At issue is whether the instruction the state court judge gave to the jury during the trial of Michael Pulido was a harmless e...

Ingrid A. Uhler says that being a judge is a lot like being a parent - juggling tasks at home helped prepare her to be flexi...

Alana Knaster, who served as president of the Mediation Institute, stands at Pebble Beach in Monterey County, where she is now...

The Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach could face another legal challenge to their efforts to dramatically cut diesel truck p...

Without the $700 billion bailout, the pace of foreclosures would have continued to increase, exacerbating the decline in home ...

Orange County philanthropist Henry Samueli said Tuesday he would stick by his troubled plea deal with prosecutors, even thoug...

Two East Coast law firms announced on Tuesday the next round of acquisitions from San Francisco's firm-in-dissolution, Heller ...

A federal trial judge was wrong to invalidate a San Jose campaign finance law, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals held Tues...

The state can't exclude abused men from government-funded domestic violence programs, a state appellate court ruled Tuesday. ...

The federal jury that will hear the corruption trial against former Orange County Sheriff Mike Carona likely will learn that a...

A patent dispute in Southern California over a compound used for making an anti-cancer drug will be resolved by the U.S. Supre...

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit vacated an exclusion order barring the importation of wireless devices conta...

There are several reasons why a committee and its counsel are better served by the extra protection of an exculpation clause i...

San Diego jurist John S. Meyer is approachable in court, and lawyers who have cases before him like it that way. ...

The appellate firm of Horvitz & Levy has added two associates to its Encino office.

"The Buddhist tradition is to find a solution through communication, not courts or police," said Suon In, pictured right, a mo...

Job prospects dimmed for former Orange County prosecutor Vickie L. Hix after she campagined against her boss in a district at...

San Francisco police evacuated part of the Embarcadero West office building Monday after a man showed up at Lief Cabraser with...

KPMG must pay a former Corona company $31.8 million under a jury verdict in which Newport Beach lawyers accused the Big Four a...

A lawyer who was slated to race in the Ironman triathlon was forced to pull out after a crash with a car left him with serious...

Parental involvement laws do not transform dysfunctional families into stable and supportive ones. They simply give pregnant t...

A recent appellate decision tells us that the trial court has discretion in dividing the community interest in survivor benefi...

everal years ago, when partners at the Los Angeles office of Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom started thinking about a...

Web Exclusive - Lawyers for defendants in the Broadcom stock-option backdating case joined in a motion that aggressively probe...

For years, patent attorneys representing defendants complained about being forced to try infringement cases in the Eastern Dis...

Mediator and attorney Len Levy remembers being glued to public access television in 2006, as the Los Angeles City Council, fla...

Winston & Strawn adds a labor and employment litigator in Los Angeles.

Open government advocates won a victory last week when a judge ruled that the city's practice of using internal city codes to ...

The prevailing theme Friday as officials laid out a plan for trial court funding was, it could have been much worse. ...

A new regulation will impose fines on ER doctors who send patients the bill instead of sorting it out with health plans. But m...