Claremont attorney William M. Shernoff has won a multi-million dollar settlements on behalf of health plan members who had the...

In a big victory for federal prosecutors whose case seemed in jeopardy at times, a jury on Monday found South Los Angeles-base...

Celebrities' fight for privacy always involves complicated legal issues, Andrew Nicol, Andrew Sharland and Gavin Millar explai...

Recalcitrant jurors aren't the only reason why celebrities sometimes aren't convicted, writes Jean Rosenbluth. ...

An ideologically split U.S. Supreme Court appeared Monday to be concluding that a federal judge in Arizona should stop requiri...

The federal judge overseeing the stock option backdating prosecution of real estate mogul Bruce Karatz urged the two sides to ...

Practitioners who handle live entertainment performances have to be well-versed in everything from environmental ordinances to...

The Ontario school is edging closer to being the only ABA accredited institution in the Inland Empire, campus officials said. ...

In fighting proposed budget cuts, San Francisco's public defender has taken a stand that is compelled by his ethical responsib...

The Supreme Court will determine if racial discrimination was at work in an employment test, writes Cyntha O'Neill. ...

The state Supreme Court ruled Monday that the consumer law designed to protect against deceitful marketing in the sale of serv...

The Senate confirmed Morrison & Foerster's Tony West as assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil divi...

The U.S. Supreme Court decided Monday not to intervene for a second time in a long-running class action case against the estat...

Public agencies can use taxpayer money to inform voters about the effects of ballot measures, but must be very careful about i...

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held in a landmark decision that local governments can ban gun shows on public property ...

The surfing, bilingual Magistrate Judge Peter C. Lewis found his path following a Japanese odyssey. ...

Several years ago, Judge Bert Glennon heeded a juror's suggestion and referred a case to mediation. Since then, he's become a ...

Brian E. Cabrera was raised in a high-tech household by a nuclear engineer father. That's helped him navigate the world of non...

Hundreds of Monterey County McDonald's employees have brought a class action against the company's franchises for allegedly fo...

Newly released Office of Legal Counsel memos authorizing brutal interrogation methods have renewed calls for a criminal or imp...

Focus - The Department of Health and Human Services has indicated it will depart from "gotcha" enforcement of the Stark Law, w...

Improper service of lawsuits in Mexico could delay U.S.-Mexico litigation and void past default judgments against Mexican resi...

The purpose of social professional networking sites, such as LinkedIn, is to build relationships, writes Sharon Berman. ...

Would-be associates at the top firms should think long and hard about what they're getting themselves into, cautions Edwin Ree...

When Superior Court Judge David Mintz was denied the only surgery that doctors said could save his life, he sued to receive tr...

Councilman Jack Weiss says his opponent Carmen "Nuch" Trutanich could be tainted by his private practice representing potentia...

Requiring the obligor to pay more than the parent can afford often creates other consequences that negatively affect the child...

Political law, a niche practice in California, is holding steady as other practice areas recede in response to the bad economy...

Thousands of criminal convictions are called to question in San Bernardino, Riverside and San Diego Counties. ...

The so-called "endangerment finding" promises to transform the federal government's role in addressing climate change, giving ...