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

Using foreclosures for this mortgage mess is like cutting glass with a hammer. ...

Litigator Valentine Hoy, 49, left Luce, Forward, Hamilton & Scripps after 24 years, where he represented businesses, inves...

Two Los Angeles residents who shared a Rancho Palos Verdes home with relatives running a brothel have lost their bid to cash i...

Attorneys in an antitrust class action suit against television networks and cable companies have gone "all in" - in poker spea...

Allowing D.C. to have a vote in the House is plainly unconstitutional. ...

The deep economic recession that has ratcheted up demand for restructuring work is making bankruptcy lawyers a very hot commod...

The recession is providing firms a chance to exercise new clarity of thinking when it comes to firm structure and hiring. ...

A state appellate court shot down on Friday a Santa Clara County judge's attempt to revamp the state parole board, which has b...

Loma Linda Medical Center is told it must pay $5.8 million in damages to a patient and his wife for a botched back surgery. Th...

Lawyers defending beleaguered mortgage lenders have received a life line from a federal judge in Santa Ana who cast one compan...

Courts use a sliding-scale balancing test when determining the "forseeability" of certain crimes. ...

Lee Smalley Edmon is poised to be elevated to presiding judge of the Los Angeles County Superior Court in 2011. She will be th...

Hustling for business is more important than ever. ...

Justice Douglas P. Miller has won over even one-time adversaries with his professionalism and impartiality. ...

From the brink of delinquency to a Harvard Law School graduate dedicated to public service, Orange County Superior Court Judge...

With some popular weight loss procedures losing their patents soon, like LAP-BAND surgery, there is a rush to find the next bi...

A jury has quashed a Dubai company's attempt to collect more than $11 million from Pasadena-based Parsons Corp. for backing ou...

Los Angeles County Superior Court class action filings have increased nearly 105 percent over the last five years. At the stat...

Aviva Bobb, best known for presiding over the McMartin preschool molestation trial, will join Alternative Resolution Centers t...

As confidential information today is largely stored electronically, companies have turned to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act....

Latin American countries are leapfrogging the United States in the fight for LGBT rights. ...

The value of a securities class action settlement took a nosedive in 2008, dropping by more than 50 percent, according to a ne...

In an effort to protect immigrants from exploitation, Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., introduced legislation Thursday that wo...

Haley J. Fromholz likes to mix it up every dozen years or so. He spent the first 12 years after graduating from Duke law scho...

Resolving discovery disputes through mediation may be a springboard to settling the case. ...

A little consideration before layoffs are made costs very little, requires no lawyer and can make all the difference. ...

A state appellate court Thursday rejected Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton's attempt to get out of a conflict of interest...

The city of Oakland has filed five lawsuits - and threatened more - against major banks and local real estate companies and a...

A slew of lawsuits blaming a diabetes medication for patients' heart failures, strokes and deaths are pouring into California ...