The spring legislative session has seen a number of hotly contested bills affecting the criminal justice system, with various...

A Hollywood film financier facing bankruptcy proceedings has struck back against his creditors' lawyers from the firms Stroock...

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The state Supreme Court has granted review in a case over whether California State University San Diego should be on the hook ...

Absent agreement to resolve a dispute by different means, relying on information contained in an agreement which the parties a...

A Los Angeles appellate panel on Friday slapped two Sherman Oaks lawyers with a $22,000 sanction and referred them to the Stat...

A class of artists can proceed in an action against UMG Recordings Inc. alleging that the sale of digital music and ringtones ...

A billion-dollar copyright infringement battle between Michael Jackson's music publisher and an online karaoke disc retailer c...

After declining to speak publicly on political issues for years, former Gov. George Deukmejian has emerged from retirement wit...

Cox Castle & Nicholson hired prominent development lawyer Tim Paone as part of an ongoing push to expand and polish the la...

A controversial 9th Circuit decision that bars alien children from joining parents eligible to immigrate to the U.S. will get ...

Financial, staff, and judicial resources shrink ever year, but not the caseload. By Dave Rosenberg ...

The Central District court gets nearly a third of all bankruptcies filed without lawyers in the nation. ...

The recent erasure of a nine-figure trial court judgment against The Boeing Co. was more than just a stinging defeat for the p...

Lawyers pushing for a judicial overhaul of Men's Central Jail because of inmate abuse allegations have a new witness they hope...

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

Palo Alto-based Nest Labs Inc. named Richard "Chip" Lutton Jr. as its new general counsel. Lutton Jr. spent the past 10 years ...

Judge Nancy Newman, an avid equestrian, says her job is to keep neck-and-neck with evolving law.

Judge Maxine M. Chesney is a sounding board for her colleagues - and also an avid hiker.

A controversial technology that has brought a massive boom to the natural gas industry in many parts of the country has been q...

I often wished that my students could have shared my experience in Justice Black's study. It profoundly renewed my idealism an...

Three University of California professors have filed a writ of mandate trying to prevent the transfer of human bones to a grou...

California trial judges can order criminal defense lawyers not to talk to their clients about hostile witness testimony under ...

Under pressure from businesses, the state labor commissioner's office has quietly updated rules governing what information emp...

You should continually strive to build a stronger relationship with the firms you regularly use to obtain further concessions ...

Trial and appellate boutique Berkes Crane Robinson & Seal LLP set up a foolproof structure to ensure everyone at the firm ...

The Google engineer who wrote the much-discussed August 2010 email recommending the company get a license for Oracle Corp.'s J...

Seven Bay Area technology companies accused of violating antitrust laws by agreeing not to recruit each other's employees have...

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The suit, filed Thursday by the Los Angeles Police Protective League, claims that the impound rules adopted by the LAPD create...