Citing attorney-client privilege, Toyota has asked a federal judge to seal a bombshell of a lawsuit filed by a former in-house...

At their confirmation hearings, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. promised to show deference t...

Here are summaries of lawyer disciplinary actions taken recently by the state Supreme Court or the Bar Court, listing attorney...

A reader weighs in on a judge who inspired his career path.

Lawyers who get involved and stay involved in what they enjoy are likely to weather the economic storm more easily, writes Sta...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Stuart Hing's transition from jumpsuited funk musician to prosecutor and, finally, judge was motivated by the desire to make ...

Catherine A. Conway of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, helped successfully represent Starbucks in beating back a $100 mill...

After a decade of hearing graphic murder trials, overseeing a bleeding court budget is less harrowing for Judge Mary Ann O'Mal...

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the National Automobile Dealers Association filed a petition for review with the U.S. Court o...

The core of the way we govern ourselves - the basic gears in the watch of state government - have seriously eroded over time, ...

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced late Wednesday the appointment of Nancy L. Ayers to a judgeship in the Ventura County...

Rehashing a common argument, supporters of California's same-sex marriage ban told a federal judge late Wednesday that the gov...

The Federal Circuit recently found that under some circumstances, awarding an ongoing royalty for patent infringement in lieu ...

Prevailing plaintiffs should ordinarily recover attorney fees, but the opposite presumption applies to prevailing employers, w...

Clerical workers for the State Compensation Insurance Fund can immediately return to work and are entitled to back pay, a San ...

The governor's cuts to child welfare aren't simply morally wrong, they are also fiscally unsound, write John Burton and Miriam...

Helen B. Kim is set to take over leadership of Women Lawyers Association of Los Angeles - and has strong ideas about its plans...

Incoming State Bar president Howard Miller hopes to use his tenure to improve the organization's management and internal finan...

Keith Wisot's judgelike demeanor sets him apart from other neutrals, say lawyers who have worked with him. ...

As news spread through the legal community this week that UCLA School of Law's Dean Michael Schill would be departing to head ...

President Barack Obama's mere mention of medical malpractice during Wednesday night's address on health care reform lifted Rep...

California Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review an appellate court’s reversal of a ruling against Starbucks Corp. Tha...

Perhaps keen to show that she is, indeed, a "wise Latina," newly-ensconced Justice Sonia Sotomayor waited just 35 minutes Wedn...

Being honest and transparent with consumers about malpractice insurance benefits everyone, writes Josh King. ...

A former priest convicted of sexually abusing children is asking a Los Angeles court to return all documents filed in a new ci...

The Obama administration earned mixed grades on four key privacy areas in a report released by a leading privacy advocacy grou...

A recent appellate case may have effectively narrowed the gap between the two classes of private arbitration litigants, writes...

A settlement requiring a Newport Beach school district to train administrators, teachers and students to combat homophobia an...

Any approach to regulating climate change will provide more certainty than exists today, and more efficiency than can be achie...