Refusing to examine California arbitration law, the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal seeking to force a San Di...

Bodies found in an upscale Orange County home were identified Tuesday as belonging to an accident reconstruction expert witnes...

Policymakers hoping to refine the way we learn about new drugs should not open the door to more lawsuits, writes John H. Sulli...

hree years after losing his re-election bid for mayor, James K. Hahn is seeking a return to the public life - as a judge. ...

Mediators today must shed the "one size fits all" formula and adopt an array of approaches to add much more to the process tha...

Can a onetime payment of $3,000 make up for the misery suffered by the survivors of the Holocaust? ...

Kicking off a fiercely litigated trial over a popular children's doll, a lawyer for Mattel told a federal court jury Tuesday t...

The California Supreme Court will hear arguments today in a case that could change the scope of the state's mediation confide...

The U.S. Supreme Court handed an important employment law victory to workers Tuesday, ruling that a long-standing civil rights...

Los Angeles County Superior Court Commissioner Jeffrey M. Harkavy made his career choice as a high school student and, after 2...

Washington D.C.-based Howrey has added former Heller Ehrman partner Paul Alexander to the firm's East Palo Alto office.

In these lean times, law firms are taking their cues from clients who are demanding cheaper legal services. Among the solution...

The Grand Rabbi of Spinka, the head of a Brooklyn-based Hasidic sect who faces federal charges related to an alleged tax-fraud...

The duty of reciprocal discovery presents many issues in criminal cases, writes Robert M. Martinez. - Focus Column ...

An end of an era for one firm leads to another firm's gain. ...

When lawyers think about entertainment litigation, they usually imagine a multimillion-dollardispute involving a major studio ...

In a move fueled by the inclement economic forecast, John M. Rosenthal, a former member of Nixon Peabody's managing committee,...

The California Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today on how far appellate courts should go when trying to detect racial...

A federal judge has decided to let a jury determine whether an artist sketched the concept for the popular Bratz dolls while w...

The state will argue before an appellate court today that Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger legally was empowered to order the trans...

Judge Paul P. Burdick continues to draw high-profile cases, from aerial spraying of the apple moth to a custody case that ende...

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

Self-Assessment Test by Hon. Alex Ricciardulli

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom selected Eric J. Friedman as the firm's new executive partner.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ruth A. Kwan puts in long hours, pays attention to detail, exercises her listening ski...

When the World Trade Center towers fell, David Geoffrey Brown, a third-generation Marine, re-enlisted. The San Diego County Su...

Jose Luis Nazario Jr. finished his military career as a Marine sergeant three years ago after serving in Iraq. ...

Last month, dozens of surgery centers across the state began receiving some surprising bad news: The state would not be renewi...

Current and former workers of four Los Angeles carwash establishments accused their employers of rampant wage and hour violati...

California lawmakers were blowing smoke when they limited medical marijuana users to eight ounces of the drug, a Los Angeles a...