The attorney for the former State Bar employee suspected of embezzling $675,000 from the agency said his client plans to coope...

After years of battling non-contracted hospitals about what is fair reimbursement, some health plans are simply sending a chec...

If the State Bar disciplines Thomas Frankovich, the unapologetic, cowboy boot-wearing litigator from Marin County might just b...

An online jukebox and digital entertainment company has accused its former patent counsel at Morrison & Foerster of botchi...

The 9th Circuit is known for disappointing prosecutors and corporate executives, but another constituency can be added to the ...

Public-private partnerships allow public agencies to own transportation infrastructure that are financed and built by the priv...

If banks don't implement compliance programs in accordance with the Bank Secrecy Act they risk being accused of aiding in Ponz...

Richard H. Chernick, JAMS vice president and managing director of its arbitration practice, attributes much of his success to...

Law firms are kicking off an effort to replenish supplies at food banks in anticipation of high-demand summer months. ...

Mulji Patel, 79, was convicted of attacking opposing counsel with a hammer in his workers' compensation case. He had earlier h...

A former Los Angeles police sergeant convicted alongside ex-Hollywood private eye Anthony Pellicano could be released from jai...

Ending nearly two years of litigation, Orange County hospital owner and operator Integrated Healthcare Holdings Inc. has settl...

The event scheduled for May 1 at the Bonaventure Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and hosted by Southern California chapter of th...

Nearly a year after receiving offers of employment, hundreds of law students who planned on starting lucrative careers at big ...

Paul Levine brings complex characters and an insider view of the legal system to his novel "Illegal," writes author Elaine Eli...

While payroll reductions have obvious attractions, they can be fraught with potential long-term pitfalls, advise Lonny M. Zilb...

Oakland Athletics General Counsel Steven Johnston talks about his love for baseball and how the A's do so much with one of the...

Days after being elected a court commissioner, Randolph E. Heubach witnessed the murder of his law partner by a convicted arso...

Mulji Patel, who injured his back while working at a Rockwell plant nearly three decades ago, was so frustrated he threatened ...

Intellectual property lawyers are feeling the chill of the recession. On Wednesday, San Francisco-based firm Townsend and Town...

A one-time baggage screener at Los Angeles International Airport has admitted to forging two federal judges' signature on phon...

Attorneys, judges and others are helping to start clinics in the Northern District of California to advise the growing numbers...

Countless rulings have found that schools have heightened duty to take all reasonable steps to protect students from harm, wri...

You might think that after 23 years, we would be done listing the chemicals "known" to cause cancer or reproductive toxicity -...

Mike Willemsen reviews the documentary "Witch Hunt," which explores prosecutors run amok and small town hysteria. ...

In baseball and mediation, the opposing forces, competing obligations and weapons of combat all converge at home plate, writes...

Los Angeles City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo said Wednesday that College Hospital in Costa Mesa had agreed to a settlement, an i...

Figuring out what the voters intended when passing ballot measures isn't always easy, especially when those voters are weighin...

Santiago "Sam" Fernandez joined the Los Angeles Dodgers as their general counsel in 1984 after a year spent "on loan" with the...

Mircea Achiriloaie, an attorney with the Thousand Oaks-based plant biotech company Ceres Inc., warns that proposed reforms to ...