The Wyeth v. Levine decision is a huge victory for patients injured by prescription drugs. ...

The Supreme Court's decision in Wyeth v. Levine is sure to unleash a tsunami of conflicting standards. ...

The Obama administration withdrew its offer to make Los Angeles attorney Thomas A. Saenz the head of the Justice Department's ...

While the state's landmark law to combat climate change will not take effect until 2012, an environmental law long on the book...

As a designated terrorist organization, the Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation is not the most sympathetic of plaintiffs. Yet, it ...

The damages provision of the latest set of patent reform bills suffers fundamental flaws that are likely to guarantee failure....

Economic engineering is arguably borne of the same hubris that created financial models that recently failed spectacularly. ...

Free speech online or blatant defamation? A Santa Clara County Superior Court judge has been asked to clarify that question f...

As the new leader of two diversity-based nonprofits, Garner Weng has one immediate task: Do more with less. The challenges fac...

Major operators of the multi-billion dollar private aircraft industry are opposing government efforts to collect taxes on thei...

A generation ago, law firms were staffed almost exclusively with white males - now, diversity is a top priority throughout the...

Citing increased caseloads, the federal judiciary renewed its call Tuesday for additional judgeships, including several in Cal...

Trademark owners have several options for dealing with cybersquatters who hold domain names hostage. ...

Thanks to a new state bill aimed at stemming the foreclosure crisis, lenders must now wait longer to record a notice of sale.

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

Michael J. Aguirre, the fiery former city attorney and pension reform crusader, has a new mission: making San Diego - and by e...

With the down economy, laid-off lawyers are eager to start over in solo practices with space that doesn't require long-term le...

The state Supereme Court will significantly compromise its integrity if it decides that same-sex couples aren't allowed to mar...

A "family office" model can be the best way to manage the wealth of entertainers. ...

The Obama Treasury Department needs to take a lesson from plaintiffs lawyers and cut through the AIG bonus baloney, Columnist ...

The state of California wants to remove the receiver overseeing California's prisons and replace him with a special master who...

A recent 6th District ruling will simplify pleading and put IP lawyers and business litigators are on the same footing when it...

Immigrants facing deportation because of crimes they committed long ago cannot rely on two common post-conviction challenge pr...

Legislatures and government agencies have stepped in to regulate digital marketing. ...

It's time judges stopped wringing their hands about the ethical sleaze of judicial elections and adopt rules to take money out...

Reinstating the Fairness Doctrine may or may not be a good idea ("Many Hope to Bring the Fairness Doctrine Back From the Dead,...

Long before the current recession, Douglas Ingram began trimming staff as general counsel of health care and pharmaceutical co...

Tom Perez, a former high-ranking U.S. Department of Justice official, is headed back to the department, this time as head of t...

Jeff Bleich, a partner at Munger, Tolles & Olson, immediate past president of the State Bar and a die-hard fan of Presiden...

The settled complaint, filed in federal court in Santa Ana last week, marks a third company in Southern California whose execu...