The suit claims the soon-to-be-launched carbon trading market violates the federal Civil Rights Act by adversely affect blacks...

U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer seemed unpersuaded Friday that the plaintiffs suing Wal-Mart in a downsized gender bias ...

The ALJ's order found that double-blind, randomized clinical trials were not necessary for claims of the type that POM made. B...

Prosecuting pro per defendants presents some of the most unique challenges a prosecutor or trial judge will face. By Benjamin ...

The court's ruling effectively permits co-authors to dispute each other's copyright interests more than 35 years after the fac...

In a move legal observers said showed unusual timing, the state Supreme Court could soon decide whether a criminal defendant h...

An East Coast firm that has steadily boosted its Silicon Valley presence in recent years has hired a new corporate partner to ...

9th Circuit judges have two times their caseload, a backlog of 14,000 undecided matters and the slowest resolution time. By Ca...

A group of developers scored a $6.1 million verdict after a jury found that San Jose flouted an agreement to fast-track their ...

After a personal-injury settlement agreement went haywire, all but one of the original trial lawyers have withdrawn from the c...

A team of financial insolvency and restructuring lawyers led by prominent Costa Mesa-based attorney Craig A. Barbarosh has lef...

The decades-long legal battle over the 43-foot cross marking a federal veterans memorial site at the peak of Mount Soledad in ...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan LLP added Yury Kapgan as partner in Los Angeles. Kapganspecializes in intellectual prope...

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

Judge James Cox got flak for rigidity, but lawyers respect his command of probate matters.

California's otherwise active plaintiffs' bar ignores one potentially lucrative area of litigation. Favored by employers and o...

Former Los Angeles County judge joins JAMS after 28 years on the bench, including 15 years as the Northeast district's only pr...

Former investment fund manager John Farahi pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges Thursday, admitting he swindled millions of...

The former CEO of Pegasus Wireless Corporation was sentenced to 21 years in prison Thursday for participating in a complex se...

A federal lawsuit seeking declaratory and injunctive relief against the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department for jail abuse...

The Charles Schwab Corp. on Wednesday closed its second stock sale of the year with legal counsel from Arnold & Porter LLP...

Lawyers for a pair of gun show owners on Thursday petitioned the 9th Circuit to modify its June 1 en banc opinion to decide wh...

U.S. District Judge Lucy H. Koh said Apple would have to choose between seeking a preliminary injunction and a possible delay ...

A shift to digital content has upended the video game industry's traditional revenue-sharing and advertising models, forcing c...

For the second time in three weeks, Senate Democrats moved to pierce Republican opposition to a confirmation vote for a 9th U....

In a case alleging foul play at now-defunct mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc., a federal judge ruled this week to dismiss c...

The class of 2011 had an overall employment rate of 85.6 percent as of February, the lowest rate since 1994, according to a re...

Felicia Marcus who starts her four-year term on the State Water Resources Control Board at the end of the month, has worn seve...

JetPAC, a political action committee affiliated with the California Judges Association, raised a modest amount of money for la...

The lawyers at Weiland, Golden, Smiley, Wang Ekvall & Strok LLP credit their success as a top insolvency shop in part to a...