David R. King, previously vice president and associate general counsel of retail chain Williams-Sonoma Inc., has been promoted...

An authoritative, easy-to-use reference guide for criminal law and procedure cases by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. B...

Dewey & LeBouef LLP and Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC advised on Oracle Corp.'s $1.9 billion buy of Taleo Corp...

The California Diversity Council hosted its 3rd Annual California Diversity & Leadership Conference Feb. 2-3 at the UC Ber...

C enter Theatre Group, a nonprofit theater company based in Los Angeles, held a cocktail reception for the legal community ...

Judicate West mediator gives her heart and soul to the process.

Assigned to a 'floating' calendar in Long Beach, Commissioner Douglas Haigh takes it as it comes.

An age discrimination lawsuit against Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory was delayed this week when an Alameda County Supe...

Indiana-based Barnes & Thornburg LLP are the latest among Los Angeles firms to benefit from the recent turmoil at Rutter H...

Municipal outsourcing offers cities and counties a way to provide services to residents during austere times, but it can carry...

Online users succeed in protecting Internet "freedom" in a rare show of solidarity. By Kevin J. Greene of Thomas Jefferson Sch...

The U.S. Senate and House move to ban insider trading by members of Congress. By Pamela J. Marple and Michael Pusateri of Chad...

Ever wonder why these maxims are codified in our Civil Code? By Joshua S. Hopstone of Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP ...

Laguna Beach and Dana Point city councils voted this week to ban single-use plastic bags, joining roughly 20 other California ...

An 87-year-old man has filed a potential class action against an insurance company, accusing it of refusing to honor thousands...

A consumer group filed a complaint Wednesday demanding that the U.S. Federal Trade Commission block Google Inc. from implement...

Local and federal law enforcement agents in the Bay Area nabbed 27 suspects Tuesday in a large-scale operation targeting suspe...

Orange County's Kidman, Behrens & Tague LLP has shut its doors, citing "business reversals," but has reopened as Kidman La...

Sunnyvale-based chip designer Rambus Inc. and Santa Clara-based graphics chip company Nvidia Corp. resolved all of their lawsu...

A conservative watchdog group has filed several Freedom of Information Act lawsuits related to Department of Energy loan guara...

One of the leaders of Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC's China practice is retiring from the firm next week to join a M...

Northern District U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag delivered on her promise to crack down on white collar crime Wednesday with indic...

Lifting the veil a bit on the government's opaque terrorist watchlist system, a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals panel ruled ...

San Francisco-based Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP is said to be in merger discussions with Houston's Fulbright & Jaw...

General Counsel for Activision Blizzard Inc. Santa Monica ...

A convenient way to track the state Supreme Court's most important civil law cases. By Joseph M. Lipner and BJ Ard of Irell &a...

Highridge Partners and Montgomery Capital Partners added two tenants to its 10-story, 196,630-square-foot office building at 5...

California's voter-approved Proposition 8 same-sex marriage ban cannot stand because it violates the U.S. Constitution's equal...

The state Supreme Court may have laid the foundation for a sea change in asbestos litigation. By William O. Martin Jr., Jules ...

Whether a deadline has passed is not always a black and white issue. By Margaret M. Grignon and Kasey Curtis of Reed Smith LLP...