When Democrats won a two-thirds majority in both houses last year, it looked like liberal politics would dominate California's...

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

Los Angeles real estate investment manager Hudson Pacific Properties purchased four Seattle commercial properties from San Fra...

Nathanael Cousins taps into the restraint of the nation's forefather in his approach to judging.

Attorney General Kamala Harris is revamping the role of the state's solicitor general, endowing the position with wide influen...

Commentators suggested that IP issues were not likely to rise to prominence again anytime soon because the America Invents Act...

Privacy as a legal right was created in the obfuscated, ill-advised, divided U.S. Supreme Court opinion of Katz v. United Stat...

As the Zimmerman trial enters its third week, consider how many of us are aware not only of what is going on in the courtroom ...

Plaintiffs would be emboldened to forum shop were the 9th Circuit to reverse course after 14 years and refuse to apply the ant...

AB 788 proposes to allow purchasers of court transcripts to make paper copies for parties involved in the case. ...

George Souliotes, a 72-year-old man who two federal judges rulled was "actually innocent" of murder and arson convictions, was...

Monster Beverage Corp. has been hit with a second wrongful death lawsuit blaming the Corona-based company's energy drinks for ...

With the help of a San Diego patent litigator, a German company took a major step toward overturning a $23.5 million patent in...

Former paralegal Ana Lissa Reyes of San Leandro pleaded guilty in Oakland federal court Tuesday to mail fraud and tax evasion,...

Plaintiffs' attorney Joseph M. Alioto has dodged a $28 million bill, for now. A federal judge has ruled that her court is not ...

The US high court's vicarious liability decision in June not only narrowed the definition of "supervisor," it was the second t...

Lawyers for a Guatemalan housepainter who was beaten by an unlicensed security guard successfully persuaded a jury that the se...

As same-sex advocates celebrated their breakthrough win over Proposition 8, lawyers promoting the controversial practice of co...

Prominent labor law firms Weinberg Roger & Rosenfeld PC and Leonard Carder LLP are helping drive the contract dispute betw...

The past several decades have seen a paradigm shift in the American criminal justice system, a change that has led to stiffer ...

Just because you label something "fiction" does not mean it necessarliy is. By Mark Litwak ...

Considering that there were 14.4 million sold in the U.S. in 2012, we have officially reached the era where more vehicles are ...

As a result of the ACA, school districts may be forced to limit substitute opportunities and forgo a major operational benefit...

The Supreme Court's holding suggests that if a corporate officer agrees to a voluntary interview and, thereafter, declines to ...

The state Supreme Court formally placed prominent Los Angeles litigator Pierce H. O'Donnell on suspension based on convictions...

The recent settlement of a lawsuit between the Los Angeles city attorney's office and Deutsche Bank could cast doubt on a leg...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. and Mercury Public Affairs agreed to settle an unfair labor practice charge filed by Warehouse Workers Un...

California's tough, three-day bar exam should be shortened to two days, the State Bar panel that oversees the test declared Fr...

With many predicting the eventual, widespread use of unmanned aircrafts, or drones, in California airspace, one state senator ...

Perkins Coie LLP brought labor and employment partner Jonesh G. Daryanani on board as a partner in the Los Angeles office Mond...