The California Supreme Court might craft explicit rules allowing government agencies to hire outside counsel on a contingency ...

A dozen cities in California are poised to pounce on an array of investment and commercial banks that allegedly bilked taxpaye...

Inmates at Los Angeles County's main jail for men are routinely subject to savage beatings - often at the hands of the facilit...

Judge Leslie A. Dunn of Van Nuys is willing to make tough decisions, even if that means dismissing charges against a criminal...

After years of sluggish growth and growing pains, the trend of no-frills health clinics in big-box and other retail stores is ...

Judge Charlotte W. Woolard enjoys the variety of cases and legal issues that come in and out of her busy law-and-motion courtr...

The American Bar Association has decided to go ahead with its Equal Justice Conference, scheduled for next week in Arizona-but...

The Americans With Disabilities Act does not require California cities to keep medical marijuana dispensaries open, a federal ...

Although the UCI School of Law is no longer brand new and though its 100-percent scholarships, which went to all students in t...

The San Mateo County district attorney's office is working out a deal with attorneys for tech blog Gizmodo and its editor Jaso...

Santa Cruz County Superior Court is publicly talking about laying off a big chunk of its workforce this summer. ...

With another 32 million individuals added to the system, Paul DeMuro of Latham & Watkins explains what healthcare reform w...

A Sacramento County Superior Court judge ruled Tuesday that the state was justified when it took more than $2 billion from Cal...

Eligibility for veterans court programs should be based on whether a service-related mental health disorder was at the root of...

Three years after shuttering Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Hospital in Watts, Los Angeles County is picking up the pace toward...

Bryan Liang and Tim Mackey of California Western School of Law say healthcare reform is focused on cost control and use of acc...

EFF is stepping into a legal battle between Facebook and aggregator Power Ventures, arguing that Facebook's lawsuit alleging v...

Because of divergent viewpoints about the definition of terrorism, there currently is no internationally agreed upon anti-terr...

Merger talks have fizzled between San Francisco's Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe and London's SJ Berwin, according to an e...

Mark Phillips of Goldfarb, Sturman & Averbach says recent cases indicate a new flexibility on the part of courts when deal...

With patents for blockbuster drugs nearing expiration, big pharmaceutical companies are looking beyond the drugs that built th...

On the heels of a scandal over the checkered past of disgraced crime lab technician Deborah Madden, San Francisco District Att...

The California Supreme Court on Tuesday seemed likely to uphold Proposition 209, a controversial 1996 ballot measure prohibiti...

By Lisa Kestenbaum Daily Journal Staff Writer For Richard Hamar, equilibrium is everything. The Los Angeles litigator, wh...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will pay $27.6 million - billed as one of the largest environmental settlements of its type in U.S. histo...

A Superior Court judge's decision to dismiss a judgment of malicious prosection against Manatt Phelps & Phillips and attor...

Department of Justice attorneys are balking at the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation's proposed $612,000 in damages for warrantle...

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen G. Breyer dissented Monday, not in a case, but over the issue of closing the court's front ...

Robert McKennon of McKennon|Schindler examines the federal courts struggle over how to apply the deferential standard of revie...

The 5,000 newspaper carriers who landed a $22 million settlement from the Orange County Register last June finally are free to...