Californians voted twice to dial back a throw-away-the-key approach to criminal justice, but the effort has hit a snag that on...

Golden State Water Co. lost an appeal Tuesday that sought to stop the small city of Ojai from bringing in another water utilit...

A lawsuit filed by retired wrestlers seeking to hold World Wrestling Entertainment Inc. accountable for concussion-related hea...

General Counsel and Assistant Secretary California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory Pasadena ...

A recent article about pro per parties is sadly based on assumptions not supported by the realities of today's litigants. By K...

Startups invariably have to deal with licensing issues as they may need to license-in technologies to have a baseline from whi...

It is not often we see the creation of a new industry that has the potential to impact people's lives to the degree that biosi...

Gail J. Standish, until now a patent ligitation partner at Winston & Strawn LLP, will sit in the court's Western Division....

Dean of Loyola Law School from 1991 to 2000, McLaughlin wrote a comprehensive history of the school as well as several histori...

The California Public Utilities Commission is holding a hearing today In Los Angeles to assess public sentiment on Comcast Cor...

A recent New York Times report found that big firms are refusing to accept cases where they would have to argue that marriage ...

In a clash over law firms' alleged "scorched earth" litigation tactics to stall excessive force claims by Los Angeles County J...

U.S. District Judge Michael W. Fitzgerald took issue with plaintiffs not telling him when exactly company's notorious ex-leade...

The court granted plaintiffs 30 days to find one unifying theory on how 46 separate mortgages qualify for a joint mass tort ag...

Jeffrey L. Bornstein, one of San Francisco's top white collar criminal defense litigators, has joined Rosen Bien Galvan & ...

Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP launched a maritime law team with the addition of four attorneys from Severson & Werson as pa...

LA Superior Court Judge Frederick Shaller tackles his busy docket with a vigorous work ethic.

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

Under pressure from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, more companies are finding it is difficult to balance their d...

Given the diverging opinions on this issue, unless and until the state Supreme Court weighs in, there is likely to be continue...

Over the last decade, the U.S. Supreme Court has not hid its belief that the patent system is out of balance and needs to be r...

Gone are the days when, rather than litigate, breweries would come together and brew beers such as the aptly named "Collaborat...

On April 2, the 1st District Court of Appeal clarified the "sham guaranty" defense, an important arrow in the quiver of many g...

Next month, State Bar trustees are likely to conclude that the bar should "study the design of a pilot program" that could lea...

Appellate panel rules that consumers' case against cosmetics maker should be put on hold, not dismissed, while awaiting guidan...

Jerry A. Ramsey, a Los Angeles lawyers best known for his passion for trial advocacy and his defense and plaintiffs work in in...

Attorneys in Orange County have rushed to the defense of Marc Kelly, the judge whose decision to sentence a convicted child mo...

Federal courts received a record 1,453 patent lawsuits during the first three months of this year, surpassing the 1,275 lawsui...

WilmerHale hosts robot block party in Palo Alto

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