California has taken dramatic steps to negate the benefits its businesses and residents previously enjoyed by "moving away." B...

The harsh results of the new law, especially its retroactive application, have made the situation unpalatable to non-Indian mu...

Strangely, a nonearning same-sex partner may be required to pay taxes he or she should not otherwise owe. By Emily J. Kingston...

Ten years after creditors pushed San Francisco law firm Brobeck, Phleger & Harrison LLP into bankruptcy, the defunct firm'...

The Howrey estate has sued several vendors, including Ceridian Benefit Services Inc. and Cigna Healthcare Inc., in hopes of re...

Since 2009, 38,000 individuals have voluntarily disclosed their foreign financial accounts, taking advantage of a special amne...

In December, the Franchise Tax Board decided to eliminate a tax deduction for people who buy, sell or invest in startup compan...

Defense attorneys' transparency about their clients' wrongdoing in relation to the government's insider trading case against a...

Judge Daniel Ramirez finds excitement in the efficiency he's able to bring to his civil calendar.

The U.K.'s top tax policymaker was in California last week promoting his country's recently-lowered corporate tax rate, new ta...

Fox Rothschild LLP added John E. Mason Jr. and Jonathan B. Altschul as partners in the firm's Los Angeles office. Both joined ...

Formerly a watchdog for the state prisons, Judge Brett Morgan now helps criminals stay in line.

Judge Terrence Van Oss pulls no punches, wins respect.

The case is of particular interest in the damages context because the patent owner had sought and obtained a jury award based ...

The state Supreme Court granted Inland Empire's petition for review and heard oral argument Feb. 5. Based on the justices' que...

Rather than being adversaries, soon-to-be-married persons should view themselves as partners in the crafting of a prenuptial a...

Two years after starting her own law firm, Polina Friedland Bernstein's practice got busy enough to necessitate another attorn...

Two Bay Area small firms represented an Oakland developer and a Chinese investor in a venture delivering the final funding for...

The Asian Pacific American Bar Association of Los Angeles County celebrated its 15th anniversary installation dinner at the Lo...

Former students of a defunct private helicopter school in Oakland must arbitrate claims against their tuition lenders, instead...

The Friends of the Los Angeles County Law Library presented their annual Beacon of Justice Award to Judge Lee Smalley Edmon, f...

The manner in which an insurer observes its contractual duties, not whether it breached an express contract term, forms...

A Los Angeles area attorney has been charged with smuggling drugs into a jail for his client, the Los Angeles district attorne...

The city of Ontario filed a claim against Los Angeles Thursday in an effort to wrest control of the struggling L.A./Ontario In...

Oakland officials may face sanctions for limiting the work of a compliance director charged with reforming the city's police d...

Jones Day has snatched Fred W. Alvarez from Wilson Sonini Goodrich & Rosati PC in Palo Alto, where he was co-chair of the ...

Members and friends of the South Asian Bar Association of Southern California convened in downtown Los Angeles in March to cel...

An appellate court upheld a city's affirmation that residential developments are exempt from CEQA review if the development is...

Last month, U.S. District Court Judge Thelton Henderson visited Thurgood Marshall Academic High School in San Francisco as pa...

A three-judge panel on Thursday denied the state's motion to vacate a 2009 court order that prisons be brought to 137.5 percen...