Producers need to be careful in defining the scope of territories granted to distributors, as well as knowing what kind of "di...

What happens to the ability to terminate copyright transfers during divorce? By Ivan Hoffman ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a trial court ruling clearing two police officers and a stun gun manufacturer ...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed timber industry reform legislation Tuesday that includes a limit on government's ability to collect da...

Two parents' effort to hold the maker of a mustache trimmer responsible for their son's death recently fell short after the co...

Leap Motion Inc., a motion-control software and hardware company based in San Francisco, has appointed its first chief legal o...

The State Bar intends to buy a small office building near the downtown Los Angeles Staples Center as its new headquarters in t...

New chess moves in the high technology patent wars played out Tuesday at an oral argument session before a 9th U.S. Circuit Co...

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Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP Los Angeles Litigation and corporate counseling Specialty: advising board

This is the 15th year the Daily Journal has published a list of California's 100 leading lawyers

Yeager submitted a "sham" declaration when he filed an affidavit with the district court providing details he claimed not to r...

If the note is not validly endorsed to the servicer's principal, neither the principal nor its servicing agent can enforce it ...

In some cases, statutory parties may have the right to override and "bump" the parties named in the will and the transfer by w...

Even as the provision of medicine continues to improve, the lack of unity among Americans as to how health care should be mana...

U.S. District Court Judge Rudi M. Brewster, a respected senior jurist who was a hallmark of the Southern District, died Frida...

Sungevity Inc., a residential solar company headquartered in Oakland, has appointed a new general counsel, the company announc...

Papers filed in federal court Monday reveal that Toshiba Corp. reached a $30 million settlement with plaintiffs who allege the...

As a way to better serve its Orange County client base, nationally recognized financial services and government enforcement la...

In a win for Google and its lawyers at Ropes & Gray LLP, a federal judge Friday ruled the Mountain View-based search giant...

Earlier this year, the 9th Circuit handed down an eagerly anticipated decision examining whether a debtor's bankruptcy reorgan...

Unlike copyright and trademark law, which are defined by federal statutes, the right of publicity is a creature of state law. ...

A group of detained immigrants held for more than six months without bond hearings asked a Los Angeles federal judge to grant ...

A judge Monday dismissed a legal challenge brought by the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office seeking to implement a...

In an effort to cut down on costs, the U.S. Department of Justice is planning to consolidate two of its California field offic...

Contra County County judges who allegedly ganged up to fire a commissioner after she unsuccessfully challenged a colleague in ...

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

As both sides of California's death penalty debate battle for votes in the run-up to November's referendum on capital punishme...