This third installment criticizing the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct focuses on the overexpansion of informed cli...

The latest transactions by California attorneys.

A federal judge will hear arguments today on who should be appointed lead counsel in securities litigation against Toyota over...

Vice President and General Counsel of Cadence Design Systems Inc.San Jose ...

A Nevada lawmaker has introduced federal legislation that would provide short term tax incentives as a way to promote reinvest...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton has unfrozen associate salaries nearly two years after placing raises on hold. ...

The firm known as Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro for the past 30 years will change its name to Jeffer Mangels Butler &...

In the weeks since Sacramento stalwart McDonough Holland & Allen announced it would wind down operations, firms around the...

Regional housing authorities would be required to replace every affordable residential unit that gets demolished or becomes un...

A lawyer who lost his right to practice and lost a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit for allegedly defrauding homeowners wantin...

Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Peter P. Espinoza may not be out of the running for Public Defender after all thanks to a mot...

With discrimination class actions on the rise, employers are wise to keep their pay and promotion practices as balanced as pos...

Will GM, Ford and Chrysler regain their status as the industry's top automakers or will they slip into irrelevance? By Jonatha...

An appellate specialist who has spent the last year trying to topple a client's sexual assault conviction by attacking a jury ...

A cab driver fires one shot after a passenger assaults him. Can the liability insurer of the cab company deny coverage by argu...

Construction magnate Ronald Tutor and a group of investors have acquired Miramax Films from the Walt Disney Co. for $660 milli...

Although the U.S. Supreme Court issued three rulings last term trimming defendants' protections during police interrogations, ...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

This second installment in opposition criticizes the proposed new Rules of Professional Conduct as suffering from wordiness an...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Judge David A. Hoffer's career prosecuting white-collar criminals helped prepare him for his new role of reforming juvenile of...

California attorneys are hammering out a significant amount of case law on a high-profile issue: class action waivers in manda...

Critics of Proposition 14, the open primary initiative approved by voters this past June, filed a lawsuit in San Francisco Sup...

The Environmental Protection Agency Thursday rejected state and industry group petitions to back down from its finding that gr...

Dewey & LeBoeuf lawyers in East Palo Alto did another deal for online social game developer Zynga Game Network, this time ...

A man whose family perished when a Marine Corps jet crashed into their home has filed suit in federal court against the United...

A New York congressman introduced a bill Thursday that would remove the legal blockades preventing the Port of Los Angeles fro...

Armenian descendants living in the United States sued the Republic of Turkey in federal court in Los Angeles Thursday, seeking...

Three federal court security guards will be allowed to go forward with many of their claims that they were retaliated against ...

Disability rights advocates are taking aim at local law enforcement agencies for allegedly failing to provide qualified interp...