As the state looks to implement legislation controlling the controversial practice of fracking, questions are emerging over ho...

These differing analytical approaches create vastly different results for litigants advancing mixed claims. By Erik Syverson a...

Whether Congress can strike a deal by Monday and avoid a government shutdown is unpredictable. Either way, federal courts in C...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

It turns out that stars really must align in order for a billed hour to ripen into a collected greenback. By Alex Craigie

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

As a first personal injury trial against Toyota wraps up, three upcoming trials shift the focus from whether the automaker sho...

General Counsel of Nexon America Inc. Los Angeles ...

The U.S. Department of Justice warned California courts earlier this year it needs to start providing interpreters for non-Eng...

Hanson Bridgett LLP represented Oracle Racing, the entity behind the United States' winning team, as well as the two main comp...

Firm let go 35 secretaries, following similar moves by Weil Gotshal and others. ...

Administrative Office of the Courts promotes Deborah Brown from within. She takes office on Oct. 1. ...

Judge indicates he'll grant Brinker Restaurant workers class certification for their claim that the company deprived them of m...

The State Bar Foundation has announced it will award scholarships to 22 new law students in California who hail from diverse r...

Framroze Virjee, a partner at O'Melveny & Meyers LLP in Los Angeles, will become the California State University Board of ...

The ruling affirms a judgment totaling more than $10 million in a class action lawsuit brought against the company in 2005. ...

A federal appeals court criticized a district judge in Texas for failing to take a hard look at splitting up a patent lawsuit ...

Plaintiffs' attorneys say companies such as Lyft and Uber are misclassifying drivers as independent contractors. ...

Wenzhuo "Sara" Shen's addition is meant to strengthen the Newport Beach-based firm's work in the Chinese market. ...

The battle over the treatment of California's mentally ill inmates continues next week as attorneys for the prisoners argue fo...

After a tense hearing, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Thomas A. Peterson overruled Los Angeles' demurrer to Ontario's f...

A roundup of recent real estate activity and the lawyers involved.

An opinion issued last week strongly signals the 9th Circuit is hesitant to remove anti-SLAPP protections from parties litigat...

If unions are to be a force in this century they must create a moral imperative supporting fast food and low wage workers. By ...

Plan requires city approval before it's filed with court. ...

The Los Angeles and San Jose school districts are no longer defendants in a lawsuit that seeks to strike down teacher tenure l...

Attorneys say the settlement could pave the way for a higher settlement with the four remaining companies in the lawsuit - App...

A federal judge Tuesday certified a class of people in 22 states who bought televisions or computer monitors that had cathode ...

The tactics employed by hedge funds and other investors to shake up corporate boards have become far more accepted vehicles fo...

Nine months into her assignment as San Francisco County Superior Court's new law and motion judge, attorneys who appear before...