More than 8,000 entertainment professionals will sign and seal $800 million in motion picture deals at the American Film Marke...

A new state law intended to crack down on employers who misclassify their workers includes an unusual punishment : public sham...

Two years after UC Berkeley students began protesting tuition hikes, their battle has moved to state and federal courts where ...

The Obama administration appears poised to offer its first Latino nominee to the federal bench in the Central District. Jesus ...

Judge Dianna Gould-Saltman's family law background makes her ideal for her assignment.

What lawyers should keep in mind when deciding whether or not to object. By Michael Masuda of Noland, Hamerly, Etienne & H...

Foley & Lardner LLP added Elizabeth S. Elson as of counsel in Los Angeles. Her focus is on federal and state health care l...

After 21 years at the helm of Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, firm Chairman and CEO Ralph Baxter is preparing to step d...

Judge Shelly B. Torrealba grew up with cow-milking duty and now enjoys shepherding crime victims

Eight real estate investors will plead guilty to charges stemming from their schemes to game foreclosure auctions in Northern ...

The largest gender discrimination class action in history, which was struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, is back in...

ADR neutral who defended White House aide Monica Lewinsky draws on his 40 years of trial work and passion for civil liberties ...

Does a party have a right to a statement of decision absent a trial? By Anne M. Grignon and Paul D. Fogel of Reed Smith LLP ...

The pursuit of justice looks more and more like a game played by hidden rules. By Norm Pattis ...

Mediation offers a uniquely confidential setting to communicate to the opposing side. By Jeffrey M. Bases of Bases & Bases...

Two fights in Solano and Kern counties have raised the legal question of whether targeting out-of-county waste interferes with...

The Point Media lawyers are all seasoned in-house counsels from production companies, studios and networks specializing in ent...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange will press forward with its bid to purchase the Crystal Cathedral church out of bankruptc...

A Los Angeles billionaire is in talks with the Judicial Council to help the courts roll out a statewide case management system...

A federal judge has thrown out a class action against the customer review website Yelp Inc., finding that the company is immu...

Gov. Jerry Brown's pension reform plan finds him attempting to grapple with one of the largest budget quagmires without steppi...

An April decision by the 9th Circuit that broadened a federal law to combat computer hacking will be reheard en banc, the cour...

A district Court judge issued a preliminary injunction Thursday blocking a large part of a San Francisco ordinance requiring c...

What good is it to apply law without caring about whether the result is a just one? By Dan Lawton of Lawton Law Firm ...

U.S. District Judge Virginia A. Phillips of Riverside was wrong to sanction a Los Angeles deputy city attorney $60,000 for mak...

Sixteen people were arrested Thursday, charged with participation in an $18 million health care fraud scheme. ...

A divided appellate panel upheld the authority of Southern California air pollution regulators to impose monitoring and report...

Two musicians' unions circulated a memo Thursday encouraging their members to reject a direct licensing deal offered by satell...

A former Nixon Peabody LLP partner accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of manipulating evidence on behalf of a B...

Six months after the U.S. Supreme Court dealt what appeared to be a death blow to consumer class actions by upholding mandator...