Latham & Watkins partners in Los Angeles advised Nestlé on its acquisition of Kraft Foods' frozen pizza business for $3.7 ...
Sacramento County Superior Court Judge Peter McBrien narrowly escaped losing his job Tuesday, when the state Commission on Jud...
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A Santa Barbara software company filed a $2.2 billion copyright infringement lawsuit Tuesday against the Chinese government, a...
The Upper Deck Co., a Carlsbad-based card seller, counterfeited thousands of popular Japanese animation trading cards, a feder...
A patent infringement case that spawned two defamation lawsuits against Cisco and outed the company's formerly anonymous attor...
Deborah Sivas of Stanford Law School discusses responses, post-Copenhagen, to the 'endangerment finding' regarding greenhouse ...
Initial roadblocks to Oracle-Sun merger show why antitrust policy convergence should be top priority write Patrick Ryan and La...
Julie Daniels and Robin Kardon of Major, Lindsey & Africa instruct on how to navigate today's overflowing attorney candida...
Geoffrey Sheldon and James Oldendorph ask whether formal or informal policy will be the 'operational reality' for policing emp...
Securities fraud class actions filings declined sharply as credit-crisis litigation dried up in 2009 according to a new study ...
While U.S. Magistrate Judge Edward M. Chen will likely be renominated to the district court bench in San Francisco, his chance...
After a career in civil law, Anne H. Egerton was appointed to the bench in 2001 to handle criminal matters. Today, she feels r...
The California Assembly passed a bill authorizing the State's Bar's collection of dues on Monday, just days after the bar anno...
A state appellate court Monday granted $2.5 million in attorney fees to class action lawyers who got Sprint to agree to unlock...
There will be no U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a major prosecutorial immunity case after the parties settled, the court clerk a...
Merz Pharma Group, a private German pharmaceutical company, acquired San Mateo-based medical aesthetics company BioForm Medica...
Environmental groups have sued the City of Long Beach and its harbor commission to block a recent settlement between the Port ...
Consumer groups pressed Congress and federal authorities Monday to investigate an initiative from media companies that potenti...
A federal appeals court on Monday let stand its earlier decision to grant class certification to foreign nationals who are sui...
Seven of the 10 lawyers at San Francisco real estate and land use boutique Cassidy Shimko Dawson & Kawakami decamped to 35...
Latham & Watkins e-mailed its associates their 2010 salaries Monday and not only did their numbers go up, but associates r...
Sloan Simmons of Lozano Smith uses recent rulings to provide guidance on the issue of student discipline and cyberbullying. ...
Letter to the Editor
Eliminating 'Peremptory Prevarication' Is the Best Reform for Civil Proceedings
By Sharon Liangn
Dallas Holmes, Superior Court judge sitting on assignment, applauds suggestions to improve civil proceedings. ...
The definition of the modern American family, especially for black families, has reconfigured to the extent where old rules th...
Los Angeles-based Jeffer Mangels Butler & Marmaro received a shock at the year's end when six partners gave notice the day...
Aaron Cohn and Jennifer Hernandez of Holland & Knight say regulations favoring public transit, pedestrian walkways and bic...
Associate Justice Terence Bruiniers of the 1st District Court of Appeal says comments about the California Case Management Sys...