Lawsuits challenging ZIP code transactions stand to gain nothing. By Jeffrey A. Cohen and Alexander Yoffe of Cohen & Richa...

Two senior prosecutors from the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney's office will likely join the federal bench as magistrate judges lat...

A woman who decided against a mastectomy to treat her cancer is suing a medical device company and an Orange County hospital b...

Following two federal court cases filed in California of behalf of blind law school graduates, the agency that administers th...

The Obama administration's decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act is indicative of an expansive view of executive ...

Nearly two dozen more lawsuits have been filed against retailers over the practice of asking for ZIP code information during c...

The legal services industry lost 2,900 jobs in February, adding a bleak slice to what was otherwise good news for the U.S. job...

Do you feel like your captial investment in your law firm is holding you hostage? By Edwin B. Reeser. ...

Former Assistant U.S. Attorney Robert J. McGahan departed from Goodwin Procter LLP's Los Angeles office to accept a position a...

A seemingly innocent act may in fact be just as deadly as driving under the influence of alcohol. By Jonathan Michaels of Mich...

The long-running fee dispute between convicted murderer Phil Spector and his ex-lawyer Robert L. Shapiro has settled. With it ...

Beginning this month, victims of the deadly 2008 Chatsworth Metrolink crash will formally ask a judge to give them a slice of ...

Former KB Home CEO Bruce Karatz dodged a prison sentence on three felony fraud convictions after he pledged to help save a str...

An early childhood tragedy engendered the empathy Judge Kimberlee Lagotta draws on in the courtroom.

Lawyers and law firms do not fall under a Federal Trade Commission regulation designed to stymie identity theft known as the r...

After 25 years on state and federal benches, former state Supreme Court Justice Carlos R. Moreno hung up his robes March 1 to ...

His stepfather defended famous criminals, but Judge Patrick Marlette chose the other direction as a prosecutor and bench officer.

In an unusual turn of events, a federal judge appeared to order Mattel Inc. Chief Executive Officer Bob Eckert to be present e...

Sitting in the stillness of one of his mediation rooms, Floyd J. Siegal describes how two epiphanies in his career as a crimin...

During its annual Freedom Fund Scholarship and Awards Banquet, the Riverside branch of the NAACP presented Best Best & Kri...

The Bar Association of San Francisco hosted its mock trial competition last week, where six high San Francisco high schools ar...

Student volunteers from the USC Gould School of Law’s Street Law program hosted 52 students from the James A. Foshay Learning ...

The Aremnian Bar Association honored U.S. Attorney Andre Birotte Jr. on Feb. 24 at the Phoenicia restaurant in Glendale. More ...

Former state senators Joe Dunn and Dick Ackerman celebrate a correct answer in a trivia contest fundraiser March 2 for UC Irvi...

A federal grand jury indicted the former mayor of Upland and the mayor's appointee to a municipal board on corruption charges ...

The Target Corp. has been ordered to pay $22.5 million as part of a settlement for improperly handling hazardous wastes and ot...

The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment that would have weakened the proposed patent reform bill by a wide margin Thursday. ...

The Proposition 8 case has been reassigned to Northern District Chief Judge James Ware for any further district court proceedi...

A self-help book that aims to protect clients from legal abuse when one's own attorney becomes the enemy. By Rose Colombo. ...