Foreign companies' recognition that the U.S. Bankruptcy Code is more business-friendly than many local insolvency laws has beg...

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia declined to shed his conservative curmudgeon's persona even as he got d...

As California transitions to a new lethal injection method amid court injunctions and other obstacles that have led it to scra...

Immigration attorneys and State Bar officials are closing in on an agreement on legislation meant to prevent lawyers and other...

Brenda Stevenson had no way of knowing that her book, "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins," published this month, would b...

A man who stole $31.4 million by lying to Vanguard Public Foundation donors deserved his 22-year sentence for misrepresenting ...

When Michele Wein Layne, an 18-year-veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission, became director of the regional office ...

Establishing a special needs trust when a party settles a suit for personal injury damages or a claim for workers' compensatio...

Manufacturers often agree to defend their retail partners in litigation. Are claims against the retailer partners also ...

If we're going to drug test doctors, shouldn't we be testing lawyers, too? By Bradley I. Kramer

A jury in Van Nuys found that Easton-Bell Sports was not liable for brain damage suffered by a rider wearing one of the compan...

Backers minimize ruling that state failed to comply with voters' wishes on train

A roundup of recent California development and lease deals and the lawyers involved.

Litigation over walnut purchases ends in cash and stock deal for shareholders

Lieff Cabraser Heimann & Bernstein LLP partner Jahan C. Sagafi is leaving to open a San Francisco office for New York-base...

The State Bar can't collect attorney fees when it wins an anti-SLAPP motion ridding itself of a lawsuit by a lawyer upset over...

A secret national security program has for years delayed and denied citizenship applications and other immigration benefits re...

Police officers who step past the blue wall of silence that often shields law enforcement misdeeds got strong support Wednesda...

Are we going to continue to pay a small fraction of the workforce a wage so low that they have to rely on government benefits ...

At acceleration trial, expert witnesses testified that a Camry involved in an acceleration crash was both speeding and braking.

After a token increase in funding last month, state Supreme Court Chief Justice Tani G. Cantil-Sakauye has announced a set of ...

If the provisions of California Civil Code Section 1942.4 are met, neither the landlord nor the homeowner's insurance companie...

The wording of the amended statutes may mean that debtors will face new and unanticipated federal and state tax liability due ...

The system is broken. As prices climb ever higher and the bundle becomes ever more unwieldy, programmers continue their rush t...

The prospect of tapping into large known deep water reserves in Mexico may create a gold rush effect because of the certainty ...

Jack Slobodin, a pioneering intellectual property specialist, died earlier this month at the age of 78. He paired his knowledg...

Attorneys in the Southland say Patricia Egan Daehnke brings an enthusiastic, inclusive approach to the post of Los Angeles Cou...

Following in the footsteps of colleague Donna L. Wilson, a BuckleySandler LLP litigator has joined Manatt, Phelps & Philli...

In a state with traffic-choked freeways and counties as large as some Eastern states, the recent budget-driven closures of nea...

Sacks, Ricketts & Case LLP, a small firm founded in June by three female DLA Piper partners, has added three more attorney...