In a further blow to Law School Admissions Council Inc., a federal judge on Friday allowed the Department of Justice to interv...

A federal judge has dismissed a copyright infringement lawsuit against five universities — including the University of Califor...

Bankrupt Bay Area solar panel manufacturer Solyndra LLC filed suit Friday against three Chinese companies it claims engaged in...

A more than 140-year-old Los Angeles grocery store is changing ownership with help from Proskauer and Morgan Lewis. ...

Five defendants filed appeals Friday in a case accusing the FBI of infiltrating and indiscriminately spying on a group of Sout...

A man who served prison time in the 1980s for sex offenses against two teenage sisters and went on to earn a law degree and pa...

Estate planning lawyers have been scrambling to advise their very wealthy clients on how to take advantage of unprecedented lo...

Judge Brian Yep has seen his native Antelope Valley undergo large transformations over time.

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP added Scott R. Miller as partner in Los Angeles. Miller, a trial lawyer, represent...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

U.S. Magistrate Judge Kandis A. Westmore tells defendants they can do better.

Litigator, law firm managing partner and surf guitarist Patrick M. Kelly becomes the 2012-13 State Bar president Saturday. He ...

Even though the existing practice of the majority of employers recognize employee privacy rights, employers should undertake a...

The team is touring the country and challenging peoples' convictions by holding a mock death penalty trial of a famous defenda...

Given that California's Green Chemistry Initiative was modeled after the EU's, recent comments by the EU about the program car...

A federal judge ordered the government Thursday to hand the court more than 100 computers and storage devices obtained by 27 s...

David Gindler, a litigation partner at Irell & Manella LLP and the newly minted chair of the Los Angeles Master Chorale, a...

At the Spring Street federal courthouse in Los Angeles, the U.S. District Court for the Central District last month celebrated...

Bruce L. Blumberg, a sole practitioner known for his fierce advocacy in juvenile dependency matters in San Francisco County Su...

As a successful plaintiffs' lawyer handling medical malpractice and personal innjury cases, Joseph E. Thielen had almost alway...

Lawyers for Catholic priests lost their latest attempt to keep church documents out of the public eye when the state Supreme C...

A group of former partners from the defunct firm Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP on Thursday appealed the $71.5 million bankruptcy set...

In what is being touted as a milestone victory, a group of music publishers won $6.6 million in damages - plus attorney fees -...

U.S. District Judge Susan Y. Illston on Friday granted preliminary approval of a settlement in a long-running case alleging th...

Sequenom Inc., a San Diego-based life sciences company that provides genetic analysis solutions, has appointed a new chief leg...

The former top litigator at the world's biggest music label, Universal Music Group, has joined law firm Steptoe & Johnson ...

The Bar Association of San Francisco's Volunteer Legal Services Program (VLSP) and the Northern District Court of California c...

When Another Planet Entertainment LLC wants to put on a multiday music festival, it often turns to San Francisco-based law fir...

The U.S. Supreme Court's Wal-Mart and Concepcion decisions last year were read by many legal observers as big setbacks for pla...

In a reversal of fortune in the smartphone patent wars, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. on Thursday persuaded a federal appellate...