After a slow start, David Thompson said he's 'about to start asserting' himself on the appellate court.

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

New zone allows for majority foreign ownership of certain companies looking to set up shop in China's biggest urban region ...

Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary for Imperva Inc. Redwood Shores ...

Although sound policies are in place and management has the best intentions, issues arise in every workplace. By Emily L. Aldr...

From 1968 through 2012, there were 415,995 civil actions centralized for pretrial proceedings in MDLs, up from 393,676 in 2011...

An apex deponent has been described redundantly as a "corporate officer at the apex of the corporate hierarchy." By Benjamin T...

A 9th Circuit panel on Friday reversed U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles and let go forward a potential class ...

The state's aggressive but so far unsuccessful efforts to fight an order requiring corrections officials to reduce the populat...

Two years after stockpiling patents formerly held by Nortel Networks Corp., a partnership of some of the world's largest elect...

Firms help Navajo Nation and Southern California Edison Co. in Navajo's purchase of a coal mine, among other matters. ...

A new lawsuit joins a recent case against the Agricultural Labor Relations Board. The first resulted in a finding that a labor...

Julie Emede handled child and spousal support issues as an attorney before joining the bench.

The state's trial lawyer lobby argues its ballot initiative to increase noneconomic damages for medical malpractice enjoys pub...

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

John Sugiyama made one of his life's biggest transitions when he became a probate judge.

Judge John W. Kennedy has practiced and presided over criminal law matters his entire career.

Lawsuits arising from social media will only increase - from plaintiffs asserting First Amendment protection to defendants fac...

These days virtually all discovery is e-discovery. By Michael P. Carbone ...

The employee claimed the company took back a job offer because of her pregnancy. ...

Members of Goodwin Procter LLP's Los Angeles office last month participated in the firm's "Build Day," an all-day affair invol...

Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles gave its Legal Excellence Award to the late Sam S. Oh during the aid group's eighth...

Helene Wasserman of labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson PC was appointed chair of the Conference of California Bar...

The Orange County Bar Foundation hosted its 17th annual Shortstop Golf Classic on Oct. 19 at Irvine's Oak Creek Golf Club. The...

James Donato, a San Francisco-based antitrust partner at Shearman & Sterling LLP and Beth Labson Freeman, a San Mateo Supe...

The Sacramento chapter of the Urban Land Institute honored Best Best & Krieger LLP of counsel Joseph E. Coomes Jr. last mo...

An Oakland federal judge said Thursday there was a "pretty strong possibility" that she would issue an injunction against an o...

The Encinitas Union School District program, the parents argued, was rooted in Eastern religion and thereby violated the Estab...

Relying upon a slate of recent U.S. Supreme Court cases over the patent eligibility of naturally occurring phenomena, a federa...

Outgoing Fair Political Practices Commission Chairwoman Ann Ravel was sworn in as the newest member of the six-person Federal ...