Choosing whether to comply with mediation requests could make or break your case for prevailing party attorney fees. By Phil D...

Instead of their touching concern for the public purse, they should focus more on the just and deterrent effects of the death ...

If the goal in public markets is merely to get as many "exits" as possible as quickly as possible, then confidence in public m...

A recently decision interprets the element of "substantial assistance" for aiding and abetting liability under the federal sec...

A bill to curb alleged abuses of the Americans with Disabilities Act was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown on Wednesday. ...

A coalition of some of the country's largest Internet companies, including Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., has formed a lobbying g...

A Los Angeles criminal lawyer should be disbarred for "unacceptable indifference" to how a paralegal operated the lawyer's bra...

A class action against the Law School Admission Council Inc. for failing to accommodate disabled LSAT test takers can proceed ...

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP has added a new partner in the firm's labor and employment practice group at its Cos...

Intellectual property law firms Novak Druce & Quigg LLP and Connolly Bove Lodge & Hutz LLP are nearing final discussio...

Morrison & Foerster LLP continues to revamp firm leadership after tapping three lawyers to become new co-managing partners...

A state government lawyer tried to make warrantless DNA testing of arrestees sound as innocuous as fingerprinting Wednesday du...

A joint venture between Praedium Group LLC and Davlyn Investments Inc. landed $18.6 million in acquisition financing for the E...

Last month, a state Court of Appeal found Southern California Edison, a private utility, liable for private property damage on...

A San Francisco immigration judge denied an El Salvadorean man a fair asylum hearing by moving forward with the proceeding aft...

Attorneys from Gibson Dunn's Los Angeles and Palo Alto offices represented the fresh fruit and vegetable giant. ...

O'Melveny & Myers LLP welcomed back attorney J. Jorge deNeve as counsel in its Los Angeles office. DeNeve, who joined Alet...

Retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Donald McCartin, known for his notorious proclivity for handing down death sentence...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed State Bar dues legislation Monday that keeps the annual lawyers' dues fee at $410 for most bar members...

A state court judge has certified a class of more than 100,000 plaintiffs who claim the city of Chula Vista illegally taxed th...

Palo Alto-based law firm Cooley LLP launched a new online generator Monday to help emerging U.S. companies draft privacy polic...

Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Southwest Inc., the division of Planned Parenthood serving San Diego, Riverside and Imperial...

Board members of the Consumer Attorneys Association of Los Angeles won't choose their next Trial Lawyer of the Year for anothe...

Immunity for a California Highway Patrol officer who fired 12 rounds that killed a woman after a high-speed chase appeared ser...

A San Ramon attorney on Tuesday was arrested on a six-count federal indictment alleging she evaded taxes and coordinated illeg...

Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley honed her skills for more than a decade as a federal law clerk.

A San Jose jury's conclusion that Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. did not infringe a patent on the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet will no...

Defaulted homeowners are often easy targets for lawyers peddling false hopes that foreclosure may be avoided by suing the lend...

Get to know the types of distribution arrangements for releasing you film on video and in theaters. By Mark Litwak ...

The recently-formed California Appellate Law Group is seeking to reap the benefits of collaboration without the overhead costs...