The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission whistleblower program, launched as part of the 2010 Dodd-Frank Act, has not yet be...

Expanding the assumption of risk doctrine in favor of the amusement park industry, the state Supreme Court on Monday ruled tha...

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

Even as Republican senators took potshots at the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over a Maui judicial conference, they also ...

On Dec. 14, the National Labor Relations Board issued its second decision to examine firings involving Facebook postings. By E...

Mediators are human beings, and all human beings have biases. If left unconstrained, those biases can ripen into deception of ...

Beginning Jan. 1, 2013, depositions in California state cases will be limited to seven hours. The new time limit has the poten...

U.S. District Court Judge James V. Selma indicated he would approve the deal between Toyota Motor Corp.and a class of current ...

A Los Angeles-based company's plans to make money extracting water from underneath the Mojave Desert has won government approv...

Matthew D. Umhofer, counsel at Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP & Affiliates, is scheduled to join the Law Of...

A Pleasanton lawyer pleaded guilty Thursday to allegations that he lied to the Internal Revenue Service about fabricating thre...

Santa Clara County Superior Court Judge Paul R. Teilh, who was the county's longest-serving jurist and known for his penchant ...

The State Bar Lawyer Assistance Program, which helps lawyers with substance-abuse or mental-health problems, is accepting an i...

Riverside attorney Barry O'Connor and Tustin practitioner Steve D. Silverstein are among the sole lawyers known in local areas...

"The Jazz Execs" isn't just a clever name - the band is comprised of lawyers, judges and business executives who play concerts...

Stanford's design school, dubbed the d-school, provides an innovative, multi-disciplinary approach to problem-solving that a h...

A federal law going into effect in January may cause a big headache for California law firms that accept credit card payments ...

Patent and copyright battles between major California-based technology companies, such as Apple Inc. and Google Inc., dominate...

Donald J. Ayoob takes a sociologist's mindset to the bench and stresses 'open-mindedness.'

Holland & Knight LLP elected Kristina Starr Azlin to partner in Los Angeles. The promotion is effective January 1. Azlin ...

So just what does your typical homeowner's insurance policy cover for such losses? As a recent case explained, the answer depe...

When it comes to insurance companies, interpleader actions are not an all-purpose get-out-of-jail-free card to avoid liability...

The "Homeowner Bill of Rights" takes effect Jan. 1, 2013. Here are some of the significant provisions you should know. By Patr...

Lawyers and staff in the Los Angeles office of McGuireWoods LLP gathered on Dec. 19 to wrap more than 400 umbrellas, flashligh...

More than a century ago, Price, Postel & Parma's founder worked part-time as county sheriff, chased a group of bandits out...