Federal securities class actions during the first half of 2012 fell slightly compared to last year, according to a new report....

Best Best & Krieger LLP inked a 10-year, 13,742 square foot lease at Lakeshore Towers at 18101 Von Karman Ave. in Irvine.

The SEC's whistle-blower program's promise of cash rewards has upped the number and quality of reported tips. It's also spurre...

Judge Don Franchi ran for judge in part because he wanted to see more consistency in family law.

What constitutes "disparagement" of another's products sufficient to trigger coverage under the personal injury of advertising...

Agencies get more public relations value by announcing big fines than they do by following through and collecting them. By Mar...

By all appearances, the U.S. solicitor general is contemplating an appeal of Nosal to the U.S. Supreme Court. By Vince ...

By a vote of 33-2, on May 29, in a rare display of bipartisan unity, the state Senate passed legislation that would legalize s...

It is a record that nobody wants to hold: this month GlaxoSmithKline became the latest entrant into the "billion dollar" fine ...

How viable are federal securities fraud class actions predicated on government investigations and whistleblower lawsuits? By J...

University of Virginia School of Law assistant dean Mary Elizabeth Magill will take over for Larry Kramer this fall. ...

Managing partner of Polsinelli Shughart PC's Los Angeles office, Lisa Greer Quateman, and other attorneys discuss the transiti...

Malibu-based JAKKS Pacific Inc., America's third largest publicly traded toy company, has hired a new general counsel, sources...

Apple Inc. claims Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. owes it more than $2.5 billion in damages over claims the South Korea-based com...

A Tarzana attorney and animal rights activist has scored a partial victory in his quest to secure better living conditions f...

A long-running class action against Ticketmaster alleging it overcharged consumers is the target of about 100 class members wh...

The firm's choice of tech-heavy Santa Monica for its Los Angeles office is consistent with its previous office openings. ...

In six cases last term, the U.S. Supreme Court considered shielding government authorities from liability for allegedly violat...

TPPA will internationalize some of the worst aspects of U.S. IP legislation. By K.J. Greene of Thomas Jefferson School of Law ...

Jurist's 'forced feeding' opinion put spotlight on right-to-die and quality of life issues. ...

Courts of Appeal are split as to whether an order approving a good faith settlement is an appealable final order when there ar...

In the past, the Court of Appeal seemed loathe to label an appeal frivolous. By Jens B. Koepke of Morris Polich & Purdy LL...

Hundreds of judges, commissioners and interested parties across the state have submitted comments overwhelmingly in support of...

Eastman Kodak Co. vowed to appeal a U.S. International Trade Commission declaring one of the key patents in its arsenal invali...

Pillsbury partner Jorge A. del Calvo led the Nicira Inc. deal team in the Palo Alto-based company's $1.05 billion sale to VMWa...

A San Francisco lawyer who protested he was too broke to cough up $350,000 in sanctions for misconduct in a civil rights case ...

Angry graduates suing their law schools over allegedly dubious employment data have now been thrown out of courts in Michigan ...

California lawyers grabbed a share of the legal work generated Monday by the sale of Emeryville-based Peet's Coffee & Tea ...

Cooley LLP announced today the opening of an office in Santa Monica, its first Los Angeles office and fifth in California. ...

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