A class action brought on behalf of residents who were overcharged for utility services may help the city increase its claim v...

Support.com Inc. , known for its cloud-based software solutions in customer service, announced Tuesday it has tapped Michelle ...

This summer, a group of federal prosecutors may have offered the best evidence yet that federal drug sentencing reform is fina...

A settlement appeared unlikely on Tuesday in case where plaintiff said UCLA Medical Center's substandard security protections ...

An appeal over state pension officials' refusal to pay a superior court judge half a million dollars from his retirement accou...

Sacramento County Judge Stephen Acquisto says he likes being able to make objective decisions.

The online retailer, which went public just two years ago, tapped Weil and Cooley in its sale to Liberty Interactive, which al...

Just like companies adopt HR policies to save money in the long run, so too should studios adopt policies and protocols to pro...

The 9th Circuit recently weighed in on the issue. By Laura W. Brill and Nicholas F. Daum ...

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 560, a bill barring the consideration of immigration status of child...

Last week, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a law that clarifies when objections not ruled on by a trial court are preserved for appell...

Prominent trial lawyer Alexander G. Calfo joined King & Spalding in Los Angeles as partner in its product liability practi...

Nero Inc. successfully won a patent infringement lawsuit filed by consumer electronics manufacturer JVC Kenwood Corp., followi...

Head of Legal A Medium Corp. San Francisco ...

Hogan Lovells US LLP announced today that it has signed former U.S. District Attorney Stephanie Yonekura as a partner at its L...

Robert A. Wenke, the former Los Angeles Superior Court presiding judge who conducted the second gun inquiry in the assassinati...

John Kagel of Palo Alto will handle the first step before binding arbitration in the suit over the firing of former State Bar ...

The state Supreme Court, in companion cases Monday ruled that a trial judge must personally advise a mentally disordere...

Superior Court Commissioner Riverside County (Indio) ...

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

Observers are skeptical about the chances of a lawsuit by Cotchett, Pitre & McCarthy LLP against President Barack Obama an...

Are we to believe that the Great Recession was conceived without sin in the C suite? By William K. Black ...

The California Supreme Court has expanded the rules regarding the admission of extrinsic evidence in matters relating to wills...

Public companies increasingly have shed takeover defenses in recent years, on the theory that such defenses reduce share price...

In June, the EPA issued the final rule defining what qualifies as "waters of the United States" for the purposes of the federa...

A recent government report says that federal courts imposed fewer life sentences this year than at any time since 2004. But ab...

The State Supreme Court agreed to hear the appeal of a San Quentin inmate whose excessive force suit against prison officials ...

Attorneys must clearly inform defendants when a plea bargain will result in certain deportation under the law, a three-judge p...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals granted habeas relief Friday to a young man sentenced to 50 years in prison for murder a...

Officials at Los Angeles' Los Padrinos Juvenile Court drew judicial disapproval Friday for a petty spat that mushroomed into a...