Commissioner Brenda Penny relies on experience and insight to provide closure in L.A. probate court

There’s little sweetness to be found in the industry battle between the corn syrup and sugar industries: After nearly 4½ years...

Vice President, Legal, General Counsel and Secretary Plantronics Inc. Santa Cruz ...

Barg Coffin has now lost four partners in the past three months and 11 attorneys in the last year, leaving it with 10 lawyers ...

Gerald E. Heller, co-founder of Comptown Records Inc., sued NBCUniversal and more than a hundred others for using his name and...

Copping to a lack of preparation, Judge Hess pushed back any rulings until next week in Iskanian. ...

A group of unhappy freight truck drivers who filed wage claims against their contractor with the state must arbitrate them, th...

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

The 9th Circuit Tuesday will hear oral arguments in the long-standing fight over the rights to the fictional hero. ...

Firm business lost during the recession from in-house counsel in many areas still remains missing. ...

The State Bar's Board of Trustees has 10 Northern California attorneys to choose from to fill an opening. ...

State transportation officials are ignoring Indian tribes' rights to protect their heritage amid construcion of a $300 million...

A defendant who pointed a laser at an aircraft operated by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department cannot block a criminal...

A victim of the infamous 1976 Chowchilla school bus kidnapping discovered information that may now help one of her kidnappers ...

Santa Cruz Superior Court Judge Paul Burdick is known for keeping his cool in the midst of sensational cases.

Alameda County Judge Mark McCannon has a knack for handling heavy criminal calendars.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

San Diego juvenile dependency Judge Sharon Kalemkiarian balances a protective nature with a sense of understanding.

A proposed mall in the beach town of Carlsbad, popular with city council, is seeing its fast-track approval hit legal and poli...

Most attorneys might not seek out singular expertise in the semantics of sweepstakes and contest law, but it's a skill that Ts...

Neutral Joel Grossman has worked all sides of the entertainment world's spectrum — from A-list celebrities to exotic dancers e...

Controversial measure Proposition 47 is operating "largely as designed and advertised," a Stanford Justice Advocacy Project co...

Patricia Stanton, chair of the firm's real estate practice and partner in charge of the firm's Dallas office, will relocate to...

Palo Alto-based Home Delivery Service announced late Wednesday it hired Ari Staiman as its first vice president of business de...

Terminally ill California residents cannot ask their doctors to give them medication that would speed up their dying, at least...

The Jimi Hendrix Foundation can no longer use the guitarist's name or likeness, a district court finds. ...

A survey from the National Association of Women Lawyers revealed women partnerships increased just 2 percent over the last dec...

State court complaint contains litany of retaliation charges and alleges culture of race discrimination pervades cable TV indu...

General Counsel Patch of Land Inc. Los Angeles ...