After a fiercely contested seven-week trial, a federal court jury Friday began deliberations to decide if Mattel owns the popu...

The former chair of DLA Piper's labor and employment practice section in Los Angeles, Jon D. Meer, has left his firm of six ye...

A recent ruling in which Rhode Island sought billions of dollars for lead paint abatement presents important implications for ...

Attorneys for Terry N. Christensen on Friday disputed a last-minute claim by prosecutors that Patricia Glaser, his lead defens...

Web Exclusive - U.S. District Judge Mariana Pfaelzer on Friday refused to allow a large part of the case against Countrywide F...

Ruling on a summary judgment motion, a federal judge on Friday knocked down a $140 million patent infringement claim against C...

Just as he shapes his golf shots to stay out of the rough, juvenile court Judge Harry M. Elias crafts his court decisions to g...

When the county's flagship hospital moves into its gleaming, new facility as expected this fall, the crucial institution will ...

California Should Keep Protecting the Insured

Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has named Raymond Ceragioli, 75, of Rancho Palos Verdes, to the State Council on Developmental Disa...

If you need further proof of mediation burrowing its way into mainstream culture, just turn your radio dial.

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

Edmund Willcox Clarke Jr. is back in the court where he tried his first case. This time he's the judge. ...

Alameda County Judge Cecilia Castellanos defied her mother's warning and went to law school where she learned the adversarial ...

Stephen Pickett, senior vice president and general counsel for Southern California Edison Co., is not the type to move around....

As closing arguments began in a seven-week federal copyright infringement trial, two high-powered lawyers clashed Thursday ove...

The lead attorney defending Terry N. Christensen at his upcoming trial could be disqualified from the case because she partici...

Paul Selzer, an environmental lawyer who spent three years locked in a standoff with federal prosecutors, has agreed to plead ...

An injunction and big-money settlement Rambus Inc. expected over the infringement of its memory chip technology is now in seri...

The water is murky as to whether employers must force employees to take meal breaks, or must merely make them available, write...

Services will be held July 25 for Fredric John "Jack" Zepp, 1939-2008, a retired Latham & Watkins partner, who died on his...

Defense attorneys have long complained that the financial institutions they represent have a better chance of being struck by ...

Leaning eagerly over a table at ADR Services' office, mediator Fred T. Ashley's eyes light up as he extols his love of the Ger...

The new law school at UC Irvine now has a 14-member faculty plus five senior administrators to take care of its starting class...

A recent 4th District decision establishes a bright-line rule that requires a best interests standard of review, for family la...

Attributing their success to a "Perry Mason moment," lawyers for car manufacturer Hyundai have prevailed against a former empl...

A media lawyer who fought in court and against the government on behalf of reporters and staff at the Los Angeles Times for tw...

Draconian legislation aimed at paparazzi would undermine free speech rights while doing little, if anything, to curb the exces...

The State Bar is questioning the eligibility of an attorney who won a seat on its Board of Governors: officials say they aren'...

Web Exclusive - An appellate court rejected an arbitration award because the arbitrator did not disclose past disciplinary act...