UCI School of Law Dean Erwin Chemerinsky has been appointed to hold the school's recently endowed chair in First Amendment law.

A federal appellate court has stepped into a war over whaling being waged in the distant Southern Ocean off Antarctica, callin...

Susan C. Alker will jump from Reed Smith LLP to the Los Angeles office of Winston & Strawn LLP on Wednesday, according to ...

Newly expanded federal privacy regulations that restrict how kids younger than 13 can be tracked and marketed online will be e...

Discipline prosecutors want to abandon detailed complaints in favor of stripped-down "notice pleadings," but the defense bar i...

Angry Facebook users who sued over the site's now-defunct Beacon feature got a raw deal in a $9.5 million class action settlem...

Legislators, including the head of the California Senate, have introduced a flood of bills to reform the state's landmark envi...

With this ruling, the question is settled that remainder beneficiaries do have standing to seek redress of harm to their inter...

In this environment it is surprising that so few lawyers, whether operating as sole proprietors or in small to medium-size fir...

Veteran litigator Terry C. Leuin , a partner at Nossaman LLP , died on Feb. 18 after battling cancer. He was 66.

A federal judge issued sanctions ruled the L.A. Sheriff's Department failed to preserve certain videotapes of deputies removin...

The California Supreme Court has appointed Justice Ignazio J. Ruvolo, presiding justice of the Court of Appeal, 1st District C...

State officials "buried" a report by a consultant who was critical of the prison system's suicide prevention program, accordin...

If an attorney or witness in a case is "friends" with the judge on a social media website like Facebook, the judge should cons...

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

A 9th Circuit motions panel granted an emergency request to keep Marin County's Drakes Bay Oyster Co. open for business while ...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a Silicon Valley project engineer convicted of stealing trade secrets from his former empl...

A ruling from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals gives the retirees' association a second chance to prove the benefits in questi...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added two lateral partners this week in its San Francisco and Los Angeles offices.

Lenders now may be liable for unreasonably failing to reveiw a borrower's request for a loan modification. By Alfred M. Clark

If a matter has not been finalized with a judgment and a spouse dies, then the parties are treated as if they are still marrie...

The University of La Verne College of Law announced its new dean Monday, more than a year after its former head resigned amid ...

Jockeying over class action venue issues got the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' attention Monday as auto purchaser plainti...

San Francisco's South of Market Area is a bustling district home to a burdgeoning number of emerging growth companies, and lar...

In his timely article, Alex Craigie offers sound, economical suggestions for proceeding with litigation in our state's increas...

Perhaps the State Bar instead needs to set aside the legal fiction that a law degree and a passing grade on the bar exam are s...

The adage, "failing to plan is planning to fail," certainly sticks when it comes to business succession planning. By Michael B...

With less than 10 months remaining before the more salient and highly publicized provisions take effect, it appears that healt...

The objective of this article is to review the rules that allow defendants to have arrest records sealed and destroyed under P...

An Oakland man walked out of prison Friday after serving nearly seven years in prison for a crime he did not commit.