I really wonder how much money from individual taxes is going to pay for judgments or settlements by the LAUSD because of resp...

President Barack Obama can achieve gun control through a treaty. No doubt this would be controversial. By Joseph F.C. DiMento ...

San Francisco has become one of the leaders of an emerging movement, called "electric aggregation," where cities buy cheap bul...

Dry Canyon held that a trial court must find that a business owner had goodwill to lose before the owner is entitled to...

A judicial panel decided this week that California is the right venue for two major class actions, including one accusing a gr...

MGA Entertainment Inc. asked a local court Monday to void last month's preliminary arbitration award of $23 million for unpaid...

Public-private partnerships - projects funded and operated through a joining of government and private sector companies - are ...

San Bernardino County officials are meeting this week to decide their next move after a judge tossed the county's central clai...

A Los Angeles jury is set to hear arguments next week in a hotly contested case in which the parents of a 25-year-old man cont...

Fearing the San Francisco Law Library will be literally homeless come May when its current space is closed for renovations, it...

A former Universal Pictures and Deutsche Bank executive filed a $20 million civil suit Wednesday, alleging two members of the ...

A large class action lawsuit involving allegations a group of electronics companies fixed prices of lithium ion batteries will...

Menlo Park-based Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP lawyers guided clients on two stock offerings and a billion-dollar acquisition,...

The federal civil case filed against Standard & Poor's on Tuesday in the Central District is without doubt one of the more...

Los Angeles lawyer and biofuels entrepreneur Justin Moongyu Lee faces State Bar disicipline for allegedly misappropriating $50...

An advertising technology company leased a 17,800-square-foot building owned by an affiliate of Hackman Capital Partners LLC. ...

While the suit could have been filed in a host of venues, it was brought in Los Angeles because the jurisdiction presented a b...

Attorney General Kamala D. Harris' lawsuit against the McGraw-Hill Companies Inc.'s Standard & Poor's rating services unit...

A broader social context needs to be considered before any regulatory or legislative actions are initiated that narrow access ...

As commercial free and open-source software use transitioned from obscurity to ubiquity, the sophistication of software dilige...

What makes the grant interesting is that Kandy-Kiss is no mere aberration. Rather, it follows other appellate court dec...

The hope for advocates of medical marijuana dispensaries all but disappeared when Justice Goodwin Liu opened up oral argument ...

Trial court judges across the state can take comfort in the fact that the state Supreme Court still seems prepared to endorse ...

Bankruptcy Judge Laura Taylor relishes complex cases and the chance to clear up problems. ...

California could reap nearly $170 million in federal funds for prison medical care over the next four years if it expands Medi...

After seven years of overseeing large, complex mergers and regulating competition at the Federal Trade Commission, J. Thomas R...

A former federal prosecutor joined Winston & Strawn LLP in its San Francisco office this week from Bingham McCutchen LLP. ...

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP represented NuCO2 Inc. and its parent Aurora Capital Group in the $1.1 billion sale of NuCO2 t...

The good news for San Francisco antitrust lawyer Joseph M. Alioto Jr. is that he was tentatively awarded $47 million last week...

Dell Inc. founder Michael S. Dell and Menlo Park-based private equity firm Silver Lake Partners will acquire the Round Rock, T...