Involuntary outpatient commitment has a questionable track record of improving mental health treatment or reducing violence. W...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited litigants' ability to hop between bankruptcy court and district court when it upheld ...

Even as the star witness on the opening day of an antitrust trial by former college athletes against the NCAA was former baske...

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

Senior Circuit Judge J. Clifford Wallace thinks California legislators should enact a law requiring the state's attorney gener...

There are several need-to-know elements of employment law for companies expanding their business operations into two jurisdict...

Disturbing implications that the Supreme Court might be slipping back into the kind of micromanagement of capital sentencing t...

Of the 157 C-suite executives, in-house counsel, investment bankers and venture capitalists surveyed for the report, 72 percen...

In a fight over the constitutionality of the federal government's mass surveillance efforts, an Oakland federal judge on Frida...

Attorneys Marshall Rutter, left, and David Scheidemantle, right, were recently honored at the Los Angeles Children's Chorus Ga...

Beverly Hills Bar fetes Supreme Court justices ...

The 9th Circuit voted to reverse U.S. District Judge John F. Walter and send back to him for further proceedings the case of t...

A Superior Court judge granted summary judgment to DirecTV in a contract dispute with company that sold its subscriptions. ...

Judge Judith McConnell of the 4th District Court of Appeal, left, was named one of this year's "Cool Women" by Girl Scouts San...

The Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Friday that the US sector lost 700 jobs last month, following a loss of 1,200 in April...

Eye-popping round values company at $18.2 billion ...

Wedbush Securities has tapped Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP to defend it against Securities and Exchange Commission charges...

The SEC went 0-for-2 over the past seven days in insider trading cases as a federal jury in Santa Ana on Friday found the form...

The school had received provisional accreditation in 2011 but wasn't eligible for full approval for three more years. ...

The settlement "may provide comfort that further antitrust violations can be settled for a fraction of their value, even in th...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal on Friday seemed unconvinced that a jury should have multiplied Los Angeles lawyer Hillel Cho...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Donald Sullivan takes small matters seriously.

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

Lawyers say Justice Robert Dondero is engaged in arguments and isn't afraid to buck legal trends.

Proponents of unpaid internships argue that they provide unique opportunities for go-getters. Critics call them 'institutional...

In the U.S. Supreme Court's recent decision in Wood v. Moss, the court again had occasion to apply the "plausibility" pleading...

Ney's strategy of persistent and tenacious follow-up after mediations often helps bring the parties together, attorneys say. ...

If a judge sides with a request by Franklin Templeton Investments, a Stockton creditor fighting the city's bankruptcy plan, ex...

Davis Wright Tremaine LLP secured an attorney fee award exceeding $200,000 for Oakland-based client Hydrapak Inc., an appellat...

A split federal appellate court panel ruled this week that an attorney drafting an order on behalf of a judge does not qualify...