A complaint alleging four California men traded on non-public information at Ross Stores Inc. demonstrates that a few trial lo...

The upcoming state budget bill is expected to include language pressuring judges to give more criminals shorter jail time and...

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

Amy Pellman works hard to make American Indian children feel comfortable in her court.

Patricia Lucas compares her job supervising Santa Clara County's civil division to 'air traffic control.'

There are some technical requirements for effective mediation agreements with which many practitioners may not be familiar. By...

In "In Our Hands," Elizabeth Palley and Corey Shdaimah explore the reasons behind the relative paucity of U.S. government invo...

Anyone who has clients who might need assistance in negotiating an international transaction should invest in Gary Born's prod...

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

The law firm Haddad & Sherwin, whose leaders honed their chops in Michigan, chooses its cases carefully as it confronts th...

Tesla Motors Inc.'s announcement that the company plans to throw open its intellectual property portfolio for public use caugh...

Lawmakers in both houses backed increasing court funding by about $308 million at the end of May. But late Wednesday night, la...

Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice celebrated 41 years of assisting low-income families with legal matters at its annual g...

By next year, Riverside County Superior Court is planning to return to assigning all civil cases to a so-called "independent" ...

A criminal defendant should not be harmed by his attorney's mistake, an appellate court has ruled, giving a convicted murderer...

More than 250 lawyers, judges and community members gathered May 15 to honor San Bernardino County Presiding Judge Marsha G. S...

Ribakoff enjoys "uncovering the mysteries" within each case he handles as an arbitrator and mediator, and uses a blend of stru...

A bill that would require lawyers to put advance fees into their trust accounts has been shelved in response to objections fro...

The most valuable asset of most Silicon Valley companies is not the brick and mortar, but the company's work force. By Christo...

In a decision expanding the ability to litigate food and beverage mislabeling, the Supreme Court Thursday held that a Los Ange...

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

Senior vice president, secretary, chief compliance officer and general counsel, VMware Inc. Palo Alto ...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Alhambra) ...

In just over a month, the Securities and Exchange Commission will wrap up an unprecedented review of its definition of "accred...

While "The Runaway Jury" made for a gripping movie, the consequences of such juror dishonesty for the criminally accused can b...

Default rate interest provisions are standard language in business loan agreements, and constitute an additional amount to be ...

New courthouses opening in California feature better security systems than their decades-old predecessors, but law enforcement...

Google Inc. has declined to petition the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to reconsider an earlier panel opi...

In an extremely rare wage and hour class action trial, lawyers for a Colma casino defeated claims that the company had illegal...

Mark Cavendish, left, an Omega Pharma Quick Step cycling team member, with Nossaman LLP partner Mary Powers Antoine. The firm ...