Seeking to clear a backlog of litigation, a movement is afoot to coordinate asbestos lawsuits pending in Los Angeles, Orange a...

Over the objections of big business, the Securities and Exchange Commission approved Wednesday a controversial program to rewa...

Barry Kurtz APC moved its operations from one end of the San Fernando Valley to the other.

Google Inc. and Citigroup Inc. plan to invest a combined $110 million into a wind farm in southern California where the Mojave...

Commissioner Kenneth Pritchard combines a keen intellect and a folksy demeanor to preside over all manner of cases in the tiny...

Patent holders now face a major jurisdictional hurdle in declaratory judgment cases. By Robert Harkins and Jennifer Ming of Se...

New York-based litigation firm Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP has been slowly, quietly building a presence in Southern Cali...

The state Supreme Court struggled Tuesday with how to calculate medical damages in personal injury cases in light of complex h...

Heading off consumer privacy lawsuits, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday rejected an attempt to extend liabilit...

Jimmy L. Gutierrez, city attorney for Rialto and Chino, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of reckless driving after b...

Just three years ago, midsize Portland firm Bullivant Houser Bailey PC was reaching critical mass in California. Today, that e...

Two recent appellate decisions clarify the issue of jurisdiction over competing claims of misrepresentation and insurance bad ...

Construction attorneys are watching to see whether their clients could be hit by new pollution suits if a proposed bill aimed ...

Bank of America has asked the U.S. judicial conference to consolidate all litigation related to Countrywide Financial's mortga...

In a narrow ruling involving the government's invocation of the states secrets privilege, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously t...

The beating of a San Francisco Giants fan in the Dodger Stadium parking lot has triggered a lawsuit against the Los Angeles Do...

Vice President and General Counsel for Rentech Inc. Los Angeles ...

Judge Aaron H. Katz credits his parents' emphasis on playing a healing role in society with leading him to give back from the ...

The effectiveness of automated response systems for takedown claims of copyrighted material. By Nick Solish ...

How commercial landlords can make or break their case. By Thomas Lombardi of Palmer, Lombardi & Donohue LLP ...

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's former chief of staff, Susan P. Kennedy, joined Alston & Bird LLP Monday, bringing a deep kno...

California Attorney General Kamala Harris announced a new state task force targeting mortgage fraud that she said will go beyo...

Finding that it didn't follow the law, a San Francisco County Superior Court judge has ordered a state environmental agency t...

A San Diego jury has awarded $17.4 million in damages to the family of a naval surgeon who was killed by an ambulance while ri...

At the judicial branch, committees have expanded in prominence and scope as the branch trouble shoots one issue after another....

A high-profile prosecutor claims he was transferred to a desk job in retaliation for endorsing an outspoken critic of Steve Co...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals decision holding that cheating on corporate...

When the state Supreme Court hears what some are calling the most significant personal injury case to reach the high court in ...

Dissenters to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision Monday calling for the reduction of California's prison population warned it c...