Focus Column - By Michael Paul Thomas - Regardless of the type of case, or experience level of the participants, certain issue...

A top official at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs testified Thursday that it took three years for the Veterans Health ...

The computer programmer who built Anthony Pellicano's wiretapping system squabbled with the federal prosecutor cross-examining...

Superior Court judges have elected criminal defense attorney Alan Ira Rubin to serve as the court's newest commissioner. ...

A state appeals court has upheld a $1.25 million award to a female police officer who alleged her supervisors in the Whittier ...

Employment Column - By David Martinez and Hernaldo Baltodano - A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision speaks to the admissibilit...

Yolo County Superior Court Judge Doris Shockley is retiring, but her disappearance from the bench at the county courthouse in ...

Santa Monica mediator Richard E. Posell keeps up to date on advances in entertainment and intellectual property law through ex...

Web Exclusive - By Linda Rapattoni - California Senate leader Don Perata will carry a measure to hike court fees and criminal ...

Web Exclusive - By Cortney Fielding - A San Francisco judge has denied auto-insurance giant Allstate's bid to block a rate dec...

The California Supreme Court slashed $200 million from a whopping $500 million jury verdict against biotech giant Genentech on...

Surfwear company Quicksilver Inc., maker of clothing lines Roxy and Quicksilver Roxy, has won a federal injunction against a r...

Forum Column - By I. Nelson Rose - The Justice Department's war of intimidation against Internet gambling has been effective, ...

Ruling in a long-running, contentious legal battle between San Bernardino and an adult cabaret, the California Supreme Court o...

Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and goings at the state's law firms, legal or...

Carole E. Handler, vice chair of Foley & Lardner's intellectual property litigation practice, has left the firm for Chicag...

Public interest lawyers who sued L.A. County's Board of Supervisors five years ago for sacrificing hospital beds to budget cut...

A mentally disabled Mexican immigrant must be deported despite a claim he will be tortured if he is returned to his homeland, ...

San Diego attorney Michael L. Crowley hopes to improve the image of criminal defense attorneys. "People have an idea about it,...

The government was back in federal court Wednesday in an effort to dismiss claims by plaintiffs who say they were illegally sp...

Labor and employment firm Littler Mendelson is set to open an office in Detroit May 1. Motor City brings to 45 the number of o...

A state appeals court on Wednesday made it tougher for elder abuse victims to get punitive damages from church-owned nursing h...

Focus Column - By Michael M. Mullins - Anyone seeking to enter into a municipal contract must determine how an enforceable con...

Riverside County's supervising criminal court judge dismissed two felony cases for lack of available judges to hear them this ...

Just one day after a riot broke out at a Lancaster detention center, federal officials began moving dozens of immigrants out t...

A computer programmer testified Wednesday that he did not know the wiretapping system he built was being used by private inves...

Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - John Yoo and the other Justice Department lawyers were an integral part of a criminal conspi...

Affordable housing developers receiving state tax credits are not required to pay workers prevailing wages, a Court of Appeal ...

Web Exclusive - By Laura Ernde - More than a decade after a scandal involving eggs stolen from a University of California, Irv...

Web Exclusive - By Linda Rapattoni - Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a measure into law Wednesday that enables the judiciary...