Securities fraud class-action filings surged to the highest level in years at the beginning of 2008, but sagged as the year cl...

A federal appellate panel Tuesday found no constitutional conflict between Los Angeles' ban on billboards and its promotion of...

Construction has now stopped on the new $26.5 million courthouse for the 4th District Court of Appeal, Division Three. The pro...

Quinn Emanuel Urquhart Oliver & Hedges has picked up a partner in the firm's office in Los Angeles.

When worshippers in a parish split from the mother church, who keeps the steeple? In the case of breakaway Newport Beach cons...

Privacy issues will take the field today as the California Supreme Court referees a dispute over the NFL's policy of frisking ...

For the vast number of distressed homeowners, the massive federal bailout has provided no help. Neither has the federal progra...

Modifying the felony-murder rule may prevent some homicides, and punish the rest more fairly, writes Mitchell Keiter. - Focus ...

The change Obama has promised must include legal and moral change, where those at the highest levels of government are held ac...

The concept of judges displaying a lighter side in their writings — through poetry, for example — has been a source of debate ...

Former White House special prosecutor Kenneth W. Starr on Monday sharply criticized Attorney General Jerry Brown's legal basis...

President-elect Barack Obama's transition team announced Monday that Elena Kagan, dean of Harvard Law School, will be nominate...

An Islamic charity that claims it was illegally spied on by the Bush Administration can proceed with its lawsuit against the g...

While many lawyers enter the new year under the gloom of the down economy, attorneys at insurance recovery boutique Wood &...

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

Littler Mendelson has grabbed seven attorneys from the firm now known as Kauff McGuire & Margolis to join its San Francisc...

Two Spanish-language media giants, Mexico's Grupo Televisa and the Los Angeles-based Univision Communications Inc., are set to...

Bernard "Barney" Cassidy’s pro bono work defending the rights of prisoners at Pelican Bay prepared him for the equally emotion...

In our troubled economy, lawyers should become experts in their current practice or position themselves for a possible new car...

For two years, attorneys for rock superstars Led Zeppelin and the Grateful Dead waged a legal war against a Minnesota entrepre...

When Barak Lurie and Daniel Park were senior associates at the firm now named Glaser, Weil, Fink, Jacobs & Shapiro, they n...

Lawyers dealing with issues of judicial misconduct must weigh their remedies against the actions that might be taken by the ju...

Rules requiring probationers to notify officials before purchasing a pet don't serve the safety of police officers or the publ...

Whether you are a two-partner firm or a 100-attorney firm, strategic planning is critical for success, write Barbara Lewis and...

McAfee Inc. and three of its former executives, including one-time general counsel Kent Roberts, have agreed to a truce in a p...

A San Francisco federal court will have to balance protecting companies' IP rights and the the rights of those companies' indi...

Lawyers at the former Los Angeles affiliate of Marc Dreier's firm have decided to split up. A group that joined the firm a yea...

Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton has nabbed another Mayer Brown partner, this one for its Silicon Valley intellectual p...

Former Los Angeles gang prosecutor Kevin McCormick finds the Sacramento bench a good fit, and lawyers on both sides of the ai...

Judge Xapuri B. Villapudua grew up in Stockton and enjoys her ties to the community. ...