Internet retailers prepare to square off over the "Amazon tax," which will collect a sales tax from customers in California. B...

Forty percent of Americans now surf the Internet while watching their favorite shows. As the indusry adapts, new multi-platfor...

More than 145 cities and counties passed laws that place quotas on real estate developers to ensure large projects included lo...

As the Los Angeles County Bar Association's first openly gay president, Eric A. Webber of Irell & Manella LLP hopes to enc...

More businesses may be caught unaware now that chemicals can be listed without meaningful scientific or public review. By Jim ...

Whether coverage is warranted for unintended injuries takes on an abstract approach. By Joan M. Cotkin of Nossaman ...

Two seemingly innocuous and straightforward rules of law converge to form a perplexing situation. By Bryan L. Hawkins of Allen...

A state appellate ruling prompts predictions of an uptick in consumer protection lawsuits against insurers. By Deborah L. Stei...

With the 2011 proxy season almost over, it's time for a recap on say-on-pay vote results. By James D. C. Barrall of Latham &am...

San Francisco's board of supervisors have voted to amend a controversial cellphone radiation law, but the changes may not be e...

Costa Mesa can't lay off city employees–at least not yet–an Orange County Superior Court judge has ruled. ...

A real estate investment trust bought five hotels - including two in California - for $195 million. Chatham Lodging Trust paid...

California will receive more checks from the Federal Trade Commission than any other state under a settlement with Countrywide...

The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation overpaid employee salaries and travel advances by millions of dollars, state ...

Musick Peeler, a California law firm with six offices throughout the state, has added four lawyers to its Orange County, Westl...

Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP will soon have a snappy new moniker - Paul Hastings LLP. ...

Acting Oakland City Attorney Barbara J. Parker can remove "acting" from her title. ...

When a team of five M&A lawyers left Cooley LLP to join Dewey & LeBoeuff LLP's Palo Alto office two years ago, one of ...

The Obama administration tapped Michael W. Fitzgerald to be a judge in California's Central District on Wednesday, marking the...

The Heller Ehrman estate came up short this week in its attempts to blame former shareholders now with Covington & Burling...

E-commerce deals for cosmetic medical procedures push the legal limits. By Lara M. Krieger of Greines, Martin, Stein & Ric...

Not suffering in silence anymore, businesses push back with proposed amendments to FCPA enforcement. By Mike Emmick of Sheppar...

New rules incentivize employee whistle-blowers to bypass their company's internal reporting system and go directly to the SEC....

La Mesa resident Walter Bagdasarian's violent racist postings about Barack Obama two weeks before the 2008 election were not "...

A Judicial Council committee is polling 3,500 judges, court officials, bar leaders and others on how well they think the Admin...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a lower court's order of default against a group of production company defendan...

While funding for federal health care fraud investigations has doubled during President Barack Obama's time in office, the num...

Wells Fargo & Co.'s $125 million settlement of a lawsuit claiming it misrepresented the risk of its mortgage-backed securi...

Due to criticism over a court security plan and budget cuts, Marin County juvenile court will shut its doors. ...

In a big boost to copyright holders in California's music industry, China's largest Internet search provider announced Tuesday...