Publicly traded drug giants have taken an interest in the high-risk-high-reward game of very early stage drug development. ...

In the nonfiction legal thriller "The Price of Justice," bestselling author Laurence Leamer traces the 14-year struggle of two...

A judge is set to hear arguments in a case in which a global debt insurer claims California's redevelopment dissolution law im...

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

San Joaquin County Superior Court hasn't set a trial date for the more than 800 small claims cases filed since September, and ...

General Counsel of Conceptus Inc. Mountain View ...

The California housing boom that occurred in the mid-2000s means that hundreds of thousands of homes are about to reach the en...

This summons requires Wells Fargo to hand over data on U.S. taxpayers with accounts at Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Firs...

While the court reached the right result, it omitted to analyze recent U.S. Supreme Court authority on a key issue. By Maytak ...

A lawsuit filed by Craigslist Inc. against several technology companies that aggregate and republish its online advertisements...

Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky and Popeo PC is in the process of scooping up intellectual property partner Paul Davis from Go...

Asia's biggest drugmaker won an unexpected victory Tuesday when a judge overturned last week's ruling that its blockbuster dia...

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc. has agreed to purchase teen-oriented YouTube channel AwesomenessTV for roughly $33 million in ca...

Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP helped Warren E. Buffett's comglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc. with its $2.05 billion purchase...

A major push to reform a state environmental law that has spurred thousands of lawsuits stalling development projects reached ...

New York-based Sorgente Group of America Corp. purchased the Santa Monica Clock Tower for $34.3 million from a private investor.

A recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling put an end to an interpretation of the Alien Tort Statute that for the past 30 years has al...

The fight over regulating fracking is heating up in Sacramento as the Legislature has introduced a raft of bills proposing eve...

A new appellate decision clarifies the duties owed by insurance brokers to third-party claimants. By Robert J. McKennon and Vi...

This generally results in fewer people being included in the representative action (though it might not mean less exposure giv...

No one expects Congress to approve additional Central District judgeships, so we are forced to do more with less. One solution...

In response statewide cuts to court budgets, the Orange County Superior Court announced a round of courthouse changes on Tues...

A state appellate court Tuesday ordered a new trial in a decade-long scuffle over unpaid legal fees after a Santa Monica attor...

The bank settles a suit with shareholders of a defunct medical financing company which turned out to be an elaborate Ponzi sch...

A Los Angeles appellate panel on Tuesday held that it was error for a trial judge to admit evidence of the full amounts billed...

Two bills aimed at protecting immigrants in light of workplace abuses were unanimously approved by the Senate Judiciary Commit...

A request by San Diego and Ventura County superior courts for the Administrative Office of the Courts to modify their electron...

The defense team for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who allegedly bombed the Boston Marathon two weeks ago, landed a renowned death penalt...

The State Bar has slashed the time it spends to move discipline cases through the system almost in half since 2010, according ...

When it was created in 1983, the founders had plans to make the firm into the nation's leading corporate restructuring boutiqu...