With 3.5 billion prescriptions written each year, the United States is an attractive market for those who prey on the sick, wr...

Dennis Hsieh of Neighborhood Legal Services counsels Toni Ovall at the St. John's Well Child Center in Compton. Hsieh helps ca...

In discussions with the Department of Justice, the special committee that led an internal investigation into McAfee Inc.’s sto...

The exclusionary rule is hanging on by a thread and new conservative appointments may well spell the death knell for the rule,...

Would-be plaintiffs seeking to sue anonymous Internet bloggers should take note of two recent 6th District Court of Appeal opi...

The Alameda County Superior Court is asking civil attorneys to weigh in on its new civil direct calendar system put into effec...

In a brief but often contentious hearing, federal lawmakers quizzed U.S. Department of Justice officials Tuesday over the poli...

Harmon Groesbeck Scoville, a prominent Orange County judge who served as the second presiding justice in the local appellate c...

Federal judges on the East Coast investigating 9th Circuit Chief Judge Alex Kozinski's conduct have hired national law firms D...

Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis has added a partner in its San Diego real estate and land use practice.

Although Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson told the Senate Banking Committee Tuesday that the taxpayer-funded rescue of the nat...

“You knew you weren’t getting expert craftsmanship, but I don’t think anyone realized the level of incompetence,” Janelle Brod...

Bankruptcy attorney Nancy Knupfer, a partner at Danning, Gill, Diamond & Kollitz, will be installed tonight as the eighth...

Orange County Superior Court Judge Tam Nomoto Schumann discovered the American Judges Association in 2002 and by the next year...

American service members are not allowed, for the most part, to petition the Supreme Court directly, which deprives them of de...

The Orange County Register will appeal a judge's order that bans the newspaper from reporting any testimony in an upcoming cla...

Lawyers and clients whose relationships begin as professional ones almost always have a better, clearer and more predictable p...

A federal judge denied an adult filmmaker’s motion to dismiss an obscenity indictment, ruling that then presiding Judge Alex K...

A federal appellate court changed the standard for deciding whether the design of a patented invention has been infringed.

Marjorie Knoller didn't say a word on Monday as a San Francisco County Superior Court Judge sentenced her to 15 years to life ...

Few areas of alternative dispute resolution contain more emotion than the burgeoning area of “elder abuse” cases, writes Alexa...

A federal judge on Monday rejected a motion for a new trial by Anthony Pellicano, whose attorney argued that the jury's forepe...

Meting out justice to the 15 LAPD officers accused of misconduct during the May Day melee in 2007 will be the most far-reachin...

Former Rep. Paul "Pete" McCloskey Jr., R-Calif., who ran for president against Richard Nixon during the Vietnam War, has annou...

If patent holders are a day late with their applications, they can still file an infringement lawsuit, a federal appellate cou...

Retired Judge Couldn't Stay Off the Bench, even at 93

Mark Holscher a former federal prosecutor now in private practice at Kirkland & Ellis, defends some of the most prominent ...

The Los Angeles County Bar Association's board has opposed a controversial proposal that would pay mediators who volunteer on ...

What do you do when your job is at stake, management is tight-lipped and rumors are flying that your law firm might dissolve? ...

The Senate passed the long-delayed California budget Friday and the Assembly was expected to OK it before the end of the day. ...