A legal showdown between a coalition of Hollywood studios and a Seattle-based company that is trying to sell a product that wo...

A federal judge has rejected a last-ditch defense attempt to kick off the assistant U.S. attorneys prosecuting former Orange C...

Richard J. Riordan, the former Los Angeles mayor and state education secretary, had his law license suspended briefly for fail...

Web Exclusive - A San Diego County Superior Court judge Monday declared a mistrial in a closely watched sexual harassment laws...

Web Exclusive - Prosecutors said Monday they would drop two charges that hung the jury deciding the options case against forme...

While Silicon Valley's Cooley Godward Kronish nabbed 15 partners from Heller Ehrman's Venture Law Group last week, several Was...

The prospective waiver of liability is a misguided effort at by mediators that lets them off the hook from performing ethicall...

The Legal Aid Foundation of Los Angeles has named a new pro bono director.

Judge George Wu questions the criminal theory at the heart of the case, with lawyers expected to file briefs Monday.

Beverly Hills trial lawyer Paul Kiesel lobbied to preserve court review in the rescue bill in order to protect 50 class action...

Sarah Palin's need for a CliffsNotes version of important Supreme Court cases highlights the dangers a McCain presidency would...

White & Case is beefing up its intellectual property practice, snagging a group of five McDermott, Will & Emery partne...

A Bel Air man won a $957,700 arbitration award against companies he alleged sold him a bike with defects that caused him to tu...

A federal judge has kept alive a class action claim that Apple Inc. violated antitrust law by disabling any iPhone that a cons...

U.S. District Judge George P. Schiavelli announced he will join dispute resolution shop JAMS as a private judge as well as the...

Friday's announcement by Cooley Godward Kronish ended speculation over where some of the prominent members of the dissolving H...

Web Exclusive - U.S. District Judge Marilyn Patel of San Francisco late Friday halted a daylong courthouse shuffle over RealNe...

The Los Angeles County Commission on Disabilities will present the Jane Small Advocacy Award to the HIV & AIDS Legal Servi...

A recent 9th Circuit ruling on timely filings shows how the interests of justice are best served by a more forgiving approach ...

Alec Baldwin’s new book on divorce and custody promotes a controversial legal strategy that places abused children in danger, ...

A federal jury on Friday returned a not guilty verdict on two counts of mail fraud against McAfee Inc.'s former general counse...

Nancy Hudgins is seeking a new intellectual pursuit, and it's not a game of chess or advanced mathematics. It's conflict resol...

Term limits exacerbate some of the pathologies of the political process, such as overly quick policy responses and insufficien...

Picture this: You and your partner have not been contributing equally to your business or seeing eye to eye for quite some tim...

A jury has awarded $3.1 million to an officer who claimed the Los Angeles Police Department retaliated against him for accusin...

Letters to the Editor - Parties in coerced arbitrations never see justice.

Government approvals are arguably the most challenging aspect for foreign investors of completing a deal in China, writes Simo...

Employers must work closely with employees who need accomodations and employees' doctors to review all determine if the employ...

Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor and her former colleague, Justice Stephen Breyer, warned Thursday that a flo...

Environmentalists launched a new wave of attacks against the Bush administration's treatment of endangered species Thursday, f...