The state Supreme Court formally placed prominent Los Angeles litigator Pierce H. O'Donnell on suspension based on convictions...

The recent settlement of a lawsuit between the Los Angeles city attorney's office and Deutsche Bank could cast doubt on a leg...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Mercury Public Affairs agreed to settle an unfair labor practice charge filed by Warehouse Workers Un...

California's tough, three-day bar exam should be shortened to two days, the State Bar panel that oversees the test declared Fr...

With many predicting the eventual, widespread use of unmanned aircrafts, or drones, in California airspace, one state senator ...

Perkins Coie LLP brought labor and employment partner Jonesh G. Daryanani on board as a partner in the Los Angeles office Mond...

Canadian jumbo-screen movie specialist Imax Corp. is alleging that a former employee stole trade secrets related to its 3-D an...

Jeffer Mangels Butler & Mitchell LLP hired partner Patrick M. Ryan from Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP to chair the firm'...

Regional litigation shop Atkinson, Andelson, Loya, Ruud & Romo PLC added a high-stakes trial lawyer to head its litigation...

Latham & Watkins LLP is representing Westlake Village-based financial software developer Intuit Inc. in the pending sale o...

Google scored a legal victory Monday when the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals overturned class certification for a group of ...

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

Today marks the 20th anniversary of the tragedy that took place at 101 California Street in San Francisco in 1993, when a dist...

In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court found that a governmental denial of a permit to build on wetlands property could con...

A problem arises when one person's publicity/privacy rights come in conflict with another person's rights under the First Amen...

The result is that federal benefits conferred to married couples in over 1,000 federal statutes now benefit same-sex couples a...

Bingham McCutchen LLP has expanded its Los Angeles-based corporate practice group with the addition of in-house heavyweight Ch...

Apple Inc. allegedly engaged in deceptive business practices when it charged consumers an additional dollar to rent high defin...

Lawyers for gay conversion therapists seeking to reverse California's ban on their practice for minors tried to turn the table...

A federal judge questioned Friday whether a plaintiff's lawyer deserves more than $8 million in fees for his role in putting t...

The state Judicial Council Friday approved a plan to allow county courts to require electronic filing in civil cases and imple...

A little-noticed amendment in the massive immigration overhaul bill could have big implications for the Eastern District of Ca...

5th District Justice Dennis Cornell is considered smart and willing to make controversial calls.

Christopher B. Latham, a U.S. Bankruptcy Judge in San Diego, has a varied background.

Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC recently opened its first California office in Pasadena by adding intellectual property...

Brian K. Petraborg is new to traffic court but has been patrolling the ski slopes for years.

General Counsel and Vice President of Social Responsibility for O'Neill Wetsuits LLC Santa Cruz ...

With Congress' inability to pass legislation, California and several other states have taken steps to protect employees, inclu...

The consensus at a panel I recently attended was that Daubert motions were getting too complicated, too broad and - wit...

While special masters have been utilized since the 1980s, recent developments have made the need for the services of special m...