Despite the troubled economy, the new law school at UC Irvine is making decent progress toward its goal of giving full scholar...

The family of a Salinas man will receive $150,000 instead of $6 million for his wrongful death by Taser shock, a federal judge...

Too many of us have been flattered into accepting the lie that we have no legitimate right to expect anything positive from go...

Public law firms are not automatically disqualified from a case when a conflict of interest arises with a previous client, the...

A nationwide suit that accuses the federal Social Security Administration of routinely discriminating against more than 1,000 ...

The Judicial Council has approved new complaint procedures for parties unhappy with their court-connected mediators. ...

Peer-to-peer technology has hit a sour note with the entertainment industry in recent years, resulting in dozens of bitter leg...

Thanks to the outdated Electoral College, our country uses an undemocratic system to elect a democratic president, writes Mark...

The Federal Maritime Commission could ask a federal court as early as today to block the Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach ...

Business lobbyists wrestling with the prospect of firm Democratic control of the federal government received advice about purs...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit signalled Thursday it is going back to basics when determining whether inven...

In emotion-packed child support court, even-tempered Commissioner Randall W. Magnuson keeps the peace. ...

Why would traditional marriage be threatened by two people who love each other?

At 84, former Superior Court Judge Isabella Horton Grant is still going strong as a mediator.

Hanson Bridgett has added four attorneys to its health care and real estate groups in Sacramento.

"This is one of the strongest patent cases I've ever had," Morrison & Foerster partner Harold McElhinny of San Francisco s...

Cerebral and unassuming, Alicia G. Rosenberg knows how to keep lawyers on point. ...

A Nigerian man's three widows and two of his sons covered their faces and sobbed in court Wednesday as an attorney showed juro...

The race for Seat 82 of the Los Angeles County Superior Court has been fraught with questions of emotion and control. Thomas R...

In the wake of management's recommendation to dissolve the firm, Thelen's approximately 400 attorneys are scrambling to find n...

After many of their U.S. colleagues have landed at new firms, Heller Ehrman attorneys in London are finally finding new homes....

The Federal Circuit recently upheld an important test as the standard for determining whether a design patent has been infring...

The LAPD can claim credit for the things it has done to address racial bias, but with the stark disparities shown by the ACLU ...

A state appeals court on Wednesday overturned a $1.5 million jury verdict against City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo for firing a ...

Where the LAPD sees crime reduction in neighborhoods with a significant police presence, the ACLU misses the forest for the tr...

A federal prosecutor Wednesday morning drew a sharp contrast between Orange County's public Sheriff Mike Carona and the "secre...

A federal jury has awarded San Diego's Sempra Energy $48.5 million, agreeing with claims that an insurance adviser negligently...

Reed Smith nabs a former Morrison & Foerster partner for its Silicon Valley-based corporate practice group.

In a landmark human rights abuse trial that began Tuesday with opening statements in San Francisco federal court, Robert A. Mi...

While there have been large bankruptcies in the past, few have involved companies of the size or scope of AIG, and even fewer ...