“What more fitting than a day like today, when we mourn the loss on Sept. 11 … and at the same time honor and respect those me...

A loophole in state law allows Los Angeles city building officials to ignore a once-celebrated crackdown on landlords who expo...

When he settles a case, Riverside neutral James D. Ward says, he feels like he just hit a home run. ...

The owners of a hilltop avocado ranch above the village of La Conchita have agreed to turn over their property, farm equipment...

Acts wholly performed in another country that would otherwise be infringement here are beyond the scope of the Copyright Act, ...

Whether the Western Division champion Angels will have to give hometown Anaheim better prominence in the team's official name ...

The pre-emptive arrests performed by police before and during the Republican National Convention were about politics, not safe...

There is a full plate of federal legislation affecting employers, whoever the new president will be, write Michael S. Kalt and...

Trial graphics give jurors shortcuts to understanding that are engaging, comprehensive and memorable, writes G. Christopher Ri...

Sanford Litvack's involvement in the case only deepens the mystery of whether the government will challenge the Google-Yahoo d...

Web Exclusive - Consumer attorneys said they would seek to block a $25 million settlement between the state and Health Net ove...

Bay Area attorney Thomas Frankovich has filed hundreds of lawsuits against businesses that weren't accessible to the disabled....

Los Angeles-based Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has landed the former director of the New York regional office of the U.S. Secur...

Under a law passed by Congress this summer, dozens of cases that accuse telecommunications companies like AT&T of cooperat...

Barbara Lynn Major excels as a magistrate judge, much as she did as a world-class swimmer. ...

"We've also put together a bench book for judges, if, God forbid, they have to hear an election contest," Alabama attorney H. ...

Ligand Pharmaceuticals will pay the Salk Institute for Biological Studies, a not-for-profit research group, $9.5 million immed...

The Los Angeles County Superior Court has selected Charles McCoy to serve as its presiding judge for 2009-2010, while Lee Edmo...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling protects the rights of junior lien holders in cases where the debtor sells assets in a Chapter 11 ...

Today a group of patients who's insurance was dropped, health care advocates and nurses hope to remind Schwarzenegger of that ...

Plaintiffs' lawyers argue that Apple, in an attempt to enforce an exclusive agreement with AT&T Mobility, electronically d...

The former CEO of UnitedHealth Group, one of the nation’s largest health insurers, agreed Wednesday to pay $30 million and to ...

A federal appellate panel Wednesday rejected a Los Angeles lawyer's argument that his client deserved resentencing by a new ju...

As a new criminal court judge in Sonoma County, and as a service dog trainer, Dana Simonds works to turn lives around. ...

Latham & Watkins has acquired a capital markets specialist for its Hong Kong corporate department.

City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo is once again facing scrutiny over millions of dollars paid to outside law firms representing t...

Dennis Montali is the new chief judge of the 9th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel. But he didn't get a pay raise. ...

Although amendments to Family Code Section 2337 were intended to afford both parties greater protection, the burden put on the...

A recent state high court decision gives lawyers and clients a significant new choice about how they arbitrate their disputes,...

Although national health care reform is front and center on the political stage, little attention is being paid to an equally ...