A federal class-action lawsuit claiming Riverside County and hundreds of its social workers have been illegally removing child...

The estate of renowned author Gore Vidal has reached a settlement with his nephew, ending a string of lawsuits filed after Vid...

Prime Healthcare Services Inc., a company that dropped a plan to buy a nonprofit chain of hospitals this year, is suing Attorn...

A former San Francisco-based lawyer has been indicted for a conspiracy to defraud clients into buying sham investments. ...

A Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge allowed a suit accusing the city of unlawfully taxing reimbursed expert fees and tr...

Wells Fargo & Co. has steered minority borrowers in Oakland into predatory mortgage loans since at least 2004, the city cl...

Superior Court Judge Fresno County (B.F. Sisk Courthouse) ...

After a longtime relationship, Aduro Biotech brings on Blaine Templeman from New York. ...

Starting a job at a firm that employs thousands of attorneys throughout the world is a little more complicated than a walk aro...

Executive Vice President and Corporate Counsel of Sinanian Development Inc. Tarzana ...

Recent cases show that California superior courts are increasingly sustaining demurrers to certain affirmative defenses, which...

A recent court of appeal decision expounded on the "reasonable expectation of the insured" doctrine for interpreting ambiguous...

Two recent appellate courts grappled with a defendant's ability to compel arbitration pursuant to an arbitration agreement aft...

Struggling California sea otters are free to live anywhere along the California coast thanks to a decision by a Los Angeles di...

District Judge Edward M. Chen largely denied the industry's motion for preliminary injunction, which would have blocked a city...

Melanie P. Grace officially started in her role as general counsel of Hercules Technology Growth Capital late last week. The f...

The plaintiffs' expert witness testimony doesn't hold water in case where residents of a LA County-owned public housing develo...

Trademark lawsuits challenging Google Inc. and other search engines' sales of keywords as advertising have kept those Internet...

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP announced it will add a new labor and employment partner, Harry I. Johnson III, fresh off a st...

A jury trial that started Monday in superior court will take on hot-button age discrimination and journalism ethics issues, an...

Dialog Semiconductor PLC on Monday announced the $4.6 billion purchase of San Jose-based chipmaker Atmel Corp., a manufacturer...

A state Senate bill, which passed both houses of the Legislature last week, proposes giving businesses a 90-day window to obta...

Now that Volkswagen AG has admitted to rigging emissions tests on nearly 500,000 of its cars, lawyers are eying a potential li...

Superior Court Judge Fresno County (Fresno) ...

A roundup of recent mergers and acquisitions and financing activity and the lawyers involved.

Non-California residents no longer have to pay more in fees than state citizens to fish here, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Ap...

"Nonpracticing entity"- to anyone in technology, these words instill images of monsters lurking in the darkness waiting to exa...

A 9th Circuit decision last week throws into doubt the ability of a bankruptcy debtor to avoid any challenges to a reorganizat...

A new law banning grand juries in cases where a police officer kills a citizen goes into effect soon. While the L.A. DA's offi...

A recent decision from the 9th Circuit is the latest in a trend of federal courts narrowing their jurisdiction to hear cases f...