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

Sen. Charles Grassley, the Iowa Republican who is often critical of what he sees as excessive judicial spending, blasted a fed...

Vice President and General Counsel for Craig Realty Group Newport Beach ...

What started out as a nightmare for the insurance industry turned into an opinion that insurers will now be often citing. By P...

A 2nd District Court of Appeal decision may have changed California personal injury toxic tort case pleading and motion practi...

Ronald Smith's recent accusation that the fault for delays in carrying out death sentences falls on the elected district attor...

Governance methods, operating procedures and protocol that worked when firms had 20, 50, even 70 partners, became increasingly...

A federal judge apparently has agreed to break the seal protecting a lawyer's criminal conviction in order for the State Bar t...

Third quarter venture capital funding in the United States fell 17 percent, yet saw an increase of 23 percent in the number of...

Rite Aid agreed to pay $800,000 in penalties, restitution and investigative costs to deflect charges of false advertising and ...

Non-practicing holding companies, colloquially known "patent trolls," account for a sizable portion of infringement lawsuits f...

Seven Bank's purchase of Los Angeles-based Financial Consulting & Trading International is the latest in a growing trend o...

Federal appellate judges called into question the stunning $269 million in damages a jury ordered The Walt Disney Co. to pay t...

An Alameda County judge appears likely to include plaintiffs' age discrimination claims in one of the state's largest consolid...

Despite a landmark settlement with four hundred lawyers, the Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP estate is still facing a lengthy string o...

Law firms that prevail in lawsuits filed against them cannot recover attorney fees from the opposing party if the firm was re...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLP helped real estate investment trust Kilroy Realty Corp. acquire Columbia Sq...

A brewing California Supreme Court case is expected to determine how local governments can use the images of drivers captured ...

In reality, whether Romney or Obama wins the election, there will be tax increases next year. Lawyers and all others in busine...

The case challenges a university's use of race as one factor for admitting applicants to some of its undergraduate slots and p...

The Obama administration recently announced that immigrants who qualify for deferred status are not covered by Affordable Care...

The latest experiment cooked up in California's laboratory may just be the second largest carbon market in the world. By Willi...

Lawyers on both sides of a long-running class action between Ticketmaster and aggrieved consumers must go back to the drawing ...

Crowell & Moring LLP added three partners to its health care practice group in Los Angeles, in part to adapt to the nation...

The co-owner of the beauty salon where Orange County's worst mass murder occurred last year sued her insurance company Tuesday...

An alleged gang member seeking to have his twin conspiracy convictions thrown out has filed a motion charging that Latinos are...

The State Bar will pay $50 million to buy a new headquarters building in downtown Los Angeles, mostly in cash. The deal could ...

Plaintiffs who sell products with liquid crystal display screens in phones and cameras notched a win Tuesday against several e...

Orange County attorney Stephen K. Chrysler was sentenced Tuesday to 37 months in federal prison for his role in an $8 million ...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP hired a new partner in its IP practice group at the firm's Los Angeles office, in an...