Santa Ana-based Stearns Lending Inc. this week announced the appointment of a new chief legal officer. She most recently serve...

The impending termination of alternative dispute resolution offices in Los Angeles County Superior Court could mean a signific...

On March 11, the Los Angeles County Bar Association presented its 2013 Outstanding Corporate Counsel Award at the Millennium B...

American Friends of The Hebrew University awarded the national Scopus Award to Glaser Weil Fink Jacobs Howard Avchen & Sha...

Lawyers by day, rock stars by night. That was the theme last Friday, March 1st, when seven bands made up of legal professiona...

Kimberly Sheffield Deck was honored as the first ever recipient of the Warren Knight JAMS Peacemaker Award in January at the H...

Environmental groups concerned over the role of pesticides in falling bee populations sued the federal Environmental Protectio...

Michael A. Hestrin, a Riverside County senior deputy district attorney, announced Thursday that he will challenge incumbent Pa...

The Anti-Defamation League held its annual Helene & Joseph Sherwood Prize for Combating Hate luncheon and awards ceremony ...

Whether it's because of politics, small bench numbers or isolation, the Eastern Division of the federal court's Central Distri...

Courtrooms in the Northern District will close once a month through the end of this fiscal year due to federal budget cuts kno...

An Alameda Superior Court judge accused of having embezzled more than $1.5 million from a 97-year-old neighbor has agreed to i...

Indeed, our level of capability probably not only drops a few rungs on the ladder from Einstein, but is perhaps closer to that...

Court officials in the Central District of California announced to judges and court employees on Friday that they will reduce ...

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

Intertrust Technologies Corp. filed a lawsuit in federal court in Oakland Wednesday claiming Apple Inc. is infringing 15 of it...

Legislation expected this month would give the State Bar new authority to pursue the unauthorized practice of law, including c...

In a 7-1 ruling, the Supreme Court found that the federal Environmental Protection Agency acted reasonably when it decided tha...

Lawyers say James R. Ritchie brings a lenient air to court but is willing to make tough calls.

General Counsel of Murcor Inc. Pomona ...

Courts hate to hear that they aren't working hard. But a veteran appellate court justice in San Francisco says he perceives th...

A State Assembly subcommittee Tuesday unanimously shot down a budget proposal from the governor's office that the Legislative ...

The bankruptcy battle between San Mateo-based plaintiffs' attorneys Terry O'Reilly and his former colleague Michael Danko will...

The state attorney general's office can sue former city of Bell officials, convicted of stealing public funds by taking excess...

New York-based Africa Israel USA, a real estate development company, sold the Rialto Building, a 135,485-square-foot, nine-sto...

Santa Monica-based Beats Electronics LLC, best known for their Beats By Dre headphones, appointed its first general counsel, ...

Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised Cole Holdings Corp. in American Realty Capital Properties Inc.'s $9 billion offer to acqui...

A German hedge-fund manager on the lam for more than five years was formally indicted Wednesday by the U.S. attorney's office ...

Last week, the 9th Circuit affirmed a decision which affects environmental insurers and, perhaps inconspicuously, also impacts...

Civil Code Section 1717, which makes one-way fee-shifting provisions mutual in actions on the contract, will not save such a p...