Los Angeles County is seeking legislative changes to allow judges to become public defenders after a Superior Court judge foun...

The Screen Actors Guild has reached a tentative settlement with its members who accused the union in a lawsuit of withholding ...

of a U.S. judge's landmark ruling striking down a California ban on same-sex marriage. ...

Public agencies have a new test to protect against liability for nondisclosure of relevant information to bidders, by Randy Pa...

Hitting the "patent lottery" might become harder if Congress passes damages legislation with teeth, by Chris Marchese and Olga...

It's a safe bet that the 9th Circuit will expand the use of waiver to grant benefits to ERISA plan participants, by Robert J. ...

Change is in the air for the application of quasi-judicial immunity, by Janet L. Everson and Bryan L. P. Saalfeld of Murphy Pe...

Technology could help the state's judicial system achieve more with less, by Sanford Jossen. ...

Wells Fargo & Co. must pay $203 million to California customers who paid fees based on the bank's policy of processing tra...

A false advertising dispute between California companies that make hyperbaric chambers could have unintended consequences: hig...

Congress approved legislation Tuesday that will prevent teacher layoffs and extend Medicaid payments to states, but the move c...

Jeffrey G. Bennett was a cop and a prosecutor before becoming a Ventura County judge. His laid-back surfer looks should not co...

Therapies using controversial embryonic stem cells that made paralyzed rats walk in lab tests now are one step closer to helpi...

Careful, anything said in the workplace can and will be used against you. The state Supreme Court makes it harder for plaintif...

Less than a year after eBay Inc. sold a majority of its stake in real-time telecommunications service Skype A.G. to an investm...

While the California Constitution allowed voters to ban same-sex marriage, the federal constitution is not as flexible, by M. ...

The White House is not likely to rush into appointing a permanent successor to Elena Kagan as solicitor general after her elev...

The group's 550-member house of delegates voted to urge trial and appellate judges to distinguish between "prosecutorial misco...

Wells Fargo & Co. has agreed to pay $20 million to settle the claims of a nationwide class of mortgage consultants who all...

Think that class action waivers aren't enforceable in California? Think again now that the U.S. Supreme Court has entered the ...

Do mandatory arbitration provisions in a residential development's covenants, conditions and restrictions actually constitute ...

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A Los Angeles Superior Court Judge has ordered Distict Attorney Steve Cooley's office to return assets seized last month on al...

A federal judge in Los Angeles on Monday delayed sentencing for a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement attorney who...

One of the jurors involved in awarding a massive $677 million verdict to plaintiffs suing the nursing home chain is being targ...

How does the government raise revenues in a nation founded by tax objectors? By calling new levies "fees" to obscure their tru...

In a win for employers, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday that workers can't sue to enforce a state law that protects ...

U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali confirmed Heller Ehrman's liquidation plan Monday, triggering a major transition in the c...

Disbarred for nearly three years, former securities trial lawyer William S. Lerach proved Monday he hasn't lost the knack for ...

For San Francisco County Judge Andrew Cheng, a fan of Russian literature, contemplating the fairness of the criminal justice s...