The recent flurry of law firm mergers has in-house attorneys talking about whether these newly formed relationships are as goo...

A major medical device company agreed Monday to pay the U.S. government $23.5 million to settle a pair of lawsuits accusing it...

The government's secret campaign against websites it accuses of being primarily devoted to infringing activities will get a ra...

Online shopping will never be the same again - prepare now.

When are owners who open up their property to the public for recreational use immune from liability? By Winston S. Keh of Murp...

Resolve to comply with new employment laws for the New Year. By Wendy E. Lane of Rutter Hobbs & Davidoff Inc

An Orange County jury found Thursday that a once-successful car dealer who complained he was unfairly dumped by Nissan as the...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

Littler Mendelson PC added Rebecca M. Aragon as shareholder. She will split her time between its Los Angeles and Century City ...

A two-week civil trial featuring two Hollywood actors on the jury and a former state Supreme Court justice on the defense team...

Even if the U.S. Supreme Court announces Monday that it will review Arizona's controversial immigration law, legal experts sai...

Davis Polk & Wardwell LLP and Kirkland & Ellis LLP helped sell Sunnyvale-based Blue Coat Systems Inc. to private equit...

Airbnb Inc., a San Francisco-based vacation rental share service, recently hired its first general counsel.

The Mexican-American Bar Association and four other groups are expressing increasing frustration with Sen. Dianne Feinstein fo...

Giving the unemployed protected class status will cause more problems than it solves. By Janice P. Brown and Suzanne K. Roten ...

When the Riverside district attorney's office caught wind that Mowbray's Tree Service Inc. was making fraudulent workers' comp...

A Riverside litigator sued his former Van Nuys-based workers' compensation defense firm on Friday, claiming it enforced a mini...

Law schools are under fire for their students' employment rates nine months after graduation, but some people who struggle in ...

The battles over government seizure of domain names have taken different turns in two separate cases.

A two-year study measuring how long it takes judges to handle various types of court cases has identified a need for 345 new j...

Mediation could be the best environment for environmental law claims. By Cary Lowe of the National Conflict Resolution Center

Four years after the television writers settled a strike against entertainment studios, the Writers Guild of America, West is ...

Welcome to the new reality of family law in California. By Fred Silberberg of Silberberg & Ross

Citing unspecified personal reasons, Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Carl J. West has announced his early retirement f...

Today is the last day on the job for at least 5 percent of the State Bar's employees, who either have accepted a buyout or are...

Renewable energy projects on Native American tribal lands may begin accelerating soon, thanks to new rules proposed by the Uni...

A federal indictment accuses a former corporate partner at Nixon Peabody of altering documents to conceal misconduct by a clie...

The 9th Circuit speaks out about securities class certification. By William F. Sullivan, Peter Y. Cho and Timothy D. Reynolds ...

For too long, legal writing has been riddled with redundancies. By Hirbod Rashidi of the University of California, Riverside

For the eighth year running, divorce lawyer Stacy D. Phillips invited 200 women leaders from the legal, financial, nonprofit, ...