It's past time for Congress to amend the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. By Peter J. Toren ...

"The Future of Affirmative Action," edited by Richard D. Kahlenberg, is a collection of essays exploring race-neutral methods ...

Initially a product of the desire for more efficient and cost effective settlements, the mediation session was seen as the fin...

The founders of Brown Wegner McNamara took a chance when they went out on their own at the height of the recession. But the Ir...

LA Lawyers Philharmonic Legal Voices staged its 5th annual concert at Disney Hall on June 14. Among those in attendance were, ...

"My watchwords are patience and persistence," said William A. Quinby, an Oakland-based mediator and arbitrator. ...

U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh reckons plaintiff tech workers 'would have won' in suit that settled for $324.5 million ...

Armed with a balanced budget, Sherri R. Carter is instituting a raft of changes to the court's aging administrative guts. Chie...

From left, Inner City Law Center Executive Director Adam Murray, center board member Andrew Esbenshade, Los Angeles City Attor...

A man convicted of murder largely on the basis of an expert witness who later recanted may get a new chance to prove his innoc...

The number of law firm jobs for new lawyers increased slightly last year and so did pay, according to new figures from a detai...

Inventors of business methods cannot patent their new tools by saying they use computers to implement them, a unanimous U.S. S...

A move by Democratic lawmakers earlier this week to introduce net neutrality legislation was viewed widely by telecommunicatio...

Despite reaching a milestone agreement last week with its largest creditor, city of San Bernardino took heat Thursday for the ...

When NCAA President Mark Emmert took the stand Thursday in a potentially groundbreaking antitrust trial, he spoke of dramatic ...

Richard Climan and Keith Flaum of Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP discuss how to negotiate a request for a consequential damages...

Should patents be issued on business ideas that are implemented using conventional software and hardware techniques? The U.S. ...

With their savings gone, trial courts are looking at an all-too-familiar playbook since it appears they're not going to get th...

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

Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Hudson Pacific Properties Inc. Los Angeles ...

Justice Marvin Baxter's announcement came as a surprise, and his departure has the potential to ideologically transform the st...

In a recent U.S. high court ruling, Justice Thomas noted that there were two threats constituting cause for concern under an O...

Gov. Jerry Brown announced the appointment of 15 new judges Wednesday, including eight for Los Angeles County Superior Court. ...

Valeant Pharmaceuticals took its roughly $51 billion unsolicited buyout offer directly to Allergan's shareholders on Wednesday...

The 2nd District Court of Appeal wrote in a lengthy, published opinion Wednesday that a jury should not have inflated lawyer H...

Upon exiting Dodger Stadium, Bryan M. Stow was yelling with his arms raised, according to testimony Wednesday from one of the ...

Plaintiffs claim they were trafficked from Indonesia to labor without pay for a Los Angeles couple, according to a lawsuit fil...

A superior court judge voiced skepticism Thursday that an unlicensed lender could levy high interest rates on more than $15 mi...

Los Angeles law firm Taylor & Ring reached the deal this week with the Moraga School District, which agreed to pay $7 mill...

The short answer: yes. By Scott L. Nelson ...