A Riverside County deputy public defender's battle to force the local sheriff's department to admit gay inmates into its drug ...

Amid discontent with the firm's leadership, Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP has taken action to restructure the firm's governance by m...

A missed deadline has disqualified the city of Costa Mesa's charter resolution from appearing on June's primary ballot. ...

Merger talks between Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP and Fulbright & Jaworski LLP are officially off, according to a s...

Beaches, bays and rivers in the Los Angeles area are set for a major cleanup after the federal Environmental Protection Agency...

Whether a worker is an independent contract is determined by the realities of the parties. By Bryan J. Lazarski of Buchalter N...

The California attorney general's office argued that the U.S. Supreme Court should strike down Arizona's contentious immigrati...

Even under a stricter standard adopted by an appellate court last year for proving inequitable conduct in patent infringement ...

There seems to be little correlation to three strikes laws and a decrease in crime. By Jeffery A. Lowe ...

A law firm has filed suit against the Bar Association of San Francisco, claiming the organization unlawfully refused to overse...

Federal circuits show little sympathy for ERISA attorneys who cannot show detrimental reliance on defective plan summaries. By...

Twelve years after the judiciary embarked on an effort to create one statewide court case management system, court leaders vot...

The future of the controversial law mandating that nearly every American obtain health coverage appeared to be hanging by a th...

California lawyers from Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP and Sullivan & Cromwell LLP advised in the sale of the Los Angeles Dodgers...

Judge Mary Strobel knows Los Angeles' guiding charter - she helped rewrite it .

In an era of advanced reproductive technology, increasing numbers of so-called "blended families" and greater acceptance of ga...

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Changes in reporting requirements for real property tax deductions to affect taxpayers. By Mike Joyce of Allen Matkins Leck Ga...

The U.S. Supreme Court kicked off consideration of the Obama administration's health law Monday by signaling an obscure injunc...

Nine months after losing provisional American Bar Association accreditation for low first-time bar passage rates, University o...

A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction on behalf of two prisoners who claimed their statutory right to an in-pers...

A Florida man accused of hacking into the emails of celebrities, including Scarlett Johansson, Mila Kunis and Christina Aguile...

As Los Angeles prepares for the forthcoming budget season, which starts next month, officials are weighing how best to tackle ...

A federal judge granted summary judgment in a decade-old class action against Live Nation and Clear Channel that alleged the t...

The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a subpoena enforcement action in the Northern District against Wells Fargo &a...

Chunghwa Picture Tubes Ltd. of Taiwan and Koninklijke Philips Electronics NV of the Netherlands agree to pay $10 million and $...

In the wake of its decision that the laws of nature cannot be patented, the U.S. Supreme Court ordered an appellate court to r...

Early proxy filings reveal influence of new marketplace and what to consider. By James D. C. Barrall of Latham & Watkins L...

One woman's victory in small claims court against American Honda Motor Co. Inc., for allegedly misleading consumers about gas ...

Some unusual tax deductions can pass muster. ...