Justice David G. Sills, the presiding justice of the 4th District Court of Appeal in Santa Ana for the last 21 years, will ret...

MGA Entertainment Inc. attorney Jennifer L. Keller had just two weeks to prepare when she agreed to represent the toymaker in ...

Equity Residential purchased the Pegasus luxury apartment building in the central business district of Los Angeles for $100 m...

A potential $1 billion case against the University of Southern California for undermining development of a dental implant was ...

Northern District Chief Judge James Ware was thrust into the debate Wednesday over whether his predecessor can show video of t...

San Francisco County Superior Court Judge Richard A. Kramer has been assigned coordination judge for dozens of cases against D...

A class action lawsuit filed Wednesday claims that state prison officials engage in racially discriminatory lockdowns. ...

Attorney General Kamala Harris announced the appointment of several senior staffers on Wednesday. ...

DLA Piper's Sacramento office is scooping up white collar and government investigations boutique Stevens, O'Connell & Jaco...

A 9th Circuit opinion puts a heavy burden on the entities responsible for discharging contaminated stormwater. By Thomas H. Cl...

After overlooking several multi-billion-dollar Ponzi schemes the SEC has revamped its operations, created a new office to snif...

Lawyers soak in a scene straight out of 1960s U.S.A. in Saigon, Vietnam. By David Pasternak of Pasternak, Pasternak & Patt...

A state appellate court has revived a lawsuit against the Los Angeles law firm Girardi & Keese for allegedly misappropriat...

What criminal defenders need to do to preserve their client's bond interests. By Azar Elihu. ...

In an example of the problems created by a vacancy on the state Supreme Court, a Court of Appeal justice was called up Wednesd...

Four months into the 2011 proxy season, focus has shifted dramatically from the say-on-pay frequency vote to the general advis...

An international company that places foreign technology workers in jobs for U.S. clients is being accused of wrongfully making...

A U.S. judge in Santa Ana issued an order Wednesday that revealed for the first time that lawyers for the FBI have been making...

In a major victory for corporate America, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that a California law does not bar arbitratio...

Nossaman LLP Irvine Notable clients: Coalition for a Sustainable Delta, Kern County Water Agency 738,000 acres | Total Squa...

Farella Braun & Martel LLP San Francisco Notable Clients: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Live Nation Worldwide Inc....

Alston & Bird LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Plains All American Pipeline, L.P.; Alameda Corridor Transportation Autho...

Wendel, Rosen, Black & Dean LLP Oakland Notable Client: Port of Oakland 70 acres | Total Square Feet/Acres of Projects ...

Ask nearly any land-use lawyer in California and they’ll tell you without hesitation: developing a project in California is mo...

Many believe that real estate appraisers are retained to achieve favored results and are confused and angered when those expec...

Among the many lessons to be learned from the recent real estate downturn, probably the most important one is the simplest: It...

The court of appeals in Greenwich S.F., LLC v. Wong (190 Cal.App.4th 739 (2010) recently addressed for the first time the issu...

Upcoming changes to lease accounting rules will have significant business and legal implications for all companies renting com...

Latham & Watkins LLP Los Angeles Notable Clients: Westfield Group, Loyola Marymount University, Pepperdine University, A...

Best Best & Krieger LLP Irvine Notable Clients: City of Lake Forest, city of Aliso Viejo, Helix Irrigation District 1,3...