As general counsel play a greater role within businesses, some companies have found it important to align the practices of its...

Do not be misled. Even in a "borrower's market," a borrower is at a significant disadvantage vis-a-vis its secured lender. By ...

While the term of the NDA is often heavily negotiated and is important, focusing attention on the term of the NDA may divert a...

Naturally, these two very different approaches to the mediation privilege lead to widely differing results. By Noah B. Steinsa...

Although now a broader test, proving obviousness still requires providing meaningful reasons for modifying or combining the p...

McDermott Will & Emery hired former U.S. Department of Justice deputy associate attorney general A. Marisa Chun to join th...

The U.S. Supreme Court's pro-arbitration ruling in favor of American Express last week hinted at the fate of class-action waiv...

Nordman Cormany Hair & Compton LLP , one of Ventura County's oldest law firms, plans to shut its doors later this summer a...

A federal judge's order requiring the state to move thousands of prisoners due to high risks of Valley Fever could create an a...

Mark Anthony Kadzielski, partner-in-charge of the health law practice for Norton Rose Fulbright LLP's Los Angeles office, is j...

Beverly Hills-based subsidiaries of Australian media company Village Roadshow Ltd. announced the promotion of Kevin P. Berg to...

In the first case of its kind in the state, a Riverside County couple is suing the manufacturer of a brand of electronic cigar...

The largest provider of worker's compensation insurance in California is suing the operator of a Long Beach-based health care ...

Two more lawsuits have been filed against more than 20 financial institutions, which are accused of conspiring to fix benchmar...

A group of former prosecutors seeking success outside the federal government is taking off where a predecessor group left off,...

A reasonable application of the human intervention standard would have resulted in a more balanced result. By Michael H. Ander...

The judicial branch does not have flexibility and resources like other government agencies. As such, it cannot avoid implement...

Last week's opinion Italian Colors came as no surprise to those of us who have closely followed the court's jurispruden...

President Obama has nominated Ann Ravel, chair of the California Fair Political Practices Commission, to serve as a commission...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is enacting layoffs and pay cuts, the firm announced Monday in a firmwide email. ...

Defense attorneys on Monday cheered a U.S. Supreme Court ruling, which held that someone who takes a generic drug cannot sue t...

A major creditor in the San Bernardino and Stockton bankruptcies retained new counsel to represent it in the cases after a jud...

The governor signed a bill allowing bench officers to consider a detailed risk assessment report when setting or denying bail ...

Online search company Google Inc. has confirmed it is working with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in an antitrust inv...

Goodwin Procter LLP hired Grant P. Fondo as a partner in the firm's Menlo Park office for its securities litigation and white-...

Pittsburgh firm Leech Tishman Fuscaldo & Lampl LLC opened its first California office by partnering with local intellectua...

Hermosa Beach-based Virtual Piggy Inc., the first tool to allow online retailers to accept payments from consumers aged 13 and...

Tokyo-based telecommunications company Softbank Corp. appears primed to take a majority stake in Sprint after Dish Network Cor...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center) ...

A state Assembly committee will hear a bill Wednesday that would deny state funding to charter cities that don't require contr...