The $315 million all cash deal for KAI Pharmaceuticals was reached after a competitive bidding process. ...

Environmentalists sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Tuesday alleging it is not doing enough to protect the imperiled Cal...

Leaders at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP are doing everything they can to retain lawyers who have already announced their intentions...

Since setting its stake in Los Angeles three years ago, Chicago litigation shop Jenner & Block has built a venerable platf...

A report on nonlawyers owning parts of law firms has sparked renewed interest in the the controversial topic and will be mulle...

A federal anti-hacking law cannot be used to criminalize common workplace transgressions of company computer rules, a 9th U.S....

It took Greg Roussel's team at Fenwick & West LLP 54 hours to finish Facebook's largest acquisition to date. ...

After more than a year of courtship, Catherine A. Conway , a management-side employment lawyer best known for helping save Sta...

A federal judge in Santa Ana is poised to dismiss a civil case brought by a billionaire real estate magnate seeking $1.7 billi...

Scrutinizing a stylized leaf and floral pattern textile design, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel concluded Monday tha...

The Internet is the ultimate interstate environment, which can lead to federal preemption of laws governing disputes over cert...

Marijuana-smoking members of an independent chapter of the Native American Church in Hawaii won revival of their suit against ...

The proposals under review by lobbyists for the judiciary and leaders of leading bar organizations focus on upping the basic f...

Three years after its filing, a consolidated product liability suit against Apple Inc. and AT&T Mobility LLC over the spee...

In a legal setback for Google Inc.'s AdWords advertising program, an appellate court panel on Monday vacated part of the Mount...

In a new filing Monday, embattled film financier David Bergstein is seeking his due for the role he played in a 2010 deal to s...

There's at least some evidence suggesting that possessing a gun makes you more prone to view someone else as a threat. By Adam...

Microsoft reached an agreement Monday with AOL Inc. to purchase 800 patents and license an additional 300 patents for $1.056 b...

GreenWave Energy Solutions LLC is weighing the possibility of building a 100-megawatt "wave energy" project off the coast of M...

Parents who end up in court are already stressed; litigation only makes matters worse. By Mark Baer ...

An idea theft trial over the film "The Last Samurai" came to an end Friday when a federal court jury ruled that screenwriters ...

The State Bar moved a step closer Monday to requiring future California lawyers to have practical, hands-on training before t...

Judge Kendall Newman soldiers through settlement conferences until the deal is done.

A roundup of recent M&A and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

The term "old white men" would not be inaccurate to describe the group of people comprising many civil grand juries in Califor...

General counsel for Konami Digital Entertainment Inc. El Segundo ...

Professor, I thank you. By Louis A. Lipofsky ...

Los Angeles is now the third publicly-owned utility in California to offer a so-called "feed-in tariff" program, indicating a ...

Riverside County District Attorney Paul Zellerbach is gearing up to roll out a diversion program in which low-level misdemeano...