The FEHA administrative process gets a makeover. By Margaret Gillespie of Littler Mendelson PC and Phyllis Cheng of the Califo...

For claims you may believe aren't covered, you might just need to think outside the box. By Peter S. Selvin of Raines Feldman ...

While the couple executed a prenuptial agreement, their divorce may not be that simple. By Ty Supancic of The Law Collaborativ...

Courts debate over how the anti-SLAPP statute applies to certain claims against lawyers by their clients.

Two well-known Orange County plaintiffs' law firms have filed lawsuits against the man who allegedly killed eight people last ...

A 9th Circuit panel held Monday that a judicial recommendation on prison housing is not part of a sentence and cannot be appea...

In orders handed down Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court announced two summary reversals and three new cases granted, but it won't...

In one of the largest lease transactions in California in the last decade, DIRECTV Inc. signed a 15-year, 630,000 square-foot ...

In a case involving the owners of an L.A. area restaurant chain, the U.S. Supreme Court heard argument Monday on whether the S...

Former Linklaters managing partner Tony Angel will serve as a global co-chairman and senior partner at DLA Piper after partner...

The plaintiffs claim Pfizer and other companies entered into an illicit agreement that delayed the generic version of choleste...

The 9th Circuit joins other circuits in holding corporations potentially accountable for war crimes. By Richard Kellner and Sc...

Video gamers packed stores Tuesday to get their hands on the third installment of Activision Publishing Inc.'s wildly popular ...

City charter provisions supersede state law on issues of employee pay, a Superior Court judge tentatively ruled Monday setting...

Two doctors filed a lawsuit Monday in federal court in Oakland seeking a declaration that California's medical disciplinary he...

An employment defense litigator with Bingham McCutchen LLP has joined Dickstein Shapiro LLP's Los Angeles office, the firm ann...

After 24 years in office, San Bernardino City Attorney James F. "Jim" Penman has found himself embroiled in one of the state's...

A federal appeals court on Monday dismissed Kent Robert's claim of malicious prosecution against his former employer for its r...

Superior Court Judge Sonoma County (Santa Rosa) ...

Judge Alan Jaroslovsky knows bankruptcy, and he expects lawyers before him to know it, too.

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

As California gears up to distribute funds to local authorities for realigning the prison system, some counties are raising ob...

Vice President and General Counsel of The Cooper Companies Inc. in Pleasanton ...

A former research attorney, Judge Jed Q. Beebe thinks long and hard from the bench.

A reader responds to "Supreme Court sends arbitration case back to state high court." ...

Before converting to a flexible purpose corporation or a benefit corporation, consider how this will affect key relationships....

Are confidentiality agreements really iron-clad? By Carol A. Gefis of Archer Norris PLC ...

Why predictive coding deserves to become the new default in discovery. By Daniel B. Garrie of Alternative Resolution Centers ...

The legal industry added just 400 jobs in the month of October, in keeping with national employment numbers across public and ...

A federal appeals court panel on Friday affirmed a decision that a host of defendants represented by an Irvine-based partner ...