Goodwin Procter LLP Los Angeles Clients: Lennar Corp., City National Bank, San Francisco and San Francisco County

California's effort to put nonviolent drug offenders in drug treatment rather than jail will be in jeopardy after money for Pr...

General Counsel and Assistant Corporate Secretary for Farmer Bros. Co. Torrance ...

The event, which will spotlight such headline-grabbing issues as the criminal investigation into the BP oil spill runs March 2...

The Securities and Exchange Commission named a former lawyer from its enforcement division to head a new whistleblower unit cr...

Two recent rulings are a mixed bag for employers defending against wage and hour class actions. By Mandana Massoumi of Dorsey ...

DLA Piper LLP lost the chair of its public companies and corporate governance practice, Diane Holt Frankle, to Kaye Scholer LL...

Federal and state judges and bar leaders commemorated the 65th anniversary of a landmark Orange County school desegregation ca...

Rental companies can protect themselves from theft and fraud by following a few simple procedures. By Raymond D. McElfish of M...

The state Supreme Court determines that insurance companies must cover “innocent co-insureds” who suffer certain losses. By St...

A licensed private fiduciary and probate court trustee in San Diego pleaded guilty Friday to one count of wire fraud and one c...

What exactly do mediators and attorneys mean by the term "neutrality?" By Matthew P. Guasco of Judicate West. ...

A federal appeals panel upheld a judge's decision to toss a hard-fought lawsuit by the owner of a development company who accu...

Philip Michels, the 2011 CAALA president and medical malpractice expert, wants to get younger lawyers and more minorities invo...

The U.S. Supreme Court handpicked a lawyer to defend an appellate ruling that is under review, just the 43rd time in its histo...

A defendant's version of events - often amusing, sometimes insightful. By Richard M. Chacon. ...

State legislators have started debating a host of bills that have been or will be introduced this year, including one would th...

The Santa Ana branch of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's Office has struggled in the aftermath of some high-profile failed pros...

Drawn to the human element of her cases, Judge Margie Gunthardt Woods is undaunted, whether she's scaling a mountain or overru...

Upscale department store chain Nordstrom Inc. announced Thursday that it will acquire the online, members-only shopping club H...

Duane Mathiowetz jumped to Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in San Francisco, where he will be a partner in the firm's inte...

Yolo County Superior Court Judge David W. Reed's career as a local lawyer prepared him for the bench.

Video game giant Activision Blizzard has not clawed to the top without playing tough. But one case heading to trial next month...

Taking time off from a career to raise her children and move for a family business opportunity still led Referee Donna R. Levi...

Spanish-language skills and an easy disposition lend mediator Patricia Prince a specialty in labor and employment disputes. ...

Six defendants in Los Angeles were arrested Thursday for their roles in alleged schemes to bilk the federal Medicare program o...

Loyola Law School Dean Victor Gold announced plans to open a new Advocacy Institute this fall, offering clinical opportunities...

John W. Keker, of Keker & Van Nest in San Francisco, has signed on to represent Steven Donziger, the embattled lead attorn...

George Jaramillo, a former top aide to convicted Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona, may get to keep damages from a civil suit ...