Twenty-five years ago, on Nov. 9, 1989, the Berlin Wall came tumbling down. By James Cooper ...

Permitting wireless sites has always been tricky business for municipalities. Wireless consumers are constituents, but the app...

Two recent lawsuits brought by local prosecutors using a public nuisance legal theory - one concerning lead paint, the other o...

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP advised longtime client Hellman & Friedman on the formation of its latest fund. The San...

As companies move more of their legal work in-house, does it make sense for company counsel to move themselves into the courtr...

A Los Angeles County judge abused his discretion in denying class certification to employees of Joe's Crab Shack Holdings Inc....

UCLA's Title IX compliance officer will now oversee the entire California State University system's sexual assault response, C...

Lenard G. Weiss of Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP has been working to help four former servicemen maneuver through the bene...

Shareholder advocacy groups are calling for greater transparency into how companies use nanomaterials in their products, packa...

California courts have struggled for years to collect all the fines they are owed. Now, a new report by the legislative analys...

Gordon P. "Gordy" Erspamer, a longtime Morrison & Foerster LLP litigator and renowned advocate for military veterans' righ...

Vexatious litigants can pursue an appeal without court permission so long as they are the defendants in the case, a court of a...

The sad truth is that automakers face little deterrent from U.S. authorities to correctly represent their vehicles' fuel econo...

Law firms have been stepping up their efforts to organize pro bono activities in support of returning military personnel. But ...

After four years of dormancy, the heirs of John Steinbeck are ready to go back to court, with two competing lawsuits filed in ...

Alameda County Judge Frank Roesch decides tough cases but is most satisfied when settling them.

A roundup of recent transactions and the lawyers involved.

San Diego-based ecoATM has 1,500 locations nationwide and scores in California, but its model has come under scrutiny because ...

Judge Paul Herbert knows how to talk diametrically opposed parties into unlikely settlements.

Federal, state and local governments are being forced to revisit their procedures for handling individuals traveling into thei...

It sounds like an easy way to fill budget holes: let a few medical marijuana dispensaries open to serve the over 1 million act...

Jones Day partner Bruce S. Bennett can finally get a good night's sleep after a federal judge on Friday approved Detroit's Cha...

Defense attorneys representing a pharmacist accused of participating in a massive conspiracy to sell painkillers illegally fil...

In California, the legal industry lost nearly 2,600 in September from a month earlier, according to the latest data available....

Fenwick & West LLP was awarded $820,642 in fees for San Francisco-based communication application Voxernet LLC after a fed...

Guidelines for disciplining lawyers may get a slight overhaul, as State Bar leaders voted Friday to gather public input on pro...

In a petition filed with the Sacramento County Superior Court, the Criminal Justice Legal Foundation called for swift action b...

Legal analysts say the Disney subsidiary's subpoena of Google about an "Avengers" movie trailer leaker is a rare move. ...

Before the tenure of departing Attorney General Eric Holder, the use of wiretaps was generally relegated, as if by gentlemen's...

After being hit with seven CEQA lawsuits this summer, the state is looking to the federal government to declare the massive ra...