Sen. Barbara Boxer is putting her reputation in jeopardy by holding up the nomination of a well-qualified judge to the federal...

Web Exclusive - The San Diego City Council Tuesday approved a $2.8 million settlement with the law firm of Orrick Herrington &...

Web Exclusive - A report by Cornerstone Research and Stanford University Law School’s Securities Class Action Clearinghouse fo...

On Tuesday, the non-profit Al-Haramain Islamic Foundation filed an amended complaint against the U.S. government that alleges ...

Sheppard Mullin adds patent litigator as special counsel.

Law in many ways is like fiction, with motivation, character and even reality being endlessly revealed, writes Nora Quinn. - F...

At least the judge soon will know why the entire Los Angeles-based U.S. attorney’s office — except two Orange County prosecuto...

A trucking industry group sued the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach Monday after months of wrangling over the ports' plans ...

John McCain, McCain, once a beacon of hope for many who support immigration reform, has succumbed to conservatives and is slow...

Statutory limited liability serves the legislative objective of promoting new business risk, though at times individual credit...

A damning Justice Department report issued Monday found that the most egregious example of inappropriate political interferenc...

A federal appeals court has ruled the Bush administration must provide bond hearings to immigrants held in prolonged detention...

Sex offenders have a constitutional right to testify in a civil commitment proceeding over their lawyer's objection before a j...

Afam Onyema decided to forgo a promising career in corporate law to help start a foundation to raise money for a hospital that...

Richard Scheuler embarked on his legal career in an ailing VW bug. Now he presides over a misdemeanor calendar in Tehama Coun...

Vista Judge David J. Danielsen, like Mark Twain, who he physically and philosophically resembles, appreciates the comedic and ...

Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr opened its Los Angeles office about a year ago and has now burst onto the scene, secur...

New statute does not revoke previous rule.

The State Bar will honor Los Angeles County Public Defender Michael P. Judge with a 2008 diversity award.

U.S. District Judge Manuel L. Real of Los Angeles, no stranger to criticism by federal appellate panels, now has come under th...

Wanderlust once led Mark Curry around the world. Now the former star prosecutor has embarked on a new adventure, as a member o...

A state appellate court Friday endorsed a new defense for price-fixing cases in California. ...

The state's HMO watchdog agency this month closed its sweeping yearlong investigation into the insurance industry's controvers...

The process of filing a writ petition is fraught with opportunities for missteps, writes Joan Wolff. - Focus Column ...

What radio host Michael Savage said about minority children and those with autism is nothing short of hate-speech directed at ...

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli ...

A state appeal court has reversed roughly $1.1 million in sanctions against plaintiffs and their attorneys in a toxic tort law...

While Edna Funes sat in a San Bernardino jail last week awaiting an immigration trial, her 5-year-old, U.S.-born son sat at ho...

In a society that professes to worship diversity, an able, civic-minded fellow should be able to question orthodoxy without ni...

Federal prosecutors unveiled six recordings of private eye Anthony Pellicano feeding attorney Terry N. Christensen intimate de...