Taking someone's DNA upon arrest for a felony is no more invasive than taking fingerprints, a U.S. judge ruled Tuesday, denyin...

Two real estate attorneys can't be sued for filing court papers that scuttled the purchase of downtown Los Angeles' historic O...

The showdown escalated this week between Chief Judge Alex Kozinski and the Obama administration over health care benefits for ...

Daniel M. Hanlon was a lousy liar, which made him bad at dice games but great at being a judge. Now he's bringing his even-han...

Big verdicts grab the headlines, but the biggest battles often begin after the trial's conclusion. So-called "post-trial rescu...

Katie Pratt of Loyola Law School says more holiday gift-givers should instead honor their family, friends, and business contac...

John Browning of Thompson, Coe, Cousins & Irons shows how courts deal with their fair share of Christmas Scrooges during t...

Los Angeles Police Department Inspector General Andre Birotte Jr. has been nominated by President Obama to be U.S. attorney fo...

Elinor Roberts of Swords to Plowshares addresses the legal barriers veterans must endure to obtain benefits and says it's time...

With more stock option backdating trials slated for 2010, the dismissal of the Broadcom case is likely to gain traction in the...

Attorney Edward Chang writes about his experience serving in Operation Iraqi Freedom. ...

Adam Siegler of the Siegler Law Group says efforts to provide veterans with legal assistance must be brought together under on...

A plaintiff lawyer has concluded that internal Toyota Motor Corp. documents provided to him by a disgruntled former company co...

Supermarket mogul George Torres, whose racketeering case disintegrated amid discovery violations, quietly pleaded guilty Monda...

Two weeks after the murder of attorney Jeffrey Tidus in his driveway in the city of Rolling Hills Estates, sheriff's investiga...

California's toxics warning law Proposition 65 does not apply to meat that may contain harmful substances, as it is preempted ...

The California Department of Motor Vehicles must pay a national medical marijuana advocacy organization $69,400 in attorneys' ...

Chief Judge Alex Kozinski of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that time has run out for a federal agency to appeal ...

Sherman Oaks attorney James Fox won a $15 million verdict in a medical malpractice case against Harvard physicians at Childre...

UC Hastings College of the Law named Frank H. Wu as its new dean and chancellor Tuesday, ending a tumultuous period in the law...

The state Department of Transportation will pay $1.1 billion over the next 30 years to make its pedestrian paths accessible to...

Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Maurice Possley and Kathleen Ridolfi of the Innocence Project write about the dismissal of the...

Readers had much to say about Greg Katz's three part series on California's parole system. "Secret Hearings, Few Rights," (Dec...

Kirk Pasich of Dickstein Shapiro says too often insureds are unaware of their coverage extent and do not take full advantage o...

A Texas lawyer has concluded that internal Toyota Motor Corp. documents provided to him by a disgruntled former company lawyer...

Rick Bergstrom and Liat Yamini of Jones Day write about the lower courts' attempt to knockout the attorney-client privilege. ...

Defense lawyers, government prosecutors and circuit judges themselves have complained that the en banc system of the 9th U.S. ...

A federal appellate court on Wednesday upheld a $290 million verdict and an injunction against Microsoft Corp. for infringing ...

A San Francisco federal judge on Tuesday denied former McKesson Corp. chairman Charles W. McCall's motion for a new trial base...

A state appellate court on Tuesday ruled that a Ventura man who was hit and severely injured on his motorcycle deserves full d...