the defendant knew...

While defending parallel actions simultaneously is not for the faint of heart, it can bring significant procedural advantages....

Lawyers who do defense work in the health care sector are concerned about how prosecutors will interpret certain parts of the ...

Beginning this month, Deputy Attorney General James M. Cole directed agents with the FBI and other agencies to turn on a camer...

Our state Supreme Court balances the competing demands of federal and state law, deferring to Congress when appropriate but vi...