A San Francisco federal court will have to balance protecting companies' IP rights and the the rights of those companies' indi...

Lawyers at the former Los Angeles affiliate of Marc Dreier's firm have decided to split up. A group that joined the firm a yea...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has nabbed another Mayer Brown partner, this one for its Silicon Valley intellectual p...

Former Los Angeles gang prosecutor Kevin McCormick finds the Sacramento bench a good fit, and lawyers on both sides of the ai...

Judge Xapuri B. Villapudua grew up in Stockton and enjoys her ties to the community. ...

While the legal industry was rattled as the economy drifted into recession and then a shock, intellectual property attorneys f...

Federal agents raided Julia and B.J. Davis' hope in August 2005. The couple have filed a lawsuit accusing the government of re...

Bratz and Barbie will share toy aisle space a while longer. ...

A. David Kagon, the lawyer who defeated the first so-called "palimony" suit, filed against actor Lee Marvin in 1976, has died....

If companies are capable of reducing personnel without making layoffs, they can look to less draconian options to save on cost...

Pamela Dunn, a noted Pasadena appellate attorney who won a surprise victory in a recent arbitration case, has died. She was 59...

Let us all hope that 2009 ushers in a new era of American confidence, writes Mark A. Neubauer. - Forum Column ...

A recent appellate decision confirmed that developers of raw land cannot recover anticipated future development profits by cha...

One month after a crowded Metrolink train collided with a freight train during rush hour, killing 25 commuters and injuring 13...

The controversy over the new housing density law involves the two competing interests of affordable housing development and lo...

Santa Fe Springs defense attorney Brian Oxman is known for representing celebrity clients, including (briefly) Michael Jackson...

Some $96 million in settlement funds from a smokeless tobacco class action in California is being held up by a lone objector. ...

Lawyers from Latham & Watkins can breathe easier after finishing a deal worth up to $900 million between London-based phar...

Los Angeles-headquartered Northrop Grumman Corp. has selected a Sheppard Mullin partner as the company's corporate vice presid...

In September, Jose Ledesma was sent to a Southern California immigration detention center, marking the second time in three ye...

Gale E. Kaneshiro's detailed guides help simplify complex felony cases and draw praise from lawyers. ...

A rapidly constricting law firm job market has prompted top law schools such as Harvard to aggressively shop their students to...

Some legal observers said they expect President Obama to steer sharply away from pre-emption through his policy directives, an...

In a blow to Chicago-based Mayer Brown's white-collar practice in Los Angeles, prominent litigators Bryan Daly and Chuck Krein...

The 1st District Court of Appeal recently issued a wakeup call to attorneys: You need to add techniques from the worlds of bus...

Lawyers are often characterized as vultures — and those who scrounge for business following a disaster make that stereotype mu...

Read more about the lawyers who shaped the California legal landscape this year. ...

To put it mildly, 2008 was not a rosy one for the legal industry. Sub-prime woes and the credit crunch tempered the demand for...

It is cruel and unusual punishment to make a Los Angeles man convicted of attempted rape serve 28 years to life for failing to...

A recent appellate case disproves what is often called the "CSI effect" — the perception that DNA evidence is infallible, writ...