Housing advocates say the multibillion-dollar deal announced Monday by Attorney General Jerry Brown to settle predatory lendin...

A fight between the State Bar and backers of a controversial study on affirmative action in law schools has moved to a new ven...

Satellite TV company Echostar Communications Corp. will have to pay $104 million in patent infringement damages to Alviso-base...

A federal judge on Monday sentenced a cooperating witness in the Milberg Weiss case to three months in prison, rejecting for a...

The moral of the city's failed efforts to build an airport in Palmdale: If you can’t build it, they won’t come, no matter how ...

A legal showdown between a coalition of Hollywood studios and a Seattle-based company that is trying to sell a product that wo...

A federal judge has rejected a last-ditch defense attempt to kick off the assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting former Orange C...

Richard J. Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor and state education secretary, had his law license suspended briefly for fail...

Web Exclusive - A San Diego County Superior Court judge Monday declared a mistrial in a closely watched sexual harassment laws...

Web Exclusive - Prosecutors said Monday they would drop two charges that hung the jury deciding the options case against forme...

While Silicon Valley's Cooley Godward Kronish nabbed 15 partners from Heller Ehrman's Venture Law Group last week, several Was...

The prospective waiver of liability is a misguided effort at by mediators that lets them off the hook from performing ethicall...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has named a new pro bono director.

Judge George Wu questions the criminal theory at the heart of the case, with lawyers expected to file briefs Monday.

Beverly Hills trial lawyer Paul Kiesel lobbied to preserve court review in the rescue bill in order to protect 50 class action...

Sarah Palin's need for a CliffsNotes version of important Supreme Court cases highlights the dangers a McCain presidency would...

White & Case is beefing up its intellectual property practice, snagging a group of five McDermott, Will & Emery partne...

A Bel Air man won a $957,700 arbitration award against companies he alleged sold him a bike with defects that caused him to tu...

A federal judge has kept alive a class action claim that Apple Inc. violated antitrust law by disabling any iPhone that a cons...

U.S. District Judge George P. Schiavelli announced he will join dispute resolution shop JAMS as a private judge as well as the...

Friday's announcement by Cooley Godward Kronish ended speculation over where some of the prominent members of the dissolving H...

Web Exclusive - U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel of San Francisco late Friday halted a daylong courthouse shuffle over RealNe...

The Los Angeles County Commission on Disabilities will present the Jane Small Advocacy Award to the HIV & AIDS Legal Servi...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling on timely filings shows how the interests of justice are best served by a more forgiving approach ...

Alec Baldwin’s new book on divorce and custody promotes a controversial legal strategy that places abused children in danger, ...

A federal jury on Friday returned a not guilty verdict on two counts of mail fraud against McAfee Inc.'s former general counse...

Nancy Hudgins is seeking a new intellectual pursuit, and it's not a game of chess or advanced mathematics. It's conflict resol...

Term limits exacerbate some of the pathologies of the political process, such as overly quick policy responses and insufficien...

Picture this: You and your partner have not been contributing equally to your business or seeing eye to eye for quite some tim...

A jury has awarded $3.1 million to an officer who claimed the Los Angeles Police Department retaliated against him for accusin...