A 9th Circuit Court of Appeals panel heard arguments Thursday on whether an auto mechanic breaks copyright law by making a rea...

Community associations impact so many people that HOA law has become one of the hottest areas of law in California, with a ste...

More and more lawyers are blogging - or blawging - these days. When does it cross over from expression to advertising? By Larr...

According to the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, during the 12-month period ending on Dec. 31, 2014, bankruptcy case...

The issue of how to protect refugees from sexual abuse is now being addressed, thanks to work in the field by members of the H...

New rules implemented by the NLRB tilt the playing field in favor of unions as employers will have just days to respond to uni...

Mark Daniel Wenzel should be suspended for two years "for the good of the profession," the State Bar Court review department c...

U.S. District Judge Stephen V. Wilson sided with a group of restaurants and foie gras producers who claimed law banning the sa...

Persistence often pays for neutral Sarah Burke, who's known for her ability to stick with cases until they settle. ...

Regulators charged four California men for insider trading on information from two finance companies in Silicon Valley. They w...

Experts say the renewed debate over patent litigation reform will come down primarily to two factors - fee shifting and the ne...

Sunnyvale-based Zent Law Group prides itself on its nontraditional way of practicing law: The 12-attorney firm acts as true bu...

Many lawyers and judges believe that the controversy whether California judges can be members of the Boy Scouts of America is ...

Imperial County agrees to drop case challenging a 2003 deal to send Imperial Valley water to coastal cities, putting to rest 1...

General Counsel Achievers Corp. San Francisco ...

Criminal prosecutors seeking to play by the rules and give defendants favorable evidence can be undercut by their own team, at...

Although the applications for drones are limited only by our imaginations, drone operations must be conducted in a manner that...

Law firms typically borrow for one of four reasons. Two can be, but are not always, supportable; one is supportable if limited...

As a young Los Angeles Police Department officer in 1968, I could not imagine the society I now live in as an old man. By Will...

Longstanding tensions between the Los Angeles Unified School District and public charter schools came to a head in the state S...

Known for his efficiency and quick attentiveness to resolve cases, Superior Court Judge Owen L. Kwong will retire this March...

Capretz & Associates of Newport Beach objected that players from NFL Europe should not be shorted on benefits. The federal...

The former U.S. general counsel of iGate Technologies Inc. is pursuing a lawsuit against her former employer and a supervisor ...

In M&G Polymers USA LLC v. Tackett, decided last week, the U.S. Supreme Court finally got a case with the right fac...

A first-of-its-kind California effort to curb the use of demurrers in civil cases is moving forward in Sacramento, as plaintif...

The White House announced Wednesday that Eileen M. Decker, the Los Angeles deputy mayor in charge of public safety and counter...

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

Irvine-based Terra Tech Corp. became the first company squarely in the business of growing marijuana to publicly register to t...

Applying for a severance order does not accomplish what many attorneys think it does. Most misuse the term "severance" to desc...

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