Forum Column - By Patrick Mattimore - Though there is still much work to be done, China has made enormous strides toward estab...

Caroline Vincent started building her alternative dispute resolution career 21 years ago, long before the lawyer-to-mediator p...

Focus Column - By Peter S. Selvin - The tripartite relationship between insured, insurer and counsel appointed by the insurer ...

EBay Inc. revealed a redacted version of a complaint filed in Delaware Chancery Court against Craigslist's controlling shareho...

A Ventura County man convicted of impersonating a lawyer and defrauding 17 "clients" of $50,000 has been sentenced to nine yea...

Plaintiffs who take home awards for emotional distress could be under increased scrutiny from the Internal Revenue Service fol...

Employment Column - By D. Gregory Valenza - A simple, well-intentioned law addressing meal-period requirements has turned into...

A former Orange County deputy public defender has been convicted of stalking an ex-girlfriend and sending her harassing e-mail...

The White House has nominated San Diego County Superior Court Judge Michael N. Anello to be a judge on the U.S. District Court...

Did it really take an anonymous prison inmate to alert the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that it had a critical problem wi...

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury has awarded more than $15 million in compensatory damages to a teenager who suffered permane...

The first personal injury trial against drugmaker Pfizer over its painkiller Bextra was postponed indefinitely, leading an exp...

Forum Column - By Kurt Melchior - Trial lawyers who get picked as jury members have a unique perspective during the process.

The Los Angeles office of Dykema has gained Monica J. Frascona as an associate in the firm's litigation department. To find ou...

U.S. Court of Appeals judges Richard Posner and Stephen Reinhardt are engaged in a war of words. Reinhardt takes aim at Posner...

Disgraced private investigator Anthony Pellicano told a jury Wednesday he was "effectively a lone ranger" who ran a successful...

Artist Kent Twitchell will receive $1.1 million to settle a lawsuit he filed after workers painted over his mural that had gra...

Securities litigation partner George H. Brown is staying in Palo Alto but leaving Heller Ehrman's office for that of Gibson, D...

Judges and arbitrators can rest easy that they won't derail their cases by being candid about tangential connections to the pa...

Forum Column - By Hirbod Rashidi - The Supreme Court's recent death penalty ruling, with its multiple opinions, revealed how t...

Focus Column - By Michael C. McMahon - New legislation allows judges more discretion to grant or deny petitions for expungemen...

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs is engaged in a systemic violation of its duty to provide veterans with timely and app...

Web Exclusive - By Rebecca U. Cho - Bruce S. Ross, a veteran litigator who represents the estate of late celebrity Anna Nicole...

Sweeping patent reform legislation may have stalled in Congress, but lawmakers have pressed ahead in recent days with the remn...

Clayton Brennan's election to the bench in 2006 illustrates how far the onetime newcomer has come in adapting to Mendocino Cou...

The city of Half Moon Bay asked the Legislature Wednesday to rescue it from an $18 million screw-up by granting it a special e...

A bogus attorney convicted of practicing law after stealing the identity of a U.S. Army lawyer for the second time in a decade...

Southern California is poised to generate a whole new area of intellectual properties - spurred by stem-cell research and pers...

Nossaman Guthner Knox & Elliott's Los Angeles office has added two associates. See our roundup of comings and goings at th...

In downtown Los Angeles, one long-time druggist laments that his ability to help shut-in seniors will be hampered. ...