Qualcommm announded late Sunday it would pay $891 million to its nemesis Broadcom, ending a patent brouhaha that spanned court...

Three immigration lawyers and two translators, all from the same firm, are in trial in Sacramento on charges of filing dozens ...

Amphastar Pharmaceuticals Inc. scored big Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court let stand a federal judge's decision that invalid...

Retailers should become familiar with the specific dos and don'ts pertaining to the collection of personal information from co...

Whether commissioning original music or securing rights to a song, filmmakers must navigate complex rules, writes Mark Litwak....

A Web site that allows users to publish and edit material online for free sued Apple in federal court Monday seeking to republ...

Punishing those who tortured will make future leaders think twice before they authorize the cruel, illegal treatment of other ...

The U.S. Supreme Court Monday agreed to decide under which circumstances federal courts can hear motions to reopen immigration...

The allegations involving Congresswoman Jane Harman may be business as usual for the Capitol, but columnist Martin Berg asks: ...

After years of debate over healthcare reform, a recession and a new president might just be what the doctor ordered. Rising he...

Los Angeles far and away led the country in federal law enforcement wiretaps last year, with drug investigations driving about...

The right of publicity and the ability to control one's image is central to a case involving a Taster's Choice coffee label, w...

A federal judge in Los Angeles signaled Monday that she would block parts of an ambitious scheme by the ports of Los Angeles a...

Maren Christensen of Universal Studios says piracy is the "greatest threat" to America's creative industries. ...

President Barack Obama announced Friday his intent to nominate Alejandro N. Mayorkas of O'Melveny & Myers to head the U.S....

Two lawsuits were filed late last week related to the defunct firm. ...

A sex toy made out of Pyrex glass instead of standard soda-lime glass is too obvious an invention to justify patent protection...

Mark McCaffrey asks: What has the precise function of the interpreter become at certain junctures in our legal system? ...

District Attorney Rod Pacheco says Superior Court Judge Paul Zellerbach, presiding over an embezzlement case against Pacheco's...

Plaintiffs' attorney Jeffrey S. Mitchell has won the San Francisco Trial Lawyers Association's Trial Lawyer of the Year Award....

Elona Baum, a longtime attorney for biotech giant Genentech, has been named general counsel at the California Institute for Re...

The device, manufactured by RealNetworks, allows users to make copies of DVDs to computer hard drives. Movie studios say that ...

Having a working knowledge of the Substance Abuse and Crime Prevention Act of 2000 is essential to bench officers and lawyers ...

Congress is considering a bill that would lift a range of limits on legal aid groups that receive federal funding. If the bill...

New associates at large firms need to be aware of what they're getting themselves into, writes Edwin Reeser. ...

A Superior Court judge's stinging dismissal of two high-stakes damages suits lodged against Dole Food Co. and Dow Chemical cou...

Judges who receive extra perks from the trial courts they work in may have to pay with their own money if those benefits incre...

Justice Paul H. Coffee has reached far despite his initial lack of career direction. It is one of the contradictions in the ju...

Instead of spending $1 billion more for new jail facilities, L.A. County should commit to developing alternatives to detention...

A reader wonders: Will a suit over "hot gas" really benefit consumers, or just their lawyers?