A former reporter testified Wednesday that erstwhile Hollywood titan Michael Ovitz hired private investigator Anthony Pellican...

Few would disagree that the future of Milberg Weiss Bershad & Schulman grew progressively dimmer over the past year as, on...

In a rare move, a federal judge has blocked a Medicare pilot project in the San Diego area that was intended to cut costs by f...

A Washington-based brewing company has reached a wage-and-hour settlement through mediation with current and former employees,...

Stockton family violence judge Anthony P. Lucaccini says he has 'sent more people to prison than most' but supports alternativ...

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...

Intellectual property and other intangible assets can be a source of significant value during sales transactions, including th...

From medical device companies to digital media Web sites, the diversity of companies pushing the boundaries of intellectual pr...

Bruce Sewell graduated from the George Washington University Law School, which boasts one of the nation's leading intellectual...

Patent litigation increasingly looks like the next frontier as more lawyers from defense firms jump sides to launch practice g...

Three of California's most aggressive and highest-profile litigators are set to square off this summer in one of the state's h...

Patent attorneys like Lee Van Pelt, who has a successful small patent firm, demonstrate the growing importance of intellectual...

The massive pornographic movie industry that populates the San Fernando Valley has been as much a victim - if not more - of in...

Government and university research institutions are major players in the patent world, parlaying their inventions into big mon...

The day before Stac Electronics' landmark patent infringement case against Microsoft started trial, the Northridge earthquake ...

A lauded retired judge sitting by assignment for the Administrative Office of the Courts has been taken off his cases followin...

A former Beverly Hills police officer testified Tuesday that he provided sensitive law enforcement information to notorious pr...

A feud between one of the nation's largest labor unions and its West Coast affiliate has spilled into federal court. ...

Marshall T. Hunt, 1920-2008, a prominent Los Angeles trial attorney known for successfully defending Ford Motor Co. in a high-...

Forum Column - By Andrew Bridges - A landmark decision will hopefully provide a case study of the effects of "permanent specia...

Forum Column - By Kurt Osenbaugh - Transaction attorneys should give litigators a break by drafting comprehensible agreements ...

Web Exclusive - By Laura Ernde - Private plaintiffs' firms can continue to help California cities and counties pursue litigati...

San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera waded headlong into a debate in Congress about the future of mandatory arbitration ...

A federal judge Tuesday denied a motion by Mattel's lawyers to bar high-profile Los Angeles attorney Tom Nolan and his firm, S...

An Orange County judge with a history of misconduct on the bench has agreed to retire after a judicial panel publicly admonish...

He was on a hit list. His plane clipped the wing of another. He foiled an armed robbery. He survived and now sits on an Orange...

Too much of a good thing can be, well, too much of a good thing. The writers and editors of the Daily Journal found that out r...

Web Exclusive - By Rebecca U. Cho - Find out who's changing jobs, who's moving in or out. See our roundup of comings and going...

Forum Column - By Diane Klein - Although allowing the expression of discriminatory housing preferences may be efficient and pr...

Focus Column - By Michael I. Katz and Adrianne Marshack - When one party accuses another of misappropriating trade secrets, th...