In what's become almost a perennial tradition, the state judicial branch is pushing a bill to authorize and fund new bench off...

Within weeks the state Supreme Court is expected to make a decision on whether to review or depublish a 3rd District Court of ...

Twitter Inc. paid $36 million to avoid infringement claims by International Business Machines Corp., the San Francisco-based c...

Downey Brand LLP named a new managing partner, created a chairman position and rebooted its executive council at a retreat th...

Facing persistently constrained and competitive outlets for the kinds of leveraged buyouts that often defines them, private eq...

After handling corporate work for Safeway Inc. for more than 25 years, Latham & Watkins was brought once more as counsel t...

Chief U.S. District Judge Claudia Wilken will take senior status at the end of 2014, opening up a new vacancy on the Northern ...

Six Nicaraguan men who claimed they became sterilized by a pesticide while working on a banana farm run by Dole Food Company I...

The industry saw a slight drop in jobs last month, according to a Bureau of Labor Statistics report, the latest in what has be...

The high court has held that the "listeners' reaction to speech is not a content-neutral basis for regulation - in other words...

Students and new lawyers called on State Bar leaders Friday to keep data about bar exam applicants out of the hands of a resea...

Former high level officials are finding themselves at the center of an increasingly ferocious discovery fight between the Depa...

Gail Feuer, known for her environmental work, says her long-term goal had always been to be a judge.

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

Newton Lam recently left his comfort zone by switching from a criminal to civil assignment.

Los Angeles County Judge Robert Broadbelt III emphasizes civility his family court assignment.

One problem that most of the current plans to "reform" the patent system ignore is how changes will affect individual inventor...

Hogan Lovells LLP partnered with UC Hastings College of the Law and the UC Berkeley Center for Law and Technology to host an a...

Non-U.S. advocates may not serve as counsel in arbitration hearings in California, even when they are the primary counse to th...

Recent cases suggest physicians who voluntarily undertake the task of policing medical peer review standards may be subject to...

The inventorship rule is relatively clear when an invention was conceived by a solo inventor, but can become complex when more...

A recent case tests whether a hiring bonus based on a book of business built during marriage is divisible upon divorce. By Mit...

In the past year, Kiesel, Boucher & Larson LLP, the powerhouse firm Paul R. Kiesel co-founded 15 years ago, shrank from th...

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP welcomed partner Jeffrey L. Bleich back to the law firm Monday following his serving as U.S. am...

Hundreds of lawyers, judges, professionals and others convened in Los Angeles on Wednesday night to celebrate the 40th anniver...

When employment mediator Katherine J. Edwards considers a case, she makes sure all the pieces of the puzzle fall into place be...

Former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor spoke to a group in Los Angeles on Monday about the importance of civics...

Legislative hearings on the judicial branch's budget won't start until April, but organizers are already making plans to press...

McManis Faulkner lawyers pitched in to help needy children Feb. 27 as part of The Pajama Program's "Open Your Heart" campaign....

The state Department of Water Resources violated CEQA by failing to look at how the Kern Water Bank could harm the environment...