A malicious prosecution suit on behalf of former Walt Disney Co. executive David Neuman came to a swift end in favor of the de...

General Counsel, Executive Vice President Luther Burbank Savings Manhattan Beach ...

Sheppard Mullin partner calls the voluntary dismissal a "total victory" for the famed author's trust and Harvard University. ...

Unpaid traffic tickets has contributed to the $10 billion gap in courts' coffers from uncollected fines and fees. ...

Attorneys said the Supreme Court's decision Monday to let stand a San Francisco ordinance that required handguns to be locked ...

An event Tuesday will introduce the nine lawyers selected for a new initiative aimed at helping attorneys develop effective so...

Loeb & Loeb LLP has snagged two attorneys from Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP in Los Angeles. Allan J. Abshez joins as a partn...

A ruling provides defendants with powerful ammunition to contest a plaintiff's request for far-reaching contact information ba...

Luis J. Rodriguez has filed a formal government claim accusing the bar Board of Trustees of defaming him by leaking a secret r...

Despite a quarrel over the standard for detecting racial bias in jury selection, the state Supreme Court on Monday affirmed th...

Los Angeles County Commissioner William Sadler is patient with litigants, even in stressful situations.

A roundup of recent transactions across the state and the lawyers involved.

Ellen Pao offered to drop her appeal if Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers agreed to pay her $2.7 million tab for legal fees...

California's chronic failure to adequately fund dependency counsel has led to colossal caseloads. By Michael Kaufman and Victo...

An artist copies someone else's Instagram photo, adds a silly comment, and sells it for thousands: Can he do that? By Stephen ...

A federal judge may soon approve the company paying $3.75 million for a single, bilateral 'no poach' agreement the company is ...

In a relatively rare move, the state Department of Managed Health Care is holding a public hearing in Sacramento Monday on Blu...

A Delaware federal jury awarded Fairchild Semiconductor Corp. $2.3 million in a patent case against Power Integrations Inc. Fr...

The Howrey LLP estate added to its coffers and resolved a variety of claims against 17 former partners and some of their new f...

An appellant who fell into "a black hole of the law" lost his appeal for a trial court to find that his discharge from parole ...

May suffered dismal growth in the national legal sector compared to April's spike of 2,100 new jobs, according to the latest e...

Seeing as judicial elections are likely here to stay, debate should focus on reforming the election system, not eliminating it...

A veteran state Supreme Court staff lawyer whose father was a prominent Los Angeles trial judge will be the new principal atto...

Workers' compensation law firm Reyes & Barsoum LLP accused its opposing counsel of hacking a cloud-based site to view atto...

Los Angeles County Commissioner Robert Palazzolo tackles the emotional issues that accompany family law.

A weekly roundup of lateral attorney moves, law firm office openings and partner promotions from around California.

Judge Daniel Nishigaya leavens his courtroom's formal air with an acute sense of compassion.

Los Angeles County Superior Court judges who exclusively handle complex litigation are presiding over more wage and hour class...

The thing that many partners fear most is being held personally liable for something they did not do and knew nothing about. B...

Every teenage girl on the East Coast in the 1960s remembers the name Kitty Genovese, who was murdered as her neighbors watched...