With a whopping $1.57 trillion worth of deals announced worldwide, M&A valuations in the first half of the year reached le...

Retired judge Steven Jahr will go back to retirement following a two-year stint spent stewarding reforms to the Administrative...

Judge Michael Virga will work long hours to get a civil case in his court resolved before trial.

New York's highest court ruled the estates of bankrupt firms can't claim profits from matters begun there before being taken e...

Defense lawyers are scouring their cases for constitutional violations by investigators and prosecutors thanks to a months-lon...

The creation of Common Core databases is a double whammy danger to our children and their teachers. By Betty Raskoff Kazmin ...

In a decision with far-reaching implications, the state Supreme Court allowed an undocumented employee's discrimination case f...

Lloyd Irving Taylor, a former tax lawyer, was convicted of 19 federal charges in an elaborate scheme that involved opening ban...

A federal judge is expected to decide next month whether state prosecutors in one of California's biggest public corruption sc...

Advocates for poor strike $7.9 million deal with residents ...

A Palo Alto corporate partner has returned to the firm after a brief foray at the legal department of a Northern Virginia tech...

General Counsel of Westland Real Estate Group Long Beach ...

Northern District Judge Richard Seeborg is known for his incisive questioning of arguments.

Plaintiffs' and defense attorneys are keenly aware that the young bureau's findings could become a new engine for civil litiga...

The city of Los Angeles has been at the center of the jurisprudence on homeless issues now for almost a decade. By Thomas Rice...

Securities laws exist largely to promote honest and transparent market information and investor confidence; they are not bad f...

Let economic reality seep in, and both the majority and dissent in the high court case fade in relevance. By Daniel Brenner ...

A federal judge in Sacramento was too quick to toss a lawsuit contesting the state Legislature's Medi-Cal budget cuts, a 9th U...

UC Hastings College of the Law professor Robin C. Feldman, left, and Google Inc. General Counsel J. Kent Walker Jr. discuss re...

Nearly five years after sending a demand letter to Apple Inc. alleging patent infringement, Israeli patent holder Emblaze Ltd....

Global initial public offering activity in the second quarter of the year was dominated by new issuances in the financial sect...

Joseph M. Alioto Jr., the lawyer who won $47 million in attorney fees last year, is being evicted from his Nob Hill apartment ...

The state Supreme Court ruling centered on rights of common law employees. ...

Gallo, a nationally recognized trust and estates attorney who spent more than 45 years at Greenberg Glusker Fields Claman &...

Google Inc.'s legal woes deepened Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a 2013 federal appellate ruling that the Wireta...

The number and scope of federal crimes has vastly expanded over the past few decades, but the U.S. Supreme Court has resisted ...

Gov. Jerry Brown made waves over the weekend with a string of appointments to the state courts of appeal, naming a veteran fed...

Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas announced a lawsuit Monday accusing GM of deceiving consumers and unfair busin...

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

The CFPB's latest crackdown on deceptive credit card sales and marketing of add-on products is part of a trend which can provi...