Opening statements began Thursday in the trial of TCW and its ex-star investor Jeffrey Gundlach with each side in the multi-mi...

DLA Piper has been a very active participant in Stand Down for several years, and this year, more than 40 volunteers provided ...

Many California trial courts are still sorting out how they will absorb stunning budget cuts approved by state judicial leader...

The complicated case of developing regulations for California's Green Chemistry Law. By Gene Livingston of Greenberg Traurig L...

State Supreme Court nominee Goodwin Liu's confirmation hearing has been set for 3 p.m. on Aug. 31, the court announced Wednesd...

Bingham McCutchen LLP, an international firm focused on financial services and technology, is expanding its tax practice to Ca...

Honest lawyers in California could soon be called upon to pay more for the transgressions of their crooked peers, thanks to in...

Law schools will soon have to be much more upfront about where graduates are working - and whether they're on the law school's...

Lessons to be learned from disputes over intellectual property rights in body art. By Spencer C. Martinez of Ropers Majeski Ko...

A Mill Valley man serving life without parole in federal prison for producing LSD by the kilo can force the government to rele...

A 2nd District Court of Appeal panel on Wednesday reversed a superior court judge who ordered Toyota Motor Corp. to compel fiv...

A team of Irvine-based attorneys with Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP won a verdict for their client, Schindler Elevator C...

Beginning in 2012, retailers will be required to report their credit card receivables for the calendar year and on a monthly b...

A former law clerk at Brayton Purcell LLP is suing the firm for failing to pay him overtime. The outcome of the case could set...

Reed Smith LLP swung open its doors this month to two entertainment partners from the West Los Angeles office of Manatt, Phelp...

Bradley J. Butwin, the New York-based head of litigation at O'Melveny & Myers LLP, was named Wednesday to lead the firm. ...

When magistrate judges recommended habeas relief in three separate cases of prison inmates they believed deserved release or a...

Each of the state's 55 bar investigators will have to boost by 50 percent the number of cases closed or moved on to prosecutor...

Commissioner Kirtland Mahlum lets lawyers know how he plans to rule so they can maneuver.

A hotel company secured an $11 million loan for two Carlsbad hotels. The properties include the 41-room Beach View Lodge and t...

While most segments of real estate are still sagging in the sour market, lawyers say one area is jumping by leaps and bounds a...

Insurers fail to acknowledge that a false marking claim is a form of false advertising that triggers coverage. By David A. Gau...

Thousands of employees of financial institutions with low-level misdemeanors will soon be terminated or placed on unpaid leave...

Restrictions increase in light of the looming dissolution of redevelopment agencies. By Amy E. Freilich and William F. Delvac ...

Tony Toranto recently helped client NRG Energy Inc. iron out a series of complex legal issues to help push forward one of the ...

In the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court decision ATT v. Concepcion, a federal judge in Santa Ana has sent to arbitration a class...

Tim Tosta had to think creatively to get a $350 million state-of-the-art commercial campus off the ground in low growth Menlo ...

Chinese reverse mergers made up nearly a quarter of all securities class action cases filed in the first half of the year, acc...

Timothy Alger, one of Google Inc.'s deputy general counsels, is stepping away from in-house work to take a job as partner in P...

Edward "Doc" Merrill guided State Street Bank in negotiating a highly complex restructuring of hundreds of millions of dollars...