The Daily Journal celebrated 20 years of honoring rising California legal stars with a reception Tuesday night in Santa Monica...

"Tomorrow's Lawyers" provides lawyers and legal educators an account of the issues currently facing the legal profession. Acco...

Former Los Angeles-based Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP partner Edith Ramirez was tapped by President Barack Obama ...

A key Republican U.S. senator's statement that he would not "fight to the death" to block the confirmation of William Orrick I...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor urged state leaders to better emphasize civic education for students at an e...

MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a federal court for permission to revive its trade-secret claims that an appeals court threw out ...

The State Bar has suspended former Nixon Peabody LLP partner David M. Tamman based on his conviction on charges related to hel...

Attorneys for a putative class of California Kmart cashiers filed a motion Wednesday to add two new name plaintiffs to their s...

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP represented Facebook Inc. in its purchase of Microsoft's Atlas Advertiser Suite for an undisclo...

If Los Angeles wants its residents to make intelligent decisions in its elections, then it needs to make serious reforms regar...

Everyone's asking: How do we get the U.S. Supreme Court to read our amicus brief in the Proposition 8 case?

The years to come will not allow "business as usual," so we should now consider dramatic and bold responses to a system in cri...

The Pacific Legal Foundation is demanding public records about whether UC Bekeley and UC Davis consider race and gender in sel...

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

Neither employers nor the plaintiffs' bar perceives Harris' mixed-motive decision as a "big win," and it remains to be ...

Two months after the extension of the PTC, new wind projects - and lawyers - are benefiting from a tax credit that could have ...

Over 100 people die every day in the U.S. from drug overdoses, 60 percent of which are caused by prescription drugs. A lack of...

The FTC released "Green Guides" last year to provide guidance for businesses marketing their products as environmentally frien...

You know the feeling - a valued client calls with a problem in an area of the law where you do not practice. That urgency is e...

In Phoebe Putney, the Supreme Court held that a state's grant of general corporate powers to government entities does n...

On the heels of a near-shutdown that drew national attention to the nation's busiest seaport, the Port of Los Angeles announce...

A federal appellate court Wednesday allowed Guess Inc. co-founder Georges Marciano's creditors to pursue claims against the bu...

A bill that would force holding companies to pay legal costs for patent defendants was re-introduced in Congress on Wednesday.

Clearwire Corp., currently sadwiched between a bidder's war involving Sprint Nextel Corp. and Dish Network Corp., announced We...

A San Diego federal judge gave the green light to a major wind project Wednesday.

Susan C. Alker jumped from Reed Smith LLP to the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn LLP on Wednesday, part of the firm...

A biomedical research nonprofit has failed in its effort to have a $58 million verdict against Pfizer Inc. reinstated.

San Diego Superior Court Judge Lisa A. Foster will retire on Feb. 28 following 10 years on the bench.

Newmeyer & Dillion LLP inked a $6.9 million, five-year lease at 895 Dove Street in Newport Beach with Glenborough Realty T...

One of the oldest attorneys still practicing law in California and a founding partner of what's now Richards, Watson & Ger...