The 4th District Court of Appeal on Tuesday struck down class status for about 60,000 California restaurant workers who sued o...

California e-discovery rules are coming. And in the wonky world of civil procedure, technical distinctions have provoked a deb...

Web Exclusive - A West Hollywood lawyer was arrested Tuesday and charged with attempted lewd acts on a child a year after he a...

Wildman Harrold snags Foley & Lardner media and entertainment chair.

Yolo County deputy sheriffs sparked outrage by locking the courthouse in Woodland during the arraignment of a man suspected of...

The ongoing battle, spearhead by Rep. Linda Sanchez, D-Los Angeles, against the rise of mandatory arbitration agreements has g...

The government's tax evasion case against "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis moved to Los Angeles on Monday as the producer...

San Diego County will receive the lion's share of the appointments - eight. The governor's office named 22 other attorneys to ...

Mediation, though a sidecar to the Harley of litigation, is not a legal proceeding. It is a consensual, collaborative, interes...

Los Angeles is in the center of the nation's water wars because it imports such a large percentage of its water from far-away ...

Vanessa Wells, who represents insurance companies in California administrative and regulatory matters, jumped from Heller Ehrm...

A South Bay litigator, beachcomber and community figure died last week from liver failure. ...

Mediation communications are inadmissible as evidence even when parties voluntarily discuss them in court, the state Supreme C...

Entering high school at 12 and law school at 50, Commissioner Elizabeth Munisoglu carved out a unique route from rural New Jer...

A Riverside County judge declared a mistrial Monday after a jury announced it could not reach a verdict on a second degree mur...

Web Exclusive - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Wednesday afternoon signed legislation to increase State Bar dues $10 starting i...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis has picked up Keith Paul Bishop as a partner in the firm's Orange County office.

Bob Page, left, and Bill Davis learned the world in the Peace Corps. Now they are teaching the world about the rule of law thr...

LOS ANGELES - A representative of the Pacific Maritime Association, which represents shippers on the West Coast, said dockwork...

Timothy B. McOsker said his move was not influenced by the fact that the firm's managing partner, Terry N. Christensen, is on ...

The state Supreme Court has held that, when a claim goes to arbitration, discovery disputes involving parties that are not in ...

Deliberate indifference. That is the key to deciding whether the Poway Unified School District should be held liable for damag...

It is unconscionable that some legal residents are being deported for minor infractions, write John Hall and Marisa Cianciarul...

In the coverage of this year's Supreme Court term, commentators have not recognized that the court unanimously overruled a 15-...

A prominent La Mesa attorney was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to possessing child pornography. ...

A federal judge ruled that documents seized from private eye Anthony Pellicano's computers are authentic. But U.S. District Ju...

When federal immigration agents arrived at Edna Funes' Van Nuys home this month, the 46-year-old Guatemalan national refused t...

Before hearing an Ethiopian woman's request for asylum, Judge Harry L. Gastley of Las Vegas took the opportunity to condemn th...

In the wake of the collapse of IndyMac bank, legal ethics experts are saying lawyers may face discipline or be found liable of...

Los Angeles-based Inner City Law Center has brought on David Ackerly to head the expansion of its homeless veterans' project. ...