An atheist returned to prison for violating parole because he objected to drug treatment that required him to acknowledge a hi...

Blue Cross of California has settled a class action with 1,500 people who alleged they were denied coverage of a widely used s...

Budget change proposal will request money to cover increased benefits costs.

An ongoing feud between Yelp Inc. and a San Diego-based bankruptcy law firm is heating up with a lawsuit filed by the review w...

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

The National LGBT Bar Association kicked off its 25th Anniversary conference in San Francisco Friday with an estimated 1,800 l...

Law firm culture has long focused on the ability of attorneys to bring a high level of thought and analysis to every legal cas...

Years ago there were many websites offering online mediation services. Maybe we have a short memory span and have forgotten wh...

So what are an employer's best practices when faced with a smaller putative class action? By Kenneth Sulzer and Laura Reathaford

There are occasional situations when those subject to state law environmental claims wish to pursue contribution claims agains...

It's impossible to discern whether brake override technology would stay activated in a given situation without knowing a drive...

Need to delay a civil case in Riverside County? No dice, say many attorneys across the state, some of whom are smarting over a...

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

State Controller John Chiang paid a visit to Los Angeles last week for a California Hispanic Corporate Counsel Leadership Inst...

The Landau Lawyers League basketball playoffs have concluded for the summer season, with local attorneys competing in champion...

The Los Angeles Paralegal Association held a Pro Bono Fair Saturday with many of Southern California's most prominent public i...

Foreign companies' recognition that the U.S. Bankruptcy Code is more business-friendly than many local insolvency laws has beg...

U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin G. Scalia declined to shed his conservative curmudgeon's persona even as he got d...

As California transitions to a new lethal injection method amid court injunctions and other obstacles that have led it to scra...

Immigration attorneys and State Bar officials are closing in on an agreement on legislation meant to prevent lawyers and other...

Brenda Stevenson had no way of knowing that her book, "The Contested Murder of Latasha Harlins," published this month, would b...

A man who stole $31.4 million by lying to Vanguard Public Foundation donors deserved his 22-year sentence for misrepresenting ...

When Michele Wein Layne, an 18-year-veteran of the Securities and Exchange Commission, became director of the regional office ...

Establishing a special needs trust when a party settles a suit for personal injury damages or a claim for workers' compensatio...

Manufacturers often agree to defend their retail partners in litigation. Are claims against the retailer partners also ...

If we're going to drug test doctors, shouldn't we be testing lawyers, too? By Bradley I. Kramer

A jury in Van Nuys found that Easton-Bell Sports was not liable for brain damage suffered by a rider wearing one of the compan...

Backers minimize ruling that state failed to comply with voters' wishes on train

A roundup of recent California development and lease deals and the lawyers involved.

Litigation over walnut purchases ends in cash and stock deal for shareholders