A former law school student has filed a million-dollar claim alleging an Orange County Superior Court judge pressured her into...

Rising intellectual property star Sasha G. Rao, who has represented Google Inc. in patent litigation, has joined Bingham McCut...

In a deal valued at around $1 billion, cyber security giant Websense agreed to a buyout offered up by Austin, Texas-based Vist...

In "The Lawyer Bubble," Steven J. Harper discusses how short-term thinking has blinded some of the nation's finest minds. The ...

The California Public Employees Retirement System hopes to ban a law firm from representing parties in Stockton's and San Bern...

California law graduates carry especially high levels of debt: The state hosts one-third of the 24 law schools with the...

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

The bidding war that erupted last week for the storied St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica is shining the spotlight on th...

As "May Revise" season progresses, I hope the governor and the Legislature will take special note of the adult disabled, their...

In the end, the Federal Circuit judges seem reconciled to the likelihood that the Supreme Court will step in to provide much-n...

A recent 9th Circuit decision continues the close judicial scrutiny of class settlements and requires counsel to reconsider th...

Yahoo Inc. avoided a potential blow to its cash reserves after a Mexico appellate court overturned nearly all of a $2.7 billio...

The California attorney general's office approved, subject to various conditions, Tesoro Corp.'s $2.5 billion acquisition of m...

A pair of disbarred British solicitors who spent years fighting English regulators in efforts first to keep and then regain th...

Extending courtroom and ballot successes by the genetically modified food industry, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ...

Sacramento native Raquel Marquez was the first Latina judge in the Inland Empire.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added two partners in the past week: Michael R. Heimbold in the Century City offic...

A near-death experience changed Santa Clara County Presiding Judge Brian Walsh's outlook.

Pamela Davis, a veteran Los Angeles traffic court commissioner, is known as a 'less-threatening' and 'warmer' version of a jud...

This generally results in fewer people being included in the representative action (though it might not mean less exposure giv...