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

General Counsel of the Sacramento Municipal Utility District Sacramento ...

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Plaintiffs' attorneys are zeroing in on an obscure cancer-causing chemical that has contaminated hundreds of drinking water so...

At a time when four Asian Americans are sitting on the California Supreme Court, I can't help but think about the potential ap...

The law is relatively unclear regarding an employer's use of information from obtained from an employee's social media account...

Last month, the Court of Appeal was charged with answering this question. By Felix Shafir of Horvitz & Levy LLP ...

The City of Angels has historically been a difficult place for out-of-state law firms to find firm footing. Over the past thre...

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP has established a firm-wide group focusing on water rights, hydropower and other legal iss...

Two Republican congressmen on Friday lambasted the General Services Administration over what they called "questionable plans" ...

A deputy general counsel for Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. is departing the company to rejoin the Los Angeles office of O'M...

The state Administrative Office of the Courts is working to consolidate its facilities to save more than a million dollars ann...

In yet another chapter of a lengthy legal battle, MGA Entertainment Inc. has filed a cross-complaint against four insurances c...

SEC charges Eddie Murray and two others in connection with insider trading case that felled former Angels player Doug DeCinces...

The federal law on class actions boomeranged Friday when appellate judges, baffled in a wage-and-hour case by the state's conv...

Attorneys for Apple Inc. wrapped up testimony against Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Friday with witness after witness who re...

After a dramatic drop in California's prison population over the first six months of realignment, the reduction in inmates hou...

Google Inc. funded and leveraged a network of commentators to influence public opinion during a high-profile patent infringeme...

Justice Richard D. Fybel dedicated himself to the bench to honor his parents' Holocaust escapes.

A New Jersey lawyer filed a surprise brief late last week arguing that the California Supreme Court shouldn't admit undocument...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP added Bruce Tovey as partner in Century City and Mark Easton as partner in Los Angeles.

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In a bitter clash on Thursday, a sharply divided 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel issued a strong endorsement of the Mi...

Book review: "Full Circle: A True Story of Murder, Lies and Vindication" By Maurice Possley ...

Two fans of Ayn Rand are slugging it out in federal court over each party's use of one of Rand's famous characters in connecti...

We Are The Champions: Champions were crowned as the Landau Lawyers League wrapped up its Summer Softball League. ...

People may never agree on the fundamentals of marriage, but they have an opportunity to reach consensus by thinking more close...

The new Masters Division of the Orange County Bar Association gave its Legends of the Law award to Louis J. Knobbe, the founde...

This week, the San Diego Superior Court, district attorney’s office and public defender’s office, worked with various public a...

At the Annual Project SELF Recognition Dinner on Aug. 1, 269 members of the Orange County legal community celebrated the r...