Retired Santa Clara County Judge John Flaherty does what he loves in retirement — settling cases. ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's board of trustees Wednesday decided against taking a stand on a controversial resolut...

It's time for SAG to put its full efforts into crafting the best deal it can get, rather than try to derail the AFTRA primetim...

When an employer declines to undertake an employee's defense and a third-party suit proceeds to judgment, the employee's indem...

Those who decry the Supreme Court's ruling on Guantanamo detainees would do well to heed Benjamin Franklin's admonition: "They...

When the Lakers need a last second basket, they look to league MVP Kobe Bryant. Behind the scenes, when team executives need h...

"Whiting-out" a date stamp on a fax. Blocking file names on a computer hard drive. Asking employees through e-mails to keep th...

Handing a win to California businesses, the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday struck down a state ban on private employers using tax...

A former Morrison & Foerster attorney has joined six-attorney family law boutique Phillips Jessner, uniting with four othe...

Employees have a right to expect some privacy for their text messages, a federal appellate court held Wednesday. ...

For the first time in 30 years since the U.S. Supreme Court held that a midday radio broadcast of George Carlin's "seven dirty...

The California Supreme Court should overturn the 4th District Court of Appeal's recent 'Greentree' decision and instruct lower...

Rik Toulon, an entertainment and media partner with Katten Muchin Rosenman since 2001, has joined CBS' new film production div...

An appellate court on Tuesday upheld a jury's verdict from last year that millionaire real estate investor Alan Casden owed no...

California lawyers were deeply involved in last week's Google-Yahoo advertising deal, which could bring in as much as $800 mil...

Last month, Peggy Rodgers mediated a small claims case between Barbara Black and Dennis Truitt in a hallway at the Los Angeles...

Congress appears close to an agreement on new surveillance legislation that civil liberties groups fear would grant retroactiv...

Yahoo's advertising partnership with rival Google is drawing protest from plaintiffs' attorneys, who view it as a transparent ...

A retired Orange County judge settled a lawsuit Wednesday in which he charged the city of Highland with negligence in the deat...

Jones Day's Silicon Valley office has grabbed a Bingham McCutchen litigator as a partner in its intellectual property practice.

Orange County billionaire and philanthropist Henry Samueli escaped the first round of criminal indictments connected to Broadc...

It came as quite a surprise to a couple of judicial candidates May 16 when Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appointed Jacki C. Brown...

The chances of a bill that would add dozens of federal judgeships in California passing this year took a hit Tuesday when Rep...

A designer at the core of a legal tug-of-war over ownership of the Bratz doll line on Tuesday flatly denied coming up with the...

Surrounded by more than a hundred cheering family members and friends in a park behind the clerk's offices, Stephen Weir and J...

Attorneys who find themselves in trouble with the State Bar could soon face more unwanted publicity. ...

California's Rules of Professional Responsibility and the cases interpreting them determine when an attorney and/or an entire ...

One of Anthony Pellicano's co-defendants is asking for a new trial, alleging misconduct by the prosecution and jury, as well a...

The chief executive of the federal court in California's Central District will leave her post in September to oversee the trou...

Web Exclusive - The San Diego City Council has unanimously approved a $4.3 million settlement in a malpracice suit against the...