Kenneth E. Hayes, who had fled the country to escape marijuana charges, returned expecting a more lenient stance from the Obam...

O'Melveny & Myers and UCLA have formed an appellate clinic for third-year law students. In its first semester, the student...

The standard interlocutory appeal provision has worked well in some areas of civil litigation, and it should also function wel...

Whether patdown searches before football games are "reasonable" will be the key to a couples' lawsuit over such security measu...

Volunteers with "Street Law," a nonprofit program hosted by the Southern California chapter of the Association of Corporate Co...

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that the brother of a man killed by the Iranian government is barred from seeking access ...

The parent company of defunct logging giant Pacific Lumber is fighting charges in a federal court in Oakland that it mismanage...

The future of a Virginia-based technology company is in doubt after a Santa Clara County jury concluded Tuesday its executives...

The fact that our tax system is biased in favor of single-family dwellings means that newer cities like Los Angeles tend to be...

A case involving a California retailer clarified the rules regarding indemnification and patent infringement, write Stephen P....

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices appeared sympathetic Tuesday toward school officials who ordered that a 13-year-old ...

Founders of a new Web site, The Legal Workshop, will feature parsed-down, easier-to-digest versions of law reviews from Stanfo...

John Yoo, a visiting professor at Chapman University School of Law, participated in a lively debate at the school's Orange cam...

It's difficult to predict the future of patent reform, especially when even ultimate insiders get surprised, writes Bernard J....

Bankruptcy trustees are going after law firms that have counseled financially troubled clients in a bid to recover funds. A le...

A Superior Court judge on Tuesday signaled she would dismiss two high-profile damage cases lodged against Dole Food Co. Inc., ...

Riverside criminal trial Judge Timothy F. Freer, a sports enthusiast who once dreamed of being a super-agent, now uses his int...

Claremont attorney William M. Shernoff has won a multi-million dollar settlements on behalf of health plan members who had the...

In a big victory for federal prosecutors whose case seemed in jeopardy at times, a jury on Monday found South Los Angeles-base...

Celebrities' fight for privacy always involves complicated legal issues, Andrew Nicol, Andrew Sharland and Gavin Millar explai...

Recalcitrant jurors aren't the only reason why celebrities sometimes aren't convicted, writes Jean Rosenbluth. ...

An ideologically split U.S. Supreme Court appeared Monday to be concluding that a federal judge in Arizona should stop requiri...

The federal judge overseeing the stock option backdating prosecution of real estate mogul Bruce Karatz urged the two sides to ...

Practitioners who handle live entertainment performances have to be well-versed in everything from environmental ordinances to...

The Ontario school is edging closer to being the only ABA accredited institution in the Inland Empire, campus officials said. ...

In fighting proposed budget cuts, San Francisco's public defender has taken a stand that is compelled by his ethical responsib...

The Supreme Court will determine if racial discrimination was at work in an employment test, writes Cyntha O'Neill. ...

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the consumer law designed to protect against deceitful marketing in the sale of serv...

The Senate confirmed Morrison & Foerster's Tony West as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil divi...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to intervene for a second time in a long-running class action case against the estat...