The county's Board of Supervisors Tuesday voted unanimously to ask state and federal regulators to investigate allegations mad...

A recent state appellate decision may force consumers to rely on agencies to dispute illegal insurance rate hikes. By Brian S....

A barrage of local, state and federal law enforcement authorities Tuesday arrested 105 suspected gang members in Indio and sur...

In an effort to increase transparency, Japan has instituted a lay judge system similar to the U.S. jury trial. By Sidney Kanaz...

Federal prosecutors recommended three years probation for the main cooperating witness in the KB Home criminal stop options ba...

The American Bar Association successfully convinced the Federal Trade Commission to exclude lawyers from the "Red Flags Rule,"...

Bank of America will pay California $6 million under the terms of a multi-state agreement in which the bank settled complaints...

The U.S. Supreme Court will jump into the battle between the Obama administration and Arizona over the policing of illegal imm...

Since President Obama signed the Tribal Law and Order Act of 2010 in July - a sweeping measure designed to help tribes deal wi...

After mulling over a contentious water rights case for more than three years, it appears the California Supreme Court will pun...

Superior Court Judge Los Angeles County (Long Beach) ...

U.S. Attorney Melinda Haag announced Tuesday that she has reorganized the criminal division in her office by combining stand-a...

Lawyers in civil cases who get evidence from overseas may have to share it with criminal investigators thanks to a federal app...

Marin County Judge Andrew Sweet may not have all the answers, but he is willing to do the research.

Taraneh Maghame, a former acting general counsel for technology licensing company Tessera Inc., has joined Apple Inc. as a sen...

General Counsel for Acutate Corp. San Mateo ...

California's blatant evasion of federal immigration law may well fall on deaf ears. By David Llewellyn of Chapman University S...

Contributing to a retirement plan today means avoiding the income tax forever. By Bruce Givner and Owen Kaye of Givner & K...

Rates set by the Insurance Commissioner pursuant to Proposition 103 are not, and should not be, challengeable in court. By Sam...

The urge to play the blame game during this financial crisis is part of a repetitive cycle inherent in a capitalistic world. B...

Alan Jackson, deputy Los Angeles County district attorney, filed for the district attorney seat Monday. ...

Firm expands commercial litigation and labor and employment capabilities with boutique acquisition. ...

A U.S. judge let stand some claims against public relations guru Michael Sitrick, who is accused of manipulating the value of ...

Pasquale Iannetti, who once operated an art gallery near San Francisco's Union Square, is accused of knowingly selling fake Mi...

A judge on Friday shot down arguments against a lawsuit that could extinguish the popular July Fourth pyrotechnics at La Jolla...

Surprised by the controversy stirred up by a proposal to accredit law schools outside the United States, American Bar Associat...

At a time when many law school graduates are struggling to find jobs, students at the still-unaccredited UC Irvine School of L...

Corporate litigation observers said several big-name plaintiffs' firms that are growing their shops in Los Angeles are hoping ...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals dealt a blow to Los Angeles-based Occidental Petroleum Corp.'s efforts to have a case al...

The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday that it will consider whether power companies can be sued under federal common laws to...